Connectivity and abandon and a sense of banding together but also that nothing really matters
How much does an awareness of the preceding indie era influence the development of the next? "Borrowed nostalgia for the forgotten 80s"
The music all has the "music-as-journalism" quality.
Crazy that Blaketheman1000 has literally claimed the era indirectly by making a song saying "I'm like Greta Van Fleet but for fans of Lou Reed." Like there are layers to that silly song?
"The book tries to capture this sense of chronic agitation and instability and the way that that was both incredibly traumatic and totally energizing, because it felt like all of the old rules and ways of doing things were over. As I say that it's like 'yeah, uh huh, every generation feels that way'... But this era has a special claim to that because of the technological revolution, globalization, etc... I do see some ties between this era as almost a prelude to what we are living through now, at least psychologically." - Lizzy Goodman
These era as preludes to the times we are living in now
"Make your own rules and follow them for fun." Talking about these spaces where Karen O's persona would be activated and how genres coming together in the party scene and how the gatekeepers and pretentious rockers don't actually have any power. "We did not have those rules. Those things all seem like if you like it, you like it. And they're related. The thing that I love when I play this music – it's all part of the same story, so like, who cares where it comes from?" "These symbols, the semiotics of your outsiderness were really important, because there were these firmly held boundaries between mainstream culture and whatever else – underground culture, indie culture... By the time I showed up in New York, it had disappeared somehow. Older people would be worried about these rules of music and how you like what you like. And to us, it just seemed a little quaint."
Podcasts are the new blogs?
"Podcasts and blogs have a ton in common. Because it's a way of expressing personal curiosity that is journalistic but not journalism"
"Isn't it amazing that you guys have made this thing that we all care about so much?!" Scene making sentiment