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05-27-2007, 10:00 AM
Hasn't hip-hop culture always appropriated fashion ideas from other subcultures anyway, kinda like fashion "sampling?" I'm thinking of Outkast here.
I can't keep all the genres straight anymore, which makes me feel old. It seems to me that prom queens and jock dudes and class presidents have green hair and spike jewelry with some regularity these days, and it's not because mainstream high school culture has embraced actual "freakiness." It's more like it's an acceptably "cool" way to look. It seems like a hopelessly retro idea to me for someone to insist on consistency between look and ideology.
I kinda think the younger kids now are an I-Pod generation in more ways than one. It's like the Led Zeppelin song comes on, then it's Biggie, then it's some like Arctic Monkeys, and then it's vintage Paula Abdul that they think is funny because they weren't actually fifth graders when it came out, and then it's Leadbelly... and they like all of them equally... etc... and the clothes/hairstyles/looks reflect this eclecticism. And... they really do seem a lot happier than people my age (26) did when we were their age... generally speaking.
This girl sounds like she's bitter that there's no shock value in being "counterculture" anymore. As though being a stripper in the first place weren't "counterculture" enough.
This stuff really interests me, thanks for the thread.
I can't keep all the genres straight anymore, which makes me feel old. It seems to me that prom queens and jock dudes and class presidents have green hair and spike jewelry with some regularity these days, and it's not because mainstream high school culture has embraced actual "freakiness." It's more like it's an acceptably "cool" way to look. It seems like a hopelessly retro idea to me for someone to insist on consistency between look and ideology.
I kinda think the younger kids now are an I-Pod generation in more ways than one. It's like the Led Zeppelin song comes on, then it's Biggie, then it's some like Arctic Monkeys, and then it's vintage Paula Abdul that they think is funny because they weren't actually fifth graders when it came out, and then it's Leadbelly... and they like all of them equally... etc... and the clothes/hairstyles/looks reflect this eclecticism. And... they really do seem a lot happier than people my age (26) did when we were their age... generally speaking.
This girl sounds like she's bitter that there's no shock value in being "counterculture" anymore. As though being a stripper in the first place weren't "counterculture" enough.
This stuff really interests me, thanks for the thread.