Ain't That a Shame
Will today's and future generations know the difference between "British Invasion" and classic American rock bands? Will they think it matters?
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AJBaker
Friend of Leo's
'British invasion' is a category that's only really used in the US. In the UK, I don't think people ever really cared what accent musicians spoke (US bands aren't called 'American invasion') and in most other countries these are just English speaking bands, they can't tell if they're American or British.
Tonetele
Doctor of Teleocity
I feel sorry for future generations. We grew up, and saw , some of the greatest music of modern times.
I guess there might be Musical History 101 at university but that's hardly mass popularity.
I guess there might be Musical History 101 at university but that's hardly mass popularity.
Future generations will be reminiscing about the TikTok wars and the K Pop invasion days....
Cheap Trills
Tele-Afflicted
Nothing lasts, what we care about won't matter much to the next generation and even less to the next. Especially as information gets more and more saturated. "British Invasion" and "Classic American Rock" will both get thrown into a bucket called "Rock and Roll", then eventually that bucket and everything in it will get thrown into an ocean called "music of the late second millennia", then that ocean will get swallowed up by a larger ocean called "music humans listened to back on Earth and the early days of the Mars colonization", then at some point it'll all evaporate into "ways the life forms we use as batteries entertained themselves before the rise of AI and the machine expansion across the universe". Legacies and posterity are just flights of fancy, tricks to divert us from realizing futility as time passes. Play the music you play for the people around you now, that moment of enjoyment is all there really is. Nothing else matters given time, not which side of the Atlantic a band came from.
Out here in "the rest of the world" we're dealing with the American invasion of our cultures....
it's relentless...
it's relentless...
This is getting philosophical! Here is a classic rock tune that most have forgotten that expresses the same thoughts.
