{"id":29159,"date":"2024-12-26T12:10:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T12:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/26\/the-2010s-are-glorified-by-gen-z-but-the-indie-music-of-that-era-was-unoriginal-jamie-peck\/"},"modified":"2024-12-26T12:10:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T12:10:21","slug":"the-2010s-are-glorified-by-gen-z-but-the-indie-music-of-that-era-was-unoriginal-jamie-peck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/26\/the-2010s-are-glorified-by-gen-z-but-the-indie-music-of-that-era-was-unoriginal-jamie-peck\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2010s are glorified by gen Z. But the \u2018indie music\u2019 of that era was unoriginal | Jamie Peck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So much of early 2000s \u2018indie\u2019 music was nothing but a backward-looking rerun of movements past<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve probably noticed it by now: the smeared makeup in fashion editorials, the \u201cmessy girl\u201d style of gen Z celebrities like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/olivia-rodrigo\">Olivia Rodrigo<\/a>, and the dance-y, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/lcd-soundsystem\">LCD Soundsystem<\/a>-esque sound of artists like the Dare and \u2026 well, LCD Soundsystem, whose reunited lineup seems to be playing shows every night now.<\/p>\n<p>The no-longer-so-niche pop star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/charli-xcx\">Charli xcx<\/a> further foregrounded it with her breakout hit Brat<em> <\/em>this past summer, an album whose inescapable promotional cycle improbably combined an embrace by the Harris\/Walz presidential campaign \u2013 cue Jake Tapper trying to explain \u201cbrat summer\u201d to your parents \u2013 and a birthday party photographed by none other than aughts-era shutter bug the Cobrasnake in his trademark high-flash, low-res style.<\/p>\n<p>Each artist \u2026 fits the mold of a bygone trope. Ryan Adams was the self-professed \u2018wannabe beat poet guy,\u2019 fitting the chain-smoking mold of folk predecessors like Bob Dylan; LCD Soundsystem saw James Murphy fusing rock sounds with electronic elements as had been covered ad nauseum [sic] through the 80s; and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs\u2019 Karen O rocked the costume-heavy art-punk done 20 years prior by Wendy O and the Plasmatics.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/dec\/26\/2010s-indie-sleeze-music-culture\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So much of early 2000s \u2018indie\u2019 music was nothing but a backward-looking rerun of movements past You\u2019ve probably noticed it by now: the smeared makeup in fashion editorials, the \u201cmessy girl\u201d style of gen Z celebrities like Olivia Rodrigo, and the dance-y, LCD Soundsystem-esque sound of artists like the Dare and \u2026 well, LCD Soundsystem, &#8230; <a title=\"The 2010s are glorified by gen Z. But the \u2018indie music\u2019 of that era was unoriginal | Jamie Peck\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/26\/the-2010s-are-glorified-by-gen-z-but-the-indie-music-of-that-era-was-unoriginal-jamie-peck\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The 2010s are glorified by gen Z. But the \u2018indie music\u2019 of that era was unoriginal | Jamie Peck\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}