A point less a point

It's pretty obvious that increasing mass of media kills off music styles pretty quickly. Some new kind of music emerges, everyone gets excited, and the deluge of knock-offs and hype gets so overwhelming so quickly, and then almost immediately the music becomes cliche and uncool and all the pioneers swear off the label, all before it even had a chance to develop (see: Ladytron, Electroclash and). It just seems a shame sometimes.

But then this morning, I was listening to the Franz Ferdinand album (thanks, Christian!), and it struck me that mass media, while giving styles of music an initially short life, it also means that it never truly dies. It just becomes unfashionable for a while and then somewhere, someone picks up an album and the whole thing starts over again. The same thing goes for Ladytron, even...maybe Electroclash will be reborn 10-15 years from now as something even better, just as Ladytron reinvented electronic pop from the early 80's almost 20 years later.

And thus ends my ridiculously obvious point of the day.