![]() ![]() ![]() If anything, these new musicians are doing the work that those unrealistic optimists have failed at over and over by revealing just how dark and Satanic classic genres like swing and country could be, these modern-day blasphemers are drawing in skeptical listeners who would've never tuned in otherwise. The past decade as seen the rise of several blasphemous artists celebrating these outdated musical modes, and this time around leaning hard on the sinister underpinnings that historians have long sought to wipe out. Thankfully, not all of your grandfather's favourite music is lost to the rose-tinted glasses of the good ol' days. ![]() But we know better – even before rock was invented, musicians were always sinners and psychos, finding inspiration in the forms of bad living and emotional breakdowns. ![]() And one of the tools that's always used to push this concept is the soundtrack of that bygone era, with nostalgic puritans pointing out how music used to be all about having a good time at the hop with your sweetheart of some such bullshit. Corporations and politicians will sell you the idea that things were simpler, sweeter, and more innocent in the time before cell phones, as though the 1950s wasn't a war-paranoid era of repression and hideous primary colours. There's no such thing as the good old days. ![]()
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