Popular Music Seems to Stop After Your Thirties
23.05.12
I had an interesting conversation with a friend of mine who is huge Radiohead fan. He admitted that he wasnât as fascinated with their latest album as he was with their earlier efforts. Apparently The Bends and OK Computer were okay, but Kid A and Amnesiac were phenomenal. When I asked, a la Janet Jackson, what had Radiohead done that was good lately, he had to admit that the music they had recently produced was more of the same and that it was not as good. Apparently, Radiohead had hit an impasse whereby they became boring. Or at least they had become unlistenable. They played the same old same old as pointing toward the future, but not in a way that the true fan thought they should have gone. Radiohead became literally boring.
Now, in a way I always thought Radiohead was boring in the first place, but I can relate to my friendâs frustration that this band seemed to be locked in a fixed groove. One wishes to hear oneâs favorite songwriters and musicians keep on making phenomenal music, but they and you become bored. Luckily the music machine churns out another Radiohead to replace the former. Or does it?
Source: First Things (blog)