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# If you scrap the bottom of the barrel
everything will fall out
(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Mon 15 Dec 2008, 13:11, archived)
# aaaargh
*kills self*

I mean wtf is going on with popular culture right now? Old bands reforming at an alarming rate, every film's a remake, new singers shamelessly ripping off motown etc..

Have we all just run out of ideas?
(I helped save b3ta! Finite "Aardvark sorted out my shit!" on, Mon 15 Dec 2008, 13:13, archived)
# I don't think we've run out of ideas, per se
just that it's cheaper and easier to rehash an old idea than to dream up something original.
(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Mon 15 Dec 2008, 13:14, archived)
# Its the public's fault
The media industries give us what we (the public generally) want.

If people stopped going to see remakes...
If people stopped buying shit recods...
If people stopped buying tickets to see Take That...

(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Mon 15 Dec 2008, 13:15, archived)
# true
but the public want what the public get, by and large. Entertainment corporations could drag them off in some other direction if they so choose.

I suppose remaking is the cheaper, financially safer option.
(I helped save b3ta! Finite "Aardvark sorted out my shit!" on, Mon 15 Dec 2008, 13:38, archived)
# I am not sure what to say now?
(I helped save b3ta! Wobbly Bloke Hello, did I miss anything on, Mon 15 Dec 2008, 13:15, archived)
# google for a reply
(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Mon 15 Dec 2008, 13:18, archived)
# Nope... That did not help...

I Googled "For a Reply"
(I helped save b3ta! Wobbly Bloke Hello, did I miss anything on, Mon 15 Dec 2008, 13:25, archived)
# I am not sure what to say now
(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Mon 15 Dec 2008, 13:28, archived)
# I'm not convinced there was a golden age of original material.
When was that?
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Mon 15 Dec 2008, 13:21, archived)
# well everything is based on something else
which is how ideas progress, and it's always been the case. But now we seem to have switched to literally remaking bland versions of past culture rather than improving it in any way.

Meh, maybe I'm just getting old :)
(I helped save b3ta! Finite "Aardvark sorted out my shit!" on, Mon 15 Dec 2008, 13:34, archived)