Re: Why does mainstream seem more like , downstream these days?

[Todd Howell <ransacker@earthlink.net>]

A gross amount of popular culture has always been sh*t ala the Osmonds, 
Reality TV, Jersey Shore etc.......
And most great cultural movements begin in the underground or 
counter-culture. By the time they've enter the mainstream, they are 
co-opted and divested of all meaning. I can't take credit for the last 
sentence. I read Brian Eno saying something similar in some interview. All 
of the big things of tomorrow are yet to be polluted moment occuring now 
in the digital underground. I think that was the gist of B.E.'s 
statements........


-----Original Message-----
>From: andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>
>Sent: Feb 14, 2011 11:13 AM
>To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>Subject: Re: Why does mainstream seem more like , downstream these days?
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>Buzap Buzap wrote:
>> Hi all
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>> well, I don't share this opinion that mainstream is going downstream.
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>I took it to mean that it's all retro.
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>Fair comment?
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