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' But daddy I love him ' played on radio 1 today !! Wish the radio presenters wouldn't keep going on abt matt healy . It's her song please don't overshadow that .
over the past few days ive been hit with an odd wave of nostalgia for the period of time in the uk when i was a teen and pre-teen (about 2005-2013). i had an awful time as a teenager and didn’t really partake in anything going on around me, which is maybe why I’m reminiscing. I’m even fondly remembering stuff that I thought was utter crap at the time. The era I mean is the indie rock/emo/myspace/bebo era. I wasn’t that active online and I didn’t even really like the pop and indie in the charts at the time, I took it totally for granted. It was just background noise to me, but now that the background noise is so different, I feel really nostalgic for that time. All the home-grown pop culture is totally gone. It’s a kaleidoscope in my head of Alexa Chung, the Arctic Monkeys, Amy Winehouse, The View (never huge but I LOVED them and still do), Radio 1, Topshop, Mulberry (in my dreams), cheap club nights, cigarette smoke everywhere, too much eyeliner, fringes, brogues, floral prints, lots of leather jackets for some reason… the general vibe of that era is impossible to put into words accurately, as I’m relying on my own personal muddled perception. I think about Christmas colours (red, green, brown, deep purple, silver and gold), florals, leather, faux fur, wool… in my mid-teens charity shops had a renaissance and got rid of the emo-ish vibe and opened up the style possibilities a bit more… it was the antithesis of the horrible Instagram aesthetic that followed afterwards (American-led, porn-influenced, drag queen makeup, beige and greige everywhere). This is not meant to be an America Bad post, but I’ve never liked American style, aesthetics or values and they’re totally impossible to get away from now. I despise glossy shit; I want the rougher, more creative Britain back, but I know it’s never going to happen. American influence sucks all the vitality out of everywhere else creatively.
I have no conclusion to this post; just trying to marshal my thoughts.