Still. Considering Bey's stuff has improved without Kelly and Michelle (as has Kelly's, though she had to climb a bit higher; Michelle kinda just flew off from pop) I'd say that they might have just needed to hoof it solo from the get go.
Then again, not old enough to have remembered everything they put out, only their last two DC albums.
I mean, some of her stuff is terrible, and she tends to come back to the same topics, but she has enough decent songs and she's a better role model than a lot of celebrities.
Still. Considering Bey's stuff has improved without Kelly and Michelle (as has Kelly's, though she had to climb a bit higher; Michelle kinda just flew off from pop) I'd say that they might have just needed to hoof it solo from the get go.
Then again, not old enough to have remembered everything they put out, only their last two DC albums.
I'm not going to tell you that you shouldn't like them.
When I was 8, NOT OLD - TWO DECADES AGO, I remember playing OUTSIDE with FRIENDS sometimes on FARMS and chasing HORSES, then being chased by horses, then chasing COWS, then being chased by cows. I also faintly remember roller-blades, Sharky and George Cartoons, Skateboards and Mortal Kombat for the Sega Mega Drive and some dinosaur fighting game.
When I was 8, NOT OLD - TWO DECADES AGO, I remember playing OUTSIDE with FRIENDS sometimes on FARMS and chasing HORSES, then being chased by horses, then chasing COWS, then being chased by cows. I also faintly remember roller-blades, Sharky and George Cartoons, Skateboards and Mortal Kombat for the Sega Mega Drive and some dinosaur fighting game.
We went to the store with a milk pail and had milk poured into it before returning it home. We exchanged goods for food and drank from wooden mugs.
"It is a matter of grave importance that Fairy tales should be respected.... Whosoever alters them to suit his own opinions, whatever they are, is guilty, to our thinking, of an act of presumption, and appropriates to himself what does not belong to him." -- Charles Dickens
When I was 8, NOT OLD - TWO DECADES AGO, I remember playing OUTSIDE with FRIENDS sometimes on FARMS and chasing HORSES, then being chased by horses, then chasing COWS, then being chased by cows. I also faintly remember roller-blades, Sharky and George Cartoons, Skateboards and Mortal Kombat for the Sega Mega Drive and some dinosaur fighting game.
Aw, I wish I'd grown up on a farm. Mostly I played with friends in our long (380'), narrow backyard.
Oh, and that video game was Primal Rage: With a T. rex named Sauron and another named Gandalf Diablo who attacked with fire.
Fifteen years is probably around the point where things cease to become dated and become the object of nostalgia. Then they become historical events around the 70 years mark.
Note that this is a bullshit rule that I just made up.
Y'know, things really haven't changed much since 2000.
Big-name games are still all 3D. The Republican Party is still aiming to outconservative itself and wreck the U.S. political system in the process. Too many consumer goods are still made of intended-to-be-disposable plastic, or presented in disposable plastic containers. The U.S. still hasn't joined any major international agreement regarding climate change mitigation commitments. Middle East geopolitics is still confusing as twice hell. I still have to jump through hoops to buy games without my parents knowing about it. And I'm still going to a school whose colors are green and gold.
More stuff that's still the same: I'm not interested in any TV shows except for the news and anime. (Almost...I've since developed a taste for Law & Order.) I possess very few fan-memorabilia items, but treasure them. I still feel nostalgia for when the world was a simpler place and all I had to worry about was waking up in time to catch the entire episode of Pokémon.
Democratic party president elected for two successive terms, Tea Party moving into political relevance.
Growing green/environmentalist movement.
In Middle Eastern politics, numerous changes to leadership, popular uprisings and changes in Western involvement.
GMH presumably buying different games and attending a different school after all this time (?)
Declining interest in pop punk, post-punk, crunk, metalcore and R&B, increased popularity of electropop, folk rock, country, dubstep and trance. Growing international interest in K-pop and J-pop.
Digital switchover. Greater interest in 3D television. Reality TV boom experiencing fatigue, increase in mainstream science fiction. Growing intersection of Internet and television.
End of the world now almost a full 12 years closer.
Global increase in boobs proportional to population growth.
Horrific Vista upgrade issues. Growing mainstream adoption of open source operating systems probably not unrelated.
And the world was never simple, you just got older.
That is true, and the quality of 3D graphics has improved significantly.
Democratic party president elected for two successive terms, Tea Party moving into political relevance.
Very true. A period of Republican dominance followed by rising hopes for the Dems. Also, an increasingly polarized electorate, as the Repubs double down on the crazy.
Growing green/environmentalist movement.
Perhaps more importantly, weather- and climate-based natural disasters are occurring more frequently.
In Middle Eastern politics, numerous changes to leadership, popular uprisings and changes in Western involvement.
Definitely very true, and I admit to picking my words intentionally to get around that.
GMH presumably buying different games and attending a different school after all this time (?)
Yes; it's just a coincidence that my current school has the same school colors. (Or is it?)
Declining interest in pop punk, post-punk, crunk, metalcore and R&B, increased popularity of electropop, folk rock, country, dubstep and trance. Growing international interest in K-pop and J-pop.
I was at an anime con recently and trying to find a J-pop stall. Someone commented that it was all the rage a few years ago but now it's died down, and K-pop is all the rage (there was a huge K-pop stall and only a tiny J-pop stall). I blame PSY and Gangnam Style.
Digital switchover. Greater interest in 3D television. Reality TV boom experiencing fatigue, increase in mainstream science fiction. Growing intersection of Internet and television.
I don't watch television, and I am not wealthy enough of a consumer to care about 3D television. Or even care about HD. So this actually had little relevance to me. On the other hand, I was definitely not much of an anime fan in 2000. I was vaguely curious what the "Japanese Culture Society" at my high school was all about, and I picked up a MIDI of Misato's theme from Evangelion from their website, without knowing what it was. The accompanying picture was of Asuka so I thought it was Asuka's theme, lol.
Oh yeah, that's another difference. I didn't know of digital music formats other than MIDI, back then. Then I discovered mp3s, and later, emulator music formats for videogame music.
End of the world now almost a full 12 years closer.
Twenty more days, man. Twenty more days.
Global increase in boobs proportional to population growth.
Horrific Vista upgrade issues. Growing mainstream adoption of open source operating systems probably not unrelated.
And Windows 8 seems to be repeating history by being suck once again.
> And the world was never simple, you just got older.
I actually said that in 2000 I was feeling the same sort of nostalgia.
I was at an anime con recently and trying to find a J-pop stall. Someone commented that it was all the rage a few years ago but now it's died down, and K-pop is all the rage (there was a huge K-pop stall and only a tiny J-pop stall). I blame PSY and Gangnam Style.
You're probably right. I was talking more about the general trend, though; there has definitely been a growing interest in K-pop and J-pop over the last decade or so.
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> and still like Beyonce
Still. Considering Bey's stuff has improved without Kelly and Michelle (as has Kelly's, though she had to climb a bit higher; Michelle kinda just flew off from pop) I'd say that they might have just needed to hoof it solo from the get go.
Then again, not old enough to have remembered everything they put out, only their last two DC albums.
I mean, some of her stuff is terrible, and she tends to come back to the same topics, but she has enough decent songs and she's a better role model than a lot of celebrities.
Besides, I like Ke$ha, I'm not allowed to seriously discuss music. :P
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i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Oh, and that video game was Primal Rage: With a T. rex named Sauron and another named Gandalf Diablo who attacked with fire.
Note that this is a bullshit rule that I just made up.
Big-name games are still all 3D.
The Republican Party is still aiming to outconservative itself and wreck the U.S. political system in the process.
Too many consumer goods are still made of intended-to-be-disposable plastic, or presented in disposable plastic containers.
The U.S. still hasn't joined any major international agreement regarding climate change mitigation commitments.
Middle East geopolitics is still confusing as twice hell.
I still have to jump through hoops to buy games without my parents knowing about it.
And I'm still going to a school whose colors are green and gold.
pop music sucks
TV sucks
the end of the world is constantly predicted
boobs are great
windows sucks
More stuff that's still the same:
I'm not interested in any TV shows except for the news and anime. (Almost...I've since developed a taste for Law & Order.)
I possess very few fan-memorabilia items, but treasure them.
I still feel nostalgia for when the world was a simpler place and all I had to worry about was waking up in time to catch the entire episode of Pokémon.
- Significant advances in 3D graphics technology.
- Democratic party president elected for two successive terms, Tea Party moving into political relevance.
- Growing green/environmentalist movement.
- In Middle Eastern politics, numerous changes to leadership, popular uprisings and changes in Western involvement.
- GMH presumably buying different games and attending a different school after all this time (?)
- Declining interest in pop punk, post-punk, crunk, metalcore and R&B, increased popularity of electropop, folk rock, country, dubstep and trance. Growing international interest in K-pop and J-pop.
- Digital switchover. Greater interest in 3D television. Reality TV boom experiencing fatigue, increase in mainstream science fiction. Growing intersection of Internet and television.
- End of the world now almost a full 12 years closer.
- Global increase in boobs proportional to population growth.
- Horrific Vista upgrade issues. Growing mainstream adoption of open source operating systems probably not unrelated.
And the world was never simple, you just got older.That is true, and the quality of 3D graphics has improved significantly.
Very true. A period of Republican dominance followed by rising hopes
for the Dems. Also, an increasingly polarized electorate, as the
Repubs double down on the crazy.
Perhaps more importantly, weather- and climate-based natural disasters are occurring more frequently.
Definitely very true, and I admit to picking my words intentionally to get around that.
Yes; it's just a coincidence that my current school has the same school colors. (Or is it?)
interest in pop punk, post-punk, crunk, metalcore and R&B,
increased popularity of electropop, folk rock, country, dubstep and
trance. Growing international interest in K-pop and J-pop.
I was at an anime con recently and trying to find a J-pop stall.
Someone commented that it was all the rage a few years ago but now it's
died down, and K-pop is all the rage (there was a huge K-pop stall and
only a tiny J-pop stall). I blame PSY and Gangnam Style.
switchover. Greater interest in 3D television. Reality TV boom
experiencing fatigue, increase in mainstream science fiction. Growing
intersection of Internet and television.
I don't watch television, and I am not wealthy enough of a consumer
to care about 3D television. Or even care about HD. So this actually
had little relevance to me. On the other hand, I was definitely not
much of an anime fan in 2000. I was vaguely curious what the "Japanese
Culture Society" at my high school was all about, and I picked up a MIDI
of Misato's theme from Evangelion from their website, without knowing
what it was. The accompanying picture was of Asuka so I thought it was
Asuka's theme, lol.
Oh yeah, that's another difference. I didn't know of digital music
formats other than MIDI, back then. Then I discovered mp3s, and later,
emulator music formats for videogame music.
Twenty more days, man. Twenty more days.
- Horrific Vista upgrade issues. Growing mainstream adoption of open source operating systems probably not unrelated.
And Windows 8 seems to be repeating history by being suck once again.> And the world was never simple, you just got older.
I actually said that in 2000 I was feeling the same sort of nostalgia.
*raises anti-facepalm shields*