Save this article to read it later.
Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection.
To a flurry of indignant commenters, it was mostly just outrageous.
Or: Maneskin sucks, but have you not heard Idles, Scowl, Fontaines D.C.?
At this point, the rock-is-dead conversation has become an internet ouroboros, inexhaustible and broadly unwinnable.
Whats new is retro; whats old is, for the most part, well-commodified nostalgia.
Thats generally how rent works.)
Its both a canny callback and a vaguely depressing summation: Remember these guys?
Of course you do; they invented all this, more or less.
And when youre an octogenarian, your futureis, barring some bio-hacked miracle, mostly in the rearview.
