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talent and vocal quality reigned, not autotune and gimmicks. gaga reminds us that artists used to be unabashed performers and theatrical entertainers. all that retromania takes us back to a time where america was great and strong and simpler, when china wasn t about to become our boss. nostalgia, of course, is always 20/20, and these lookbacks rarely include the full complexity and true confusion of their time, except for mad men, which is a peerless show, because the workplace gender inequalities of the era are a consistent subtheme. as simmon reynolds writes, is nostalgia stopping our culture s ability to surge forward, or are we nostalgic because our culture as already stopped moving forward? i think i can answer some of your questions. i have that degree of confidence right now. bring it. so i believe that the economic incentives of the production houses to monetize
but that s not why we re right now, toure, it s because what s old is now again. last night when i was half asleep with the tv still on, in my semiconscious state, i heard an ad for a new show called the playboy club, and then there was an ad for a new show called pan am, and then a new showed charlie s angels. then i woke up with a start, i knew it was 2:00 a.m., but what decade? pop culture is dominated by nostalgia right now. television is reaching back to the 60s and 70s, not so much because of the success of the best drama on tv, madmen, but because retro is comfort food. it s not the shock of the new, it s the comfort of something you already know, and it s easier to sell. marketers will tell you it s easier to revive a dormant brand than to start a new one, and tv s taking advantage of that. retro mania reigns in pop music too, of course. lady gaga recalls not just 80s star, madonna, but also 70s stars like grace jones, elton