That there hasn’t been an interesting mainstream trend in guitar-based rock music for the last 20-25 years or so doesn’t help things. As Alpha Hammer was fond of pointing out, the Strokes now look like a blip on the radar rather than that whole neo-garage trend being something people bring up the way they bring up grunge destroying hair metal in 1992.

It gets worse–the big technological changes seem to all concern AI. It’s enough to make even sadder for the days of 2017 when we were all stupid enough to believe Elon Musk was going to be mining asteroids, landing on Mars and stopping climate change, rather than turning into one of the biggest assholes to ever live. I can think of big changes between now and then, but since you picked 2006, which was when social media was here to stay, and 2007 when smartphones were here to stay....nah.

But I do tend to agree with you about comparing decade-long changes and with the article about enshittification (and no, I don’t feel like I need to read the whole thing.)

I always crack up thinking about how American Graffiti was shot a measly nine years after the time it was getting all nostalgic for. Dazed And Confused, 16 years (1976-92.)