“We remember the decade a little differently—not with poptimist lenses or with whatever beer goggles make you think Kid A isn’t boring, but with cold, hard, honest eyes that see the last 10 years as an irredeemable shitpile that makes disco’s final cokefarts look like Woodstock.”
Well, if you’re going to be like that … go right ahead!
It does seem a little reductive to look at it that way, but certainly not irrefutably so. Maybe with time and distance this decade will seem different…the 80s kinda sucked too, but now they’re looked at much more favorably, as the 80s influence on this decade was huge…oh but wait, maybe that explains it somewhat. anyway, the Bush & Bullshit Era!
They do get points for mentioning dubstep in the first paragraph; I dunno if I’d call it an “inescapable culturlol trend” though, pfft.
