Ghosts Of My Past - The Day Pop Culture Died - Nifty129

Ghosts Of My Past - The Day Pop Culture Died

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The year is 2021 the band ICE NINE Kills released the single Hip To Be Scared, a tribute song dedicated to the film American Psycho (2000).

Initially received as a work of anti-feminist horror cinematography, it took quite some time for the film's undertones of social satire, dark comedy, and capitalist critique to rise to the surface.

What is this constant need to take pivotal cornerstones of 20th-century pop culture and reshape, recycle, and rebrand it for monetary gains?

Is there perhaps a more sinister effect on society abroad?

Time distillation as it affects us today in a post-pandemic world; that endless drifting has driven many of us to seek the comfort of anti-anxiety medication, alcohol abuse, and casual psychedelics.

You might not know that pop culture has died along with its colorful depictions of a retro-futuristic world, but your brain did and it mourns the loss.All Rights Reserved

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