> that's the stupid thing about revivals - it's very contrived, like the > recent "electro" revival of the last several years. Why the fashion and > focus on those years? To be into the music, why do people feel that they > have to dress up in the fashion of the era it was created in?
While "revivals" get caught up in nostalgia, fashion, etc.. I think the electroclash/new wave revival is in a class of it's own in this regard. Because much of the synth-punk/new-wave scene of the 80's and of today is/was about the insignificance of music (and of everything). fashion becomes sort of a punck-rock statement, and is in many ways as important as the music itself .. at least in theory .. i never gave a crap about anything besides the music, but that's why i'm a music geek instead of a scenester... I think something like acid house isn't as much entwined with any visual aesthetics or fashion (at least in the US scene, maybe different for the UK scene)- it was more about dancing than anything else.. and if an acid house revival means all the lame-asses around here will start dancing again, then bring it on :)!!!!!
