Black Eyed Peas rave revivalism denies rave history rather than mourns it

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Yet, the Black Eyed Peas’ Rave-appropri-ations didn’t function so much as revivals of Rave as denials that the genre had ever happened in the first place. If Rave hasn’t yet happened, then there is no need to mourn it. We can act as if we’re experiencing all this for the first time, that the future is still ahead of us. The sadness ceases to be something we feel, and instead consists in our temporal predicament itself, and we are like Jack in the Gold Room of the Overlook Hotel, dancing to ghost songs, convincing ourselves that the music of yesteryear is really the music of today. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 465

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• XREF: The Overlook Hotel ghost-song image is the book’s central ‘disavowed hauntology’ figure, echoing The Shining where the Jack character cannot tell past from present music. — connects to: Mainstream Rave-sampling pop denies rather than laments Rave’s obsolescence. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 465
• SHARE: The Overlook’s Gold Room as a figure for the disavowed haunted present is a strong image arguably worth sharing with anyone reading cultural theory alongside film.