Late-century music still feels contemporary because no new paradigm replaced it

Evidence

In the twenty-first century, cultural tastes stayed remarkably close to the post-Elvis paradigm, in which decades-old music still felt vibrant and contemporary. When Pharrell and Thicke played in the artistic conventions of Marvin Gaye’s song, it wasn’t ironic—it was the defining groove of the year. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 383

Categorization

• XREF: Pharrell and Thicke channeling Marvin Gaye without irony is a clean concrete instance of the omnivore-mono-culture thesis for the counter-argument. — connects to: Old electronic music no longer ages because the culture stopped progressing — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1237