Recycled media
At a certain point, everything old is new again.
Take flannel for instance. There are days it feels like the 90s never went away, but rather hibernated for a decade so as to avoid Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys and the overall pop uprising against the grunge movement.
It happens everywhere (Avatar didn’t win the Best Picture Oscar this year as a result of Avatar winning Best Picture in 1991 when it wasn’t in 3-D and they called it Dances With Wolves).
But rather than bore you with detailed analysis of our need to recycle themes and ideas in media, I’ll leave you with a song.
This has been stuck in my head in some form or other for several days. I was having dinner and the Doctor Who theme song started blasting on the stereo. Only it wasn’t really the theme from Doctor Who. It was “Uprising,” the first single off Muse’s 2009 album The Resistance.
The videos are below. Listen and enjoy, and like me, hope that Muse are just a bunch of sci-fi geeks who share an affinity for a long-running British television series.
Muse:
Dr. Who (Tom Baker era):
Dr Who (current generation):
That’s some wicked synth, boys.
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