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Evilsmiley@sh.itjust.works 5 months agoIt’s just because history only remebers the good songs and artists. The 70’s and 80’s were full of derivative crap too but most of it got dorgotten. Theres also just more artists nowadays, so the repetitive shit is more precalent
JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I was explaining this to someone the other day who thought modern rap was all trash whereas the 90s and 2000s were all gold. I explained there are thousands of moderately successful acts from those decades we’ve just forgotten when remembering the few dozen names we call great.
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
It’s called the Survivorship Bias