kontextmaschine:

Ken Ashcorp - 20 Percent Cooler

I drove my stuff up I-5 from Los Angeles back to Portland.

Coming up through the Central Valley, it seemed like half the radio stations were producer pop - which, wevs, I actually like the Max Martin/Dr. Luke stuff, but it sounded more like top 15 than top 40 and that got boring.

Up into the mountain forests and through Oregon, that half was replaced with weird and charming little local stations that would play like, all requests, or have local programming boards, or just freeform with some DJ chasing ‘70s country with dub reggae, though they were on repeaters so they changed frequencies like every valley.

The other half, in both cases, was Christian Music. Like, songs in every rock style of 2005, as competent and polished as anyone, only all about Jesus. All spun by people pushing this culture of relentless positivity and frequent quotations of the canonical text.

And I realized there that while I had originally been thinking of Harry Potter fandom, like with wizard rock and all, no, that is what pony music reminds me of.

I mean seriously, bronies-as-turning-point (missed turn?) works, listen to this and just hear how sure it was that the ‘00s (proceeding from the 90s, and from the 80s) were what the ‘10s would grow from