{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Got a cultural shift question that's totally frivolous and academic. Simon Reynolds writes in the afterword to \"Rip It Up\" (his...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/675149994278502400/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>placesandevents-deactivated2023</strong> asked: <p>Got a cultural shift question that's totally frivolous and academic. Simon Reynolds writes in the afterword to \"Rip It Up\" (his book about postpunk and new wave) that he noticed in the early 2000s a shift away from 90s weed to cocaine, and an according shift in anxious, jagged popular music. What do you think the drugs of the 2020s will be? I don't love coke, but I'd be happy to get out of the 2010s xanax dissociation era.</p></div>\n<p>Yeah it was kinda cool that ecstasy was coming back as &ldquo;molly&rdquo; for a while</p>"}