With Alanis Morrisette's recent "unplugged" version of "Jagged Little Pill" and her subsequent tour; as well as Foo Fighters' declaring "In Your Honor" a commemoration of their decade together (2-discs, ten tracks a piece, perhaps only ten worth releasing), what do you make of this emerging trend?
Personally, it shows a further distillation of the industry and the artist's within it feeble attempts at "mattering." It belies a reality that these artists are not as relevant as they were in their "glory days." The only difference between the Foos and the Morrisettes of music, is that these two are of the previous generation, not two, three, four generations ago. Its fairly customary for older artists to attempt to bestow upon themselves the air of "greatness" as a reminder of what they were, but they allowed themselves to disappear for some time, unlike today's spotlight hoggers.
So, is this just new century vanity, or are the cycles just shortening that fast where ten years is the new twenty?
― Brett Hickman (Bhickman), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)