Male pop artists who debuted in 1999
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By Nitsuh Abebe
People may talk about generations as though they proceed in some orderly parade, but it’s really more like a tug of war: Whichever age group outnumbers the others gets to pull an entire society deep into its own habits, neuroses and preoccupations. As a result, one of the best ways to understand popular culture is simply to consult a chart tracking the number of Americans born each year. Most prominent will be the huge swell of people born after World War II, who have dominated the national psyche for as long as any living person can recall. Then comes a 1970s trough, a tiny cohort of poor souls who will never dominate anything and are best known for being sardonic about it. Then comes a rally, and another peak: American adults, at the moment, have a pronounced tendency to have been born around 1990. A lot of our cultural noise these days is just the sound of a nation’s center of gravity shifting, all at once, across four entire decades — and landing
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‘60 Songs That Explain the ’90s’: Tupac Against the World
MusicMusicRob breaks down the complicated life and indelible legacy of one of the most important figures hip-hop ever produced, including his megahit “California Love”
By Rob Harvilla • 7 min
Grunge. Wu-Tang Clan. Radiohead. “Wonderwall.” The music of the ’90s was as exciting as it was diverse. But what does it say about the era—and why does it still matter? On our show 60 Songs That Explain the ’90s,Ringer music writer and ’90s survivor Rob Harvilla embarks on a quest to answer those questions, one track at a time. Follow and listen for free exclusively on Spotify. In Episode 58, we’re breaking down Tupac Shakur and his megahit “California Love.”
So, listen. I have dreaded the Tupac episode of this show for a year. For a calendar year. The weight of it—the emotional, the biographical weight of it. The towering monolith of excellent preexisting Tupac scholarship. Tupac is arguably the most photographed barn in America, while we’re getting all literary. That’s pretentious. One of the most famous, t
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Paul Lester
Paul Lester has been Features Editor of Melody Maker and Deputy Editor of Uncut. He went freelance in January 2007. Since then he has written books on Gang Of Four and Wire, and interviewed over 200 musicians (plus a few authors and actors) for the Guardian, the Sunday Times Culture section, Telegraph Arts & Books, the Mail On Sunday Live Night & Day, the Daily Express, Record Collector, the Scotsman and the Jewish Chronicle. He also writes reviews for Q, composes the Guardian's daily Critics' Picks and has introduced more than 530 new acts via his Guardian online New Band Of The Day feature. He is currently writing a book on Pink.
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