New Yorkers will spend hours talking about how unique and special bodegas like other cities dont have grocery stores
this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2025
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What zero materialism does to a mf.
Also that's just not true. Before social media, Hollywood was the center of global cultural production. Nowadays it's too chaotic and individualized to have a center, but if it had one it'd be Silicon Valley.
broadway shows, woody allen films and 90s young-people-in-apartments sitcoms are what shapes global culture, actually
Musically, maybe failsons of the illuminati flying home from their Swiss boarding schools to start bands and do coke in NY dive bar bathrooms briefly after 9/11, for a couple of years anyway.
Who does that describe other than Julian Casablancas?
didn't they have some good punk/post-punk in the late 70s/early 80s. i guess that was at least a tiny bit influential on late 20th century pop culture
It's funny that the example that came to my mind was Swans! I don't know how much they affected pop culture in general but they definitely left a mark on rateyourmusic and Fantano.
I don't think Swans affected much outside of the relatively niche subgenres that are in the same orbit and I think Michael Gira would HATE IT if anyone told him his music influenced pop culture lol. They are very important for heavy music-heads though I love them
I agree with this