The nostalgia boom is getting Ludacris (and ridiculous).
Faces from the past are infecting concerts, festivals, charts and streaming services.
“Where is this going?” asked Jack Tame.
“How is this going to affect musical trends?” he queried.
“Will this change what we listen to?”
In May of 2020, I joined Tame on his Saturday morning radio show in the middle of lockdown, phoning in from my bedroom. The topic was Charli XCX’s excellently abrasive, nihilistic, insular album How I’m Feeling Now.
That …
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