“The constant, unforgiving churn of pop culture seems designed expressly to let the old know they’re boring and irrelevant. The carefully coded and collated cultural knowledge that defined your childhood, or even your adulthood, passes its sell-by date, and you’re left staring at some ugly Nirvana shirts, wondering vaguely whether you should put them back in the closet for another pointless decade, or just chuck them now.
The reaction to the new Kanye/McCartney collaboration seems to argue for the “chuck them now” option. As one Twitter user declared after hearing the new track: “who tf is Paul McCartney ???!?? this is why I love kanye for shining light on unknown artists.” Kanye fans, apparently, have never heard of the Beatles. Kids these days are broadly and hideously ignorant, and Western culture is doomed.” *
Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) and Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/AnaKasparian) discuss.
*Read more here from http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/01/no-one-needs-to-know-who-paul-mccartney-is/384229/