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People keep adding interesting answers to my Decade's End question, if you want to go back and look. In the meantime I've gotten another response via email, which I'm putting into the comments. The question is:

What do you think the story of the decade in music is? Or what was the story of the decade in music for you? I said "Just list one" last time, but I've kind of added a second question here in adding that "for you" bit, haven't I? So if you answered one of them last time ("what the story is") and the other ("what the story is for me" ["me" being you]) is different, you're invited to answer the second one here in the comments. (And you can comment on the last comments in these comments if you want, lj's "use-by" date being so frustratingly quick.)

Date: 2009-11-25 07:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] petronia.livejournal.com
My personal musical decade story comes down to electro, really, and the concurrent realization that canonicity/critical value in music was cyclical/mutable/debatable and not absolutist, and therefore I didn't always have to be outside of it (but me being me am never comfortable in the centre, either).

Date: 2009-11-25 09:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] skyecaptain.livejournal.com
Don't worry, my impersonal story of the decade was that there's no clear center!

Date: 2009-11-25 09:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] petronia.livejournal.com
Haha, as soon as I'd posted that I was like BUT THERE IS NO CENTRE but decided to leave it as is (because in the absence of an objective centre, wherever I subjectively locate the centre is wherever I'm uncomfortable being at any given time. XD;;).

Date: 2009-11-26 04:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] skyecaptain.livejournal.com
Yeah my phrase was "the center spreads" and another way of saying that might be "the center is a feeling," or at least "the center is contingent on our agreement of center." Which is why to me The-Dream can feel "center" without having a ton of critical or popular catchet -- he has some of both but is only truly central to a relatively small bubble.

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