10 years on I still feel not a shred of inspiration from 80's nostalgia. Somehow they brought back only the most boring parts that just make me feel like a kid again and not in a good way. https://twitter.com/caroline_f0ley/status/1326946512732123136

It's telling that the actually interesting art and music from the 80's, produced almost exclusively by the Black and Gay communities, was not included in this embarrassingly immature revival, yet contemporary Black and Gay culture progressed through the 2010s at near light speed

I do love the guy and I hate to pull the "man card" at Fisher, but could we really have imagined Arca or Sophie even at the height of IDM? Imagine showing Tupac or Pete Rock Long-Live-A$AP back in the 90s. They'd have lost their minds. https://twitter.com/criticalfaerie/status/1326948699621126144?s=20

Again I don't think it's even his fault but instead a sadly prescient observation of cultural hegemony that despite his upbringing in the watershed moment of Jungle he couldn't see past the stagnancy of the white and straight culture of his time.

Such was the pitfall of "exiting the vampire castle". He was right to disparage garage-rock revival in the Arctic Monkeys and Amy Whinehouse's veritable quantum superposition of "neo soul": a white woman reworking white women from the 60's covering black women from the 50's

(See also: Lana del Rey) but what he missed was that these are the last gasps of a dying hegemony of whiteness and straightness that goes back to Marty McFly "inventing" Rock & Roll and continually fails again and again to keep up with genuinely creative minorities.