Gapingvoid Culture Design Group’s Post

Artists like to reinvent themselves. It’s what they do. Compare the Beatles’ music and the way they dressed between the early 1960s versus 1970. Or how David Bowie changed his musical direction, his look and even his persona every couple of years like clockwork. Ditto peak Madonna. And we saw it again recently at Coachella, with Justin Bieber headlining via a stripped down, minimalist, almost austere performance, devoid of all the teenybop razzle dazzle of his earlier career. The big story turned out to be not so much about Justin’s appearance per se, but people’s reaction to it. It was very mixed. Some fans loved it, some fans just scratched their heads. Both are reacting to the current culture. Culture is organic, it’s a living thing. It must regenerate itself, or it dies. Read on: https://bit.ly/4cTjMsG #gapingvoid