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I don't know what festivals you go to but the lineup of the ones we go to changes every year.

Lola Young, Ezra Collective... it's not difficult to see behind the crowd-pleasing (for some) headliners.

The Ministry of Information approved version?

There are thousands of acts at Glastonbury - so many stages now. It's still a really important part of the UK festival scene, with many new bands to seek out there as well as in smaller festivals which are also ace.

Don't you want another reboot of batman?

You can't really say the line-up at Glastonbury hasn't changed. A lot.

Culture is so boring, so politics has to fill the gap.

Pop has eaten itself.

Well she's a generation below Pulp, but I'm too out of it these days to know about the spotty adolescents at the bleeding edge of things in the generation below.

It's as if everything in 21st century pop culture is a variation on a theme & that theme is 1998.

That's been going on for centuries though. Look at that Mozart guy - keeps making a comeback, and has done for hundreds of years.

retromancer is an amazing word

Young audiences follow & subscribe to flows of entertainment media, trickle-funding them into stardom. The 'Old man, Old Band' crew want tangible artefacts that are recognisable & "shelf-worthy" or direct experiences that are pre-curated, comfortable & often hedge-funded, so everyone's a winner 😬🍿

Unfortunately.

Pulp are ALWAYS good. But also look at that entire lineup!

I came here to say this

He’ll get used to it…

Well, the fact your culture becomes hegemonic is surely the upside of approaching middle age. It’s your music in the pub, at the festival, etc. But while Pulp obvs ubiquitous because they’re great the rest of the cultural freeze feels like stagnation…

Pretty much on point with the analysis.

Which Civic does Pulp represent?

The big question is then whether we're in Alpha Centauri or Graveyard Keeper.

Exactly! And generally people saying there’s nothing new are just getting old and have shut their ears to anything new

Semi-permaculture. Things change, they always do.

After another brainless scroll through Facebook, I think nostalgia and the permanent availability of the past, when we were young and beautiful, our loved ones were still here, and the future was spread before us, is stunting our development and feeding nationalism and conservatism. We can't move on

Not sure this is true, at least with glasto this year. 2/3 of the pyramid and other stage headliners are doing so for the first time. I'm here and there is loads of new music drawing big crowds. Most people don't listen to much new music though, so only recognise the old names like Pulp and Rod.

Hankering for reminders, even repeats, of the past is culturally an entirely rational response to the doomladen menace of everything now accurately described as novel. At this AI-driven, for-the-few-not-the-many, planetary ruinous, rate we may soon be at the nadir, if not the end, of human history.

Agree to your point to an extent in regard to the mainstream, however there is so much new and exciting in film, TV and music if you just look below the surface. It's just not being served to us as readily as the things you're likely referencing.

Honestly you could probably write a sociology PHD on this trend.

This is why we need to invest in youth clubs and free arts education. Otherwise it's just poshos churning out algorithm approved dross. People don't know what they want until you give it to them.

Shepton Mallet put me off for life. Love the music: hate camping.

My dream of being in a mid-00s indie band is alive then!

Court battles are being fought over issues that we thought were settled 1, 2, 3 decades ago and more.