Discussion History Main / CondemnedByHistory

Deleted the entry on hip-hop/rap, for the same reason given by others above me for deleting examples -- it simply hasn\\\'t been hit with the massive backlash necessary for this trope. If it was really DeaderThanDisco, then not only would most of us hate modern rap, but we\\\'d remember the great rappers of TheEighties and TheNineties -- Run-DMC, the BeastieBoys, PublicEnemy, [[TheNotoriousBIG Biggie]], [[TupacShakur 2pac]], the guys from [=~N.W.A.~=] -- the same way that we remember, say, MCHammer or VanillaIce. That, or we\\\'d have forgotten about them like most of the \\\"new jack swing\\\" artists of the early \\\'90s. But we don\\\'t, so while \\\"traditional\\\" rap music may be dead in terms of mass appeal, it\\\'s still fondly remembered. It\\\'s like saying that \\\"traditional\\\" RockAndRoll from [[TheFifties the \\\'50s]] ({{Elvis|Presley}}, LittleRichard) is DeaderThanDisco because it doesn\\\'t have mass appeal anymore and everybody listens to [[HeavyMetal metal]] or {{punk|Rock}}. It seems to me that this was more complaining about changing trends in rap than anything else.

Also thinking about cutting the entries on \\\'\\\'{{Ally McBeal}}\\\'\\\' and \\\'\\\'This Life\\\'\\\'. The former even admits that it never went from all-popular to all-hated, and that it simply faded into obscurity. Should I?

Deleted the entry on hip-hop/rap, for the same reason given by others above me for deleting examples -- it simply hasn\\\'t been hit with the massive backlash necessary for this trope. If it was really DeaderThanDisco, then not only would most of us hate modern rap, but we\\\'d remember the great rappers of TheEighties and TheNineties -- Run-DMC, the BeastieBoys, PublicEnemy, [[TheNotoriousBIG Biggie]], [[TupacShakur 2pac]], the guys from [=~N.W.A.~=] -- the same way that we remember, say, MCHammer or VanillaIce. But we don\\\'t, so while \\\"traditional\\\" rap music may be dead in terms of mass appeal, it\\\'s still fondly remembered. It\\\'s like saying that \\\"traditional\\\" RockAndRoll from [[TheFifties the \\\'50s]] is DeaderThanDisco because it doesn\\\'t have mass appeal anymore and everybody listens to metal or punk. It seems to me that this was more complaining about changing trends in rap than anything else.

Also thinking about cutting the entries on \\\'\\\'{{Ally McBeal}}\\\'\\\' and \\\'\\\'This Life\\\'\\\'. The former even admits that it never went from all-popular to all-hated, and that it simply faded into obscurity. Should I?