I’ve been asked to be part of an event to highlight some music I find worthy of highlighting at a weekend soiree in a couple weeks, and I’ve chosen to focus my “feature” on a brief period in musical history (roughly 1980’s, yet also as far back as the 1950’s and also much later — even up to and including our own “era” of music) which has been strongly influenced by cinematography and is most widely known by the rapid surge of a new format commonly referred to as the “music video”.
At the same time, I am also currently very inspired by a conversation between Alana Newhouse and Bridget Phetasy (see “Equality of Opportunity Rule” [ https://teaser.news.blog/2025/07/06/equality-of-opportunity-rule ] ) which also deeply explores a variety of aspects involved in the human behaviors related to information processing.
One of my favorite examples of this “thank you, next” principle (succinctly described by Alana Newhouse and quoted in the linked-to article above) is the web site pets.com which once had a website declared “forever dead” (or something like that) during the “dotcom bust” about a quarter of a century ago. Spoiler alert: pets.com remains alive and kicking address, apparently stronger than ever to this day (and most likely far beyond that, too).
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