Comment on Stranger Than Heaven will explore Tupac's "potential future" if "he was still alive now", according to RGG studio head

AnchoriteMagus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Also we can look at his contemporaries to see what will happen. Eventually his music will become mainstream as the youth that were accepting of it aged into adulthood and societal values shifted forward. He’d make a decent amount of money, likely start his own record label, potentially act in a few movies or make cameo appearances. He’ll probably have had kids, gone through a soft phase where he realizes he can’t share his work with them, potentially be a regular character in children’s media to compensate or release an album that’s far outside his niche that fans will dislike but will be well received by the wider audience.

  By now he’ll be 55 and while he’ll have done a sizeable amount of effort to curate his PR it will be shown that he regularly endorses Republican candidates because the benefits they offer to his current lifestyle trump the negatives they deliver to everyone currently experiencing the problems that made his music resonate.

  I literally can’t think of any counter culture creator that survived and didn’t go down this pipeline.

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  • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You’re probably right in your prediction but there’s plenty of counterculture artists who didn’t go down that path.

    There’s a whole wiki page of artists who have spoken out against Trump specifically for using their music

    It’s notable when a respected artist flips. It’s not newsworthy when one speaks out against MAGA and it’s even less newsworthy when they don’t make a public statement

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