"Dr. Dre is 47 years old, Snoop is 40, and Hologram Tupac is forever 25. Hip-hop may have finally aged into an era of Oldies Revues—lavish and ludicrously expensive Oldies Revues, but Oldies Revues nonetheless—and Hologram Tupac stands as a marker of faux vitality, a callback to glory days, a nod to a crowd geeked on nostalgic sentiment. Seen in this light, Hologram Tupac starts to feel crass and exploitative, a mutually agreed-upon sham between performer and audience, the high-tech evolution of the Elvis impersonator."
Jack Hamilton at The Atlantic ponders the emergence of "Hologram Tupac."
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Famous Cause We Program
Labels:
1990s,
2010s,
cultural history,
music,
sociology,
technology
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