When you stop and think about it, this decade has overseen a wild amount of change. Phones aren't simply for calling and texting. The internet is no longer something you access ‘on the computer’ at night after school. Jobs like ride-share driver and social media strategist exist – jobs that, if you tried to tell me about in the 00s, I would waft away as conspiracy theories.The 2010s have killed many things, my spirit among them, but what else have we lost to the sands of increasingly fast moving time? Let us take a moment to remember these fallen soldiers of culture, confined to history alongside dial-up and Patisserie Valerie.
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A: AMERICAN APPAREL
B: BOOBS
C: CATS
D: DAIRY
E: ENVIRONMENT
F: FACEBOOK
For anyone under the age of 35, Facebook died alongside the short-lived culture of taking a compact camera on every average night out and spending your hangover tagging 207 unserviceable photos of your mates holding vodka mixers at clubs called ‘Glam’ and ‘Tunnel’.
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G: GENDER
H: HIPSTERS
I: INDEPENDENT COMPANIES
J: JJB SPORTS
K: KANYE WEST
L: LIB DEMS
M: MUSIC JOURNALISM
NME went free, Lizzo and Lana Del Rey are beefing with critics on Twitter, algorithms have strangled the blogsphere and dedicated music sites have either been absorbed, stripped for parts or axed in the mass pivot to video. I’m positive the next decade will see the return of blogs and subscription-based curation, or maybe something else entirely, because if there is a future of music journalism it absolutely isn’t cover features of celebrity mates interviewing each other.
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N: NONCES
O: OWNING STUFF
P: POLITICAL SATIRE
Q: QUEEN ELIZABETH II
R: ROCK \m/
S: SEX
T: THATCHER
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