I cannot stop watching Postmodern Jukebox make Jazzy, Duwap, and big band vintage remakes of modern pop songs.
I really like the music and aesthetics of the 1920s and 30s, and to a lesser extant the 40s, 50s, and 60s. I am nostalgic for times long before I was born.
For parts of the past. I realize that not everything in the past decades was peaches and cream.
In the 1920s there was an unprecedented world wide pandemic. In the 1930s there was rampant unemployment and the rise of authoritarian leaders around the world. All these decades had civil unrest due to systemic racism.
All these decades had generational divides as sexual norms changed at an unprecedented pace.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the free world was in a Cold War with a belligerent hostile communist nation that didn't play by the rules or care about basic ethics and armed with nuclear weapons.
Also, radio was a new medium in the 1920s and television was a new medium in the 1950s. Society was coping with upheaval from rapid advancements in technological media but unfortunately it led to a small number of media companies dominating the news people heard.
But we live in better times now and all of these problems have been solved long ago...
EDIT: I'm not a big fan of the Friends show, but this video showcases the awesomeness of Postmodern Jukebox's range and stylistic flair.
