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Another thing that would be difficult to explain: Auto-Tune and "musicians" like Skrillex and Beiber. My own mother thought Cobain and "grunge" was a bunch of noise, so imagine what people frozen in time in the era of Chuck Berry and Elvis would think of music today!
Bieber, what was Frankie Avalon, Deon, and Paul Petersen?
Bieber, what was Frankie Avalon, Deon, and Paul Petersen?
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In all seriousness, they were the same thing as Michael Jackson: Bieber without Auto-Tune. Bieber on his own is a decent singer with a better range than most who get into pop music (don't hate – check him out singing a capella and you have to admit its true). The over-production of it is offputting. The same applies to some recent albums by older artists like Metallica and Alice in Chains. If you look at the waveform of those songs it is like a brick. The "Loudness Wars" is amazingly capable of ruining what would otherwise be good music.
To expand on the question, while there are a lot of obvious differences between now and 1950 in terms of technology, culture, etc., I wonder which changes or new things they'd grasp easily and which would be utterly perplexing.
Probably not too much, depending on their knowledge of technology. I guess the internet and mobile devices were probably not thought of as much as robots doing everything back in the 50s.
I'd probably argue that 50's person from a time machine is wondering why nothing changed!
Nearly everyone carries a small device, a smart phone, that fits into their shirt pocket, that provides access to virtually the entire record of human knowledge, but is used primarily to look at pictures of cats and to argue with strangers.
I expect the visitor from the 1950s would observe that people today seem sullen and listless, fidgeting with their devices.
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Easily the most difficult thing to explain...
Neighborhood changes
