The death of uncool

Brian Eno

Produced work with U2, Coldplay, Ultravox, David Bowie.

Theory
-There are just too many styles around, and they keep mutating too fast to assume that kind of dominance.
-Go into a record shop and look at the dividers used to separate music into different categories. There used to be about a dozen: rock, jazz, ethnic, and so on. Now there are almost as many dividers as there are records, and they keep proliferating.
-I had a hand in starting—ambient music—has split into a host of subcategories called things like “black ambient,” “ambient dub,” “ambient industrial,” “organic ambient” and 20 others last time I looked.
-We’re living in a stylistic tropics.
-The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.