Has pop culture reached a perpetual now?

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

Fashion has gone through some pretty dramatic shifts over the past decade. I could go through an itemized list of changes but there's an easier approach: go to your social network of choice and compare pictures of younger friends or relatives. I cringe when I look at 2005 fashion, it's not remotely comparable to 2015 fashion.

As far as music is concerned, enthusiasm for "indie" music is dead and hip-hop has (finally) triumphed as the dominant musical expression of the contemporary zeitgeist. My claim about hip-hop is evidenced by the ubiquity of rap features in the most inoffensive pop music.  Kendrick Lamar was featured in a Taylor Swift song! Juicy J was featured in a Katy Perry track!

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

Fashion has gone through some pretty dramatic shifts over the past decade. I could go through an itemized list of changes but there's an easier approach: go to your social network of choice and compare pictures of younger friends or relatives. I cringe when I look at 2005 fashion, it's not remotely comparable to 2015 fashion.

There was a huge shift from roughly 2003-2008 and then almost no change since then.

For example, here's the 2008 cast of Saturday Night Live:



These are hip, youngish people who try to be out there with their fashion choices, but everything still pretty much works today, except for Jason Sudeikis's blazer-over-polo-shirt-over-t-shirt getup, which we'd now consider to make one look like a tool.

Edit: fixed photo

Those choices wouldn't look out of place but they'd be considered quite unfashionable in 2015, something that "basic" people in "flyover" country would wear.