GIVE YOUR BEST ROLLING STONE COVERS

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The 90s were so based
2020s are fucking soulless

Can someone explain to a zoomer what the cultural importance of Rolling Stone was?
What made them different from other magazines, what kind of person subscribed to them, etc etc

rolling stone wrote about music and entertainment, playgirl had dude dicks in it. that's about it

>cultural importance of Rolling Stone
In the 90's? Zero. It was relevant in the late 60's when it first started. Reviews could make or break a band. Then came Led Zeppelin and they BTFO all critics and made them irrelevant

I'm not a consoomer

Their political writing also used to be way more influential (and actually credible) in the 70s. One of the Watergate reporters wrote a series of articles for RS that was the first major bombshells about government and intelligence manipulating corporate media.

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What? They were still relevant up to the mid 90s. After that it became a promotor for big label singer and bands and pop culture.

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today it's sad and pathetic; they just recite vanilla corporate Democrat talking points

Sometimes they had hot chicks on the cover.

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Real music heads were reading shit like Spin and AP in the US but RS was the best selling music magazine by far.

RS stayed on mainstream trends and failed miserably trying to make the switch away from their boomer rockist fans to poptimist millennials. Boomers lost interest and Britney and Beyonce fans weren't interested in the political and entertainment commentary
I still think that Britney cover story in 99 was the biggest win for poptimism. It was controversial on so many fronts and really cemented the death of rockist ideals

If nothing else Rolling Stone knew how to present itself if not on the same level content-wise as deeper music zines. Almost every cover is legendary.

thought that was Daniel Day-Lewis for a second

None of you answered my secondary questions

were pavement really mainstream back then?

That's because I don't know the answer, silly.

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>still writing about Phish in the 90s

They were like pitchfork but, instead of covering aseptic indie rock music, they covered shit like clapton, led zepellin and other has-been artists.