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GIVE YOUR BEST ROLLING STONE COVERS
Levi Ortiz
Michael Reyes
The 90s were so based
2020s are fucking soulless
Christian Wilson
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
William Jones
rolling stone wrote about music and entertainment, playgirl had dude dicks in it. that's about it
Gavin Peterson
>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
Logan Nelson
I'm not a consoomer
Dominic Evans
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.
Nathaniel Nelson
Carson Powell
What porn star is this
Sebastian Hernandez
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.
Levi Parker
today it's sad and pathetic; they just recite vanilla corporate Democrat talking points
Nathaniel Torres
Sometimes they had hot chicks on the cover.
Jace Ortiz
WINONA
Lucas Butler
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
Luis Diaz
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.
Jacob Morgan
thought that was Daniel Day-Lewis for a second
Anthony Cooper
None of you answered my secondary questions
Luis Lewis
were pavement really mainstream back then?
Wyatt Miller
That's because I don't know the answer, silly.
John Williams
daily reminder she loves anal
Liam Cooper
>still writing about Phish in the 90s
Connor Green
They were like pitchfork but, instead of covering aseptic indie rock music, they covered shit like clapton, led zepellin and other has-been artists.