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Flipboard Culture Desk1980s indie music wasn’t supposed to grow into a bigger thing. “Indie was odd, misshapen, flawed and messy. It was never meant to be popular or endure,” Stephen Armstrong writes. And yet the Gen Xer recently found himself in a club, almost thinking he’d time traveled back to the decade of The Cure and Talking Heads when he saw the girls dancing and the boys lumbering. Turns out the Gen Z crowd can't get enough of it. Read more from @Independent:
1980s indie music was Gen X’s Frankenstein’s monster – so why do their children love it?
The scruffy, awkward music genre that was supposed to have been killed by the rave kids is back. As Gen Z can’t get enough of the soundtracks of the outsider lyrics their parents loved, Stephen Armstrong heads to the dancefloor to find out why