“There’s something undignified about being 55 and worrying whether something’s cool or not,” Mat Osman, the bassist for the band Suede, said in a recent Guardian profile. I’m not quite 55 but I’m close enough, and the line resonated with me because passing this binary judgement felt like such a central concern of the early 1990s, the period which I’d re…
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