Freaknik
claydavis > 03/04/2024, 23:11
This is available to watch on Disney+ and provides an insight into it's inception, rise, downfall and return. We're taken to Atlanta in the 80's and the HBCU college campuses where it all began as an idea for students to spend some time together in a park during their Spring Break and how it evolved into something where major rap stars would got to perform their latest songs in order to gain a new fan base as the landscape of popular music changed across the airwaves. The economic benefits that it had on the city soon became outweighed by larger capitalistic ambitions, and a darker side also emerged due to it's popularity that brought new attendees that were not of college age and with an intention for something that other attendees did not want to partake in. Something that began as a play on words of a disco classic lost it's meaning became misinterpreted due to patriarchy and chauvinism. With it's heyday being held in such revere, the opportunity for someone to capitalise on it's name recognition arose, but do university educated young people born after the millennium want the same thing as what their grandparents did when they were teenagers? Or do they want to create their own thing instead that reflects more modern times?