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And also, as Michino said: Aidan Yes, it is still relevant in , even. Vance Frickey Much of Cosmos has aged very well. What's changed since book and documentary were first released mostly are whole new discoveries, not refutations of any specific assertions Sagan may have made. That said, if you read Sagan's remarks on any topic, you'll want to Google the same topic for say wikipedia articles and other online resources which cover what he doesn't.

As Maurice Frank has noted below, we know much more about the universe since Cosmos was first released. The Hubble Space Telescope and other astronomical tools have radically changed how much we know about the universe around us, and the speed at which that knowledge is increasing is also increasing. It's a great time to be alive. The United States government works because of the constitution and because of it, people have gained rights that they did not have before. Even though the constitution is old and was written in a completely different time period, it is still relevant because it can be changed and things can be added to it.

This is important because if it could not be changed it would not be relevant since a lot of things have changed since the time that it was written. Because of the constitution, we are different than other countries and one person does not rule us. Besides the constitution for the whole United States, there is the constituion that each state has.

This is important because each state is different and it can have its own laws according to their needs. If they could not do this, then the constitution might become irrelevant since some rules would only be needed in some states, but not in other states. The constitution is the most important document for our country because without it, our government would not be running as it is today, people would not be treated equally and some of the most important rights that people have would be taken away.

Even for characters like Batman. Mocked in The Superior Foes of Spider-Man , where the Looter attempts to revamp himself as a hip and edgy criminal who's packing heat and doesn't take shit from anyone, only to make himself look like a moron. The mid-'60s were notorious for this, with comic creators trying to cash-in on the current youth trends and counterculture. A notable example were the Teen Titans , although it was somewhat toned down when Marv Wolfman and Len Wein came on board. The Black Canary comic, spinning off from "Batgirl of Burnside" mentioned above, has Dinah as the lead singer of an indie band called Black Canary.

However this one is agreed to have worked pretty well , with many considering it to be a well-executed series. Runaways suffered a bad case of this when Terry Moore took over, made all the worse because his ideas of how to appear "hip" included having Molly declare that TV is "like YouTube for old people" and having Xavin impersonate Kevin Smith. Lampshaded in Avengers Standoff.

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While student radicals are nothing new, it's the Bombshells' use of phrases like "safe space," "problematic," and "mainsplain" that causes them to fall under this trope. It's especially off because Raven is largely considered a gothic character despite predating the rise of the subculture , not an emo one. In the s the messages on Sweethearts candies were updated to things like "E-mail me".

When Earth-C suddenly gets updated from to , Dr Hoot comes up with an evil plan involving selfies, as well as two memetastic new henchmen who are a doge and a LOLcat. The Movie executive producers re-cast Janet Waldo with Tiffany as Judy Jetson just because she was popular at the time, a move that did not sit right with cast and crew especially when they had already used Janet for the movie and just re-recorded all her lines with Tiffany, to say nothing of the fact that by the time the movie came out Tiffany was declining in popularity.

Not only that but the movie is littered with early '90s pop songs. Continental Drift cast Nicki Minaj and Drake as characters just because the studio perceived them as being hip with the kids. It even has the characters dance along to a generic auto-tuned pop song in the end credits. Considering this is the fourth movie of a franchise that began in , these elements can't help but feel like the filmmakers are falling into this.

Aside from a cringeworthy joke about emojis in one trailer and Flo Rida and Meghan Trainor's contributions to the soundtrack, The Peanuts Movie largely defies this trope completely. Charles Schulz's estate and family had a large hand in the production and wanted to keep the same timeless feel of the source material, so they made it a point to exclude any pop-culture references or bits of technology that didn't appear in the original comic strip.

The Jungle Movie was made 13 years after the original series ended. The show already felt somewhat dated in due to Helga Pataki's father being a wealthy beeper salesmen during a time when beepers were becoming obsolete and being replaced by cellphones. While it seems reasonable at first glance, it comes across as this trope because The Jungle Movie takes place only about a year and a half after the final episode of Hey Arnold! Bastian updates his hairdo because his sister calls it "un". The ultimate depiction in the movie, however, has to be Rock Biter taking his son for a bike ride When the trailer for the Three Stooges movie was shown to be rife with this, complete with a modern setting, an iPhone, and even the cast of the Jersey Shore , many people who hadn't heard anything about the film since Sean Penn was involved which implied a more serious biography of the Stooges were, to say the least, surprised.

When people hoping these were just gags made for the trailer saw it and found out that Jersey Shore is not only a big part of the film but is also instrumental to the plot, they were pissed , although it does take a bit of the sting out that they spend the entirety of their appearance getting the crap knocked out of them by Moe. An in-universe example is the whole point of The Internship. Two salesmen whose careers have been made obsolete by the digital age try to get a coveted internship at Google. Lifetime 's television film Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever is a perfect or shall we say, ''purrfect'' example of this trope in action.

While the Race Lift in Annie necessitated the Setting Update , the constant references to celebrities and memes like "Boom goes the dynamite!

Some s Red Scare films are very much like the gangster films of the '30s, '40s, and '50s. Basically, they just changed "the mob" to "communists" to make the movie seem more topical. The Sony leaks revealed that one of the proposed takes to help freshen up the Spider-Man franchise involved having him communicate with citizens via Snapchat and use expressions like "N.

Oh, and there would've been an EDM soundtrack as well. Parodied in Scream 4 , where the sixth Stab film has the killers harassing a pair of teenage girls through Facebook along with Ghostface's usual creepy phone calls. One of the two women watching this film who are themselves characters in Stab 7 describes it as the attempt of some hack writer to keep the series "hip", to which the other who's actually the killer herself cluelessly replies that nowadays Ghostface would be taunting them through Twitter instead.

A running theme in the rest of the film is how the Scream series, which was once at the cutting edge with its post-modern take on the horror genre, has become a relic of the time in which it was made , with commentary on remakes and reboots that try to update the stories of the original films for "modern" audiences. Every movie by Seltzer and Friedberg focused on contemporary trends that inevitably made the movie look dated a few months after it came out. This frequently manifested in them parodying just the trailers of films, since at the time of shooting they weren't actually out yet Biggles: In hindsight, given how fashion, music, and youth slang have evolved since then , this only makes her even more pathetic to modern viewers.

The Next Cut was always going to have a hard time avoiding accusations of this, considering that it's a sequel to a movie that came out in , and the only other Barbershop sequel came out in But when the movie's ad campaign also heavily advertises a new character played by Nicki Minaj , and the trailers namedrop selfies, hashtags, "Safe Spaces", and the election of Barack Obama , well Peter Rabbit has become widely reviled for this. The timeless countryside feel of the original stories has been given a Setting Update to cram in fart jokes, cultural references and pop music, and even the creators themselves have bragged about it being a " contemporary comedy with attitude".

This was taken Up to Eleven by the marketing when posters were released depicting the characters parodying popular films from the previous year. Welcome to the Jungle. Upon release of the first trailer, many fans took its premise as this compared to the first movie's — four teens get sucked into a video game versus The Board Game Come to Life.

However, the film itself is largely an aversion, lacking gratuitous pop-culture references, and the video game aspect itself is plot-important, allowing for the "Freaky Friday" Flip that makes up the backbone of the movie. The film also provides an in-universe example: That night, Jumanji transforms into a video game console, which he unwittingly plays. Even then, and despite the fact that the movie is made by Sony Pictures, the Jumanji console looks more like a classic '80s Atari instead of a more contemporary PlayStation.

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When we hear songs from the band's history it's clear that their sound is defined as "whatever was popular when we wrote this", and usually a trend behind. Browns Pine Ridge Stories: An In-story variation occurs in the tenth chapter. Local merchants in organize the " McRae -Helena Treasure Hunt" because they "got tired of seeing its citizens shopping in Vidalia, Dublin, Douglas". While the treasure hunt does generate interest that creates a short-term surge of economic activity, as history has shown it was neither to last nor any more effective as other examples on this list in revitalizing anything.

Owing to Values Dissonance and Technology Marches On , posts adaptations of the novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory have dealt with this trope. Compulsive gum-chewer Violet Beauregarde and TV addict Mike Teavee have undergone a great deal of Menace Decay over the years, so their personalities and habits have to be rethought in order to make them sufficiently obnoxious to warrant Ironic Hell punishments. The challenge is to make their habits of-the-moment while turning out to be endemic of larger issues that won't date as easily.

Both of the following adaptations also take place in Retro Universes where styles and technologies of various past eras rub shoulders with those of the present. In the film adaptation , Mike is a jaded Insufferable Genius obsessed with violent video games as well as TV. Violet is a Go-Getter Girl with a Stage Mom , both of whom are fixated on winning any competition that comes their way. In the stage musical , Mike's obsession with electronics of all kinds is used to keep him occupied so he doesn't cause as much real-world trouble as he otherwise would, as he is an Enfant Terrible whom no adult seems capable of controlling.

Violet is a resident of Horrible Hollywood whose father has helped parlay her non-talent of gum-chewing into a Cash Cow Franchise in the same way that reality show stars and people like Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian become famous.

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The Genre Roulette of the songs associates Mike with techno and Violet with kid-friendly rap — but also disco. Agatha Christie 's Hercule Poirot novel Third Girl attempts to introduce Swinging London youth culture, to somewhat uncomfortable effect. Bob Hope constantly attempted this in the '70s and on. As Frasier told Niles, "Don't use slang. You sound like Bob Hope when he acts like The Fonz. Enterprise 's attempts to prove that the franchise was still relevant at the turn of the millennium by allegorizing on the subject of The War on Terror could get heavy-handed at times.

Doctor Who sums this trope up with the character of Ace; a clear attempt to be relevant and "with it" for the youth of the day, her "wicked" fashion style and "ace" dialogue was frequently considered either laughable or cringeworthy at the time, never mind later on. The writer reportedly tried for accuracy, hanging out with real kids to get a sense of who they were and how they acted, but Executive Meddling resulted in actual teenage slang and speaking patterns being tossed out. While not as egregious as some other examples, the new Doctor Who series can suffer from this, too — numerous celebrity cameos and pop-culture references are scattered across multiple episodes but can leave them feeling very dated in a short space of time.

This is not the first time in the show that current pop music was described as "classical". This had a certain Reality Subtext — these reality shows were what pushed homegrown drama off the air and made producers so skeptical about bringing Doctor Who back, and now the Doctor is fighting them! The Beatles , or the "Bee-attles" comes up again as classical music in the new series episode " 42 ". This was a Call-Back to the same joke being made by a character from the future during the Hartnell Era, when the Beatles were still around. When the Master returned in the new series, he was updated into a murderous pop culture junkie.

He is shown watching an episode of Teletubbies supposedly a Shout-Out to the original series where he watches an episode of The Clangers and has pop music played when he releases the Toclafane to decimate the Earth's population "Voodoo Child", by Rogue Traders and at the start of Series 3's finale whilst he is wheeling the Doctor around on a wheelchair "I Can't Decide" by the Scissor Sisters. However, this falls more into Soundtrack Dissonance territory just to show how much of a maniac the Master is. Amusingly used in " Cold War ", set in the titular war during the eighties on a Russian nuclear sub.

When he learns the Eleventh Doctor and Clara Oswald are from the future, he asks for details about the fate of something important to him. At first, it looks like he wants to know about major events yet to come concerning the Cold War's outcome- which could derail history given the right answer in the wrong place and wrong time, should someone wish to alter its course. The final season of The Brady Bunch was like this at times. A bigoted neighbor in the episode is expressly compared to Archie Bunker. See this article for more details. The episode of Today where they did the Harlem Shake and managed to temporarily kill the meme for Valentine's Day screamed this.

Special Victims Unit does this a lot , in part because of how heavily the show relies on Ripped from the Headlines: One episode featured a young female hacker branding several men who'd raped her, clearly riding the success of the Swedish Millennium Trilogy. Rather unsurprisingly, both sides of the debate wound up hating it, which is all we'll say about the subject.

Psych also tried to jump on the Swedish thriller bandwagon with an episode in which Shawn and the SBPD chase after a young Swedish woman with supposedly serious daddy issues. Santino moved to V3 on Necessary Roughness , annoying instances of this trope have popped up, usually in the form of her boss name-dropping his supposed celebrity friends. The sad thing is, the show was actually ahead of the curve several months earlier, when it had a story arc about a fictional football player coming out as gay — several months before real-life basketball player Jason Collins did.

Greg the Bunny had an in-universe example. Gil asks Jimmy how they can update "Sweetknuckle Junction" for a more modern audience. The result includes changing Count Blah into a rapper named Count A'ight which he repeated mispronounces as ah-ig-it , sexing up Dottie, and painting Junction Jack silver, suspending him from the rafters, and renaming him Cybo-Jack.

They made me into a puppet. MTV's famed reality shows, The Real World and Road Rules before the latter was canceled have dealt with this, namely trying to catch up when later shows were able to come through the door they opened and were able to take it even further. The Real World started with average people generally acting somewhat normally at least as normal as they could under the circumstances. However, after seeing the popularity of trashy shows that reveled in their drunken debauchery like The Bachelor, they started hiring model-ready cast members and generally turned up the sex, violence and drama.

Road Rules, on the other hand, started out much more like Real World on an RV, with the challenges supposed to be rather sedate team-building exercises. However, once more extreme reality competitions such as Fear Factor came along, the challenges became much more extreme and gross-out.

Disney's Adventures in Wonderland has traces of this: It's odd considering that Disney was essentially trying to prove that a book written in the s —or, at least, its hold on the intellectual property—was still relevant. The company has been sold to the Chinese , the episodes reference often apps, social networks, new technologies and fads like the "mannequin challenge", there's talks of immigrants like one of their new co-workers, however despite all this the episodes still go on about the same way as always.

Some say that it's meant to show how office life never really changes, others say that for that reason such specific references aren't needed and will one day turn the season six episodes into an Unintentional Period Piece. Mystery Science Theater does this intentionally in one of the earlier episodes.

Forrester's own words, "Because we pride ourselves on being current and topical. The series is inadvertently becoming this as riffs based on pop cultural references current or recently current at the time fade from public consciousness. An annotation of the riffs has been in the works for some time. Insecure has an in-universe example with the fictional '90s Show Within a Show Kev'yn.

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Cracked which was a print magazine until it went online in , despite usually being pretty good about avoiding this trope, would occasionally stumble into it. One of the worst examples was in , when they attempted to parody some of the new video games that summer and came up with something called NBA Gam — "the slammin'est, gammin'est game of them all! The joke was that it was basically NBA Jam , but with the teams' cheerleaders playing, and the "cover image" showed screaming bimbos in shorts and tank tops hurling each other through the air the cartoonist apparently having confused basketball with wrestling.

In addition to the obvious Values Dissonance of the premise "Look at these girls elbowing and shoving each other! They think they're guys! In any case, the joke became discredited the very next year, when female basketball players launched their own version of the NBA. Either way, the bands' earlier fans tended to revolt against the new sounds and styles.

In fairness to Rush, their movement away from prog and their incorporation of keyboards was more gradual and natural than most bands, and a number of fan-favorite songs were released during their '80s Synth period. There's no defending their cheesy '80s haircuts and clothes though. For the same reason, KISS ditched their trademark facepaint and costumes in the '80s for a glam look. They've since gone back to their classic style with the album Psycho Circus. Witness, also, Cheap Trick 's attempts, at least since their late '70s heyday ended, to update their look, sound and style to fit the times.

They've been making inroads into their more influential, early, power-pop sound. This trope, in fact, was the entire reason The Police existed. Stewart Copeland, who had been a drummer for the popular prog-rock combo Curved Air, saw the success that punk groups like the Sex Pistols and The Clash were having, and recruited Sting out of a small-time jazz combo called Last Exit and Henri Padovani who was soon ditched in favor of Andy Summers, himself a member of The Animals and Zoot Money's Big Roll Band from the '60s to make reggae-tinged punk and hopefully catch some of the punk scene's success.

The rest is history. Late 's "The Endless River" was released to mixed critical reviews, and did not contain three-fifths of the founding members. It disappointed many longtime fans by being ambient and repetitive. Christian Rock band Petra continuously changed their image and sound during The '80s based on what was popular, with varying results. Their most successful case was an entirely accidental one — the untimely departure of lead singer Greg Volz who sounds a lot like Steve Walsh from Kansas in the mid-'80s forced them to bring in John Schlitt who sounds like every Hair Metal lead singer ever , which led to the peak of their career and their most famous material.

The '90s , on the other hand, were their Dork Age , as they attempted to find footing in the age of grunge and alt-rock while still retaining Schlitt on lead and trying to garner airplay on contemporary Christian radio. Eventually, they released one last classic-rock album to appease the long-time fans and then folded. They have since reunited with their 40th anniversary album released in Metallica preemptively pulled this trope between the albums Load and St. Anger ; during that time period, they tried to adapt to the rising Alternative Metal trends by changing their sound, hair and logo.

Anger , they finally returned to their trademark thrash sound that we all know and love on Death Magnetic. Herbie Hancock spent most of the seventies and eighties jumping from genre to genre. He tried fusion, disco, funk and electronica, sometimes combining several of these. In , Village People , those s disco icons, tried to adapt to a new decade by discarding their macho gay look and adopting a New Romantic one. Elton John has stayed or tried to stay contemporary for many decades, with mixed results. Part of the trend may have been aggravated by Elton's Signature Style of singer-songwriter Piano Pop, which was rarely fashionable in rock in the first place.

Korn 's announcement that their album The Path of Totality would consist of a blend of their traditional sound and brostep rather smacked of this trope. Carlos Santana has done this multiple times over the years, teaming up with the likes of Rob Thomas for "Smooth" in and Chad Kroeger for "Into the Night" in However, his timeless "psychedelic Latin jazz" sound has never gone away, either.

U2 's announcement that their next album s would be variously produced by Danger Mouse, will. It wouldn't be the first time either, since they did record Achtung Baby , one of the most successful albums specifically designed to make a band relevant once again. Songs Of Innocence quite literally invoked this trope, as the album was self-downloaded onto nearly every iTunes account upon release. Bono later confessed that this was done out of fear that the band would lose relevance, especially after their prior album No Line On The Horizon "underperformed" commercially.

On both occasions it does work with the music, but it was Out of Character for them. The former has dated because the rap style is in the '80s rap style, but the latter hasn't due to being more influenced by jazz rap. On the other hand, "The Outsiders" was on Around the Sun , from a period that even the band themselves consider a Dork Age. But everyone associated them with disco, so the Re Tool didn't work.

It had a decade earlier, when they went from a band not unlike The Beatles to a disco group, but didn't work this time. Only in the United States though. In England, their Eighties and Nineties output was well-received. Even in America, international hits from their latter-year albums are featured heavily. The Bee Gees' Robin Gibb tried a solo comeback in with Magnet , nearly 20 years after his last solo album. Unfortunately, Robin -- a mids Englishman -- tried his hardest to sound as relevant as the young pop stars of the day, including attempts at hip hop and lyrics about getting his 'freak on.

The fact that he followed it up with one of the worst live albums in history didn't help. The Rolling Stones ' album Some Girls was a very deliberate response to critics who had dismissed them as outdated in the face of Punk Rock and disco. It paid off big time, and the Stones pointed out that numerous punk rockers had grown up listening to them.

It's also helped that they've absorbed many different music styles over the years, while still retaining their core blues-rock sound. Bowie determined his Let's Dance sound and persona based on what he expected would make him a huge amount of money , hopping on the New Wave Music trend with enthusiasm. The album is excellent stuff and sold more than anything else he did, as well as providing an accessible Gateway Persona to the rest of his catalogue , earning him tons of money from sales of his weirder older albums too.

This commercial success and cultural relevance was absolutely unprecedented, and Bowie, who had been struggling under a nasty contract at his last label, decided to ignore his instincts and stick with the pop persona. This gave him writer's block, and it shows. Tonight and Never Let Me Down , his two succeeding '80s pop albums, are more of the same trend-riding without the level of quality and novelty of Let's Dance , leading to his core fanbase feeling like he'd sold out and the mainstream music public ignoring them though both albums sold quite well regardless.

Most of the music from this period which is still listened to are his movie soundtrack tie-in singles which tended to reflect the tone and setting of the movies they were written for rather than ride trends obsessively and the tracks "Loving the Alien" and "Time Will Crawl" which were the only songs from Tonight and Never Let Me Down that retained the artistic, socially-conscious leanings of much of his earlier work.

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Bowie's "Tin Machine" era, considered another Dork Age right after his 80's Dork Age, is probably his most complete example. More so than any other Bowie era save perhaps for his fumbling pre-fame records , it felt like an aesthetic decided by what he felt the prevailing trend for music was going to be, and he wasn't even wrong — the trouble was that he ended up going back to a strain of '70s rock he'd never played a lot of in the '70s instead of creating something genuinely new, and then didn't do that particularly well.

Unfortunately, what he ended up with was a load of dated-sounding pub-rock with stupid lyrics, just going to show that even creators as savvy and inventive as Bowie can get burned by this trope. The Grunge movement would appear a couple of years later to do the same sort of thing Bowie had been expecting would happen, but also showing just how clueless Bowie's attempt at inventing it was. Interestingly, the Tin Machine era would become very much Vindicated by History , thanks to continuously emerging information regarding how influential the group actually was on 's Alternative Rock , particularly grunge.

Among other things, Tim Palmer who produced both of Tin Machine's albums recalled how, while doing the mixing for Pearl Jam 's Ten , he went into the studio and found the band listening to "Heaven in Here"; it seems that Bowie did end up thinking ahead in the long run. Despite his notorious penchant for the New Sound Album , Bowie largely stayed ahead of the curves that come along in music and avoided accusations of trend-jumping, owing in part to both his strong Creator Thumbprint as a lyricist and his compelling stage presence.

Of course, that's not to say he wasn't completely immune outside of his slump — he was mocked quite heavily in the British music press over 's Earthling: Michael Jackson , according to producer Quincy Jones, didn't think rap music would catch on back in The '80s. He still tried to cultivate an edgier, tough "street image" with 's Bad , specifically with the title song's music video in which he plays a reformed gang member , but while the album sold well and garnered five 1 singles, his look and attitude were roundly mocked.

He struggled with this trope for the rest of his career. Ten years later, David Browne commented in his Entertainment Weekly review of Invincible that Jackson "appears to be so lacking in confidence that he's top-loaded the album with every conceivable collaborator he could call, from Carlos Santana and Babyface for the oldsters to Rodney Jerkins and rapper Fats for the kids.

Her collaborations with rappers and hip-hop producers have always been better-received than her brother's because it's a more natural part of her music rather than a blatant attempt at appealing to young people. Janet being perceived as more down-to-earth than Michael and lacking his eccentricities doubtlessly helped preserve her career as well. At the beginning of the decade, he was the face of rap.

Perhaps boasting that "U Can't Touch This" stuck harder than he thought, because by the mid-'90s the Darker and Edgier Gangsta Rap was flourishing, and quite a few of its stars made no bones about how much they despised Hammer, his big bouncy pants and his dance- and party-oriented sound. Ironically, Hammer has a darker reputation behind the scenes according to other credible Rap stars much to their horror , with many in the business being aware of his gang connections and tendency to threateningly confront and sometimes try to place hits on other rappers; reportedly, at least one attempt actually succeeded.

Slayer , for about a decade, was a major victim of this trope. To put it simply: Unfortunately, the only thing people found even remotely shocking about the record was something completely unintended: After realizing they were trying way too hard to remain relevant in the extreme metal scene they ironically helped to create, the band slowly moved away from the Nu Metal influences and shock tactics of those two albums with 's Christ Illusion.

And then, in , they released World Painted Blood , an album many consider to be their best and most genuine since the early '90s. They still play material off of GHUA here and there, but Diabolus has been entirely disowned by the band and is viewed as an embarrassing footnote in their history and a particularly misguided attempt to keep up with the times. Five Iron Frenzy broke up in , then reunited about a decade later to record a new album, Engine of a Million Plots.

Rather than changing their style to fit the times Engine still sounds like the last albums FIF put out pre-breakup they wrote a song to joke about how out-of-touch they were. The song in question is "Battle Dancing Unicorns With Glitter", where they reference trends in the most awkward way possible "12 o'clock! We're hip hopping and we can't quite stop! Very few people outside her most diehard fans backed it.

Bionic got mass promo for 4 or 5 months straight and then was disowned, as was Lotus. Rush fell victim to this in the eyes of certain subsets of fans after Moving Pictures , which just also happened to be generally regarded as the peak of their career. Though their initial foray into popular '80s synth technology, Signals , was well-received, the drastically slicker and more melodramatic sounds they utilized on the following three releases gave a strong impression of the band conforming to the style of Top 40 pop music at the time.

And it definitely didn't help when they went for a Darker and Edgier sound rooted in heavy guitar distortion when that sort of thing became the popular music norm "Stick it Out" and "Driven" are especially obvious genre emulation grabs. It would be the release of Vapor Trails that finally marked the end of the band's two decade-long trend-following focus. Some of Madonna 's output during the new millennium smacks of this trope.

While she was always known for reinventing her image, her last couple albums especially MDNA have been heavily criticized for pandering to modern-day trends without really doing anything new or unique. It also doesn't help that she's still trying too hard to be Ms.

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Fanservice in her fifties. Smash Mouth 's album Magic has a song called "Justin Bieber". This is justified by the fact that the song is about the narrator pondering things that have went out or should go out of style, such as Glee covering "everything except a song of mine"—which becomes Hilarious in Hindsight with the show ending in On the other hand, it does not seem very timely to have J.

Dash maker of "Wop" appear twice as a guest. Megadeth 's album The World Needs a Hero is a textbook example of this trope. While it at least delivered on the promise of being heavier than Risk, it ended up sounding like a bland and tired version of their mid-'90s heavy metal rather than the amazing thrash metal of albums like Rust In Peace. The album's biggest indicator of the band's desperation, however, came from its inclusion of a vastly inferior sequel to their Signature Song "Hangar 18" called "Return To Hangar.

Rascal Flatts ' album Rewind smacks of this: It really sticks out in his discography, as other than a cover of " I Don't Want to Miss a Thing " that was apparently forced on him by his label , his music has been hardcore honky-tonk that practically went out of its way to be timeless.