FUTURE! (wub wub wub)

Today I realized that the pop music of The Future is actually pretty much exactly what we imagined it would be: nakedly electronic(a), with heavy beats, buzzing square waves, and vocal performances so thoroughly processed, autotuned and (deliberately) flanged that they sound more robotic than human - that is, how we thought robots would sound in 1983. The only way I can see for it to be more gratuitously "computer-y" would be if all the song and album titles were printed in MICR-13B, OCR-A, or 7-segment LED.

We were right. God help us, we were right.

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