Hacker News with Generative AI: Popular Culture

How many artists' careers did the Beatles kill? (cantgetmuchhigher.com)
When you ask people about the most consequential years in popular music, there might be no year that comes up more often than 1964.
Music, The Beatles, Popular Culture, History
213 points by dwighttk 18 days ago | 216 comments
Jenny and the FCC (2023) (wordpress.com)
There was a point in the early 1980s when, if I asked you what Jenny’s phone number was and you said “I don’t know,” I would assume you were either a goddam liar or maybe somebody of my grandparent’s generation.  You were certainly somebody who didn’t listen to the music on the radio, because Tommy Tutone had made Jenny and her phone number, 867-5309, about as famous as any phone number has or ever will be, with the single 867-5309/Jenny.
Music, Popular Culture, 1980s
26 points by mmoogle 35 days ago | 2 comments
Prince Nico Mbarga’s biggest hit outsold any of The Beatles’ (2017) (narratively.com)
Twenty years ago the man who recorded one of the most successful songs of all time was thrown off a motorbike by a car in Calabar, Nigeria.
Music, Africa, History, Popular Culture
76 points by Geekette 131 days ago | 62 comments
An oral history of "We Built This City," the worst song of all time (2016) (gq.com)
Thirty years ago, radio stations and MTV put an insidiously catchy song called “We Built This City” into heavy rotation and kept it there.
Music, History, Popular Culture
78 points by coloneltcb 139 days ago | 245 comments
Why Do People Hate Nickelback So Much? A Statistical Analysis (statsignificant.com)
Music, Statistics, Internet Culture, Popular Culture
40 points by gmays 303 days ago | 45 comments