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NZ cultural cringe

  • Writer: Amanda Riddell
    Amanda Riddell
  • Dec 13, 2024
  • 1 min read

My theory is that it seems to go in cycles. Like, when I grew up in the late 1990's and the 2000's, people were into NZ songs and everyone knew them. That's when Nature's Best came out. In the 2010's however, I think that our stuff was unusual; everyone else was chasing that pop success that Lorde and Alodus Harding had. I guess that's true of Bret and Jemaine as well: all the NZ stuff got cut out of the HBO show.


There's a whole cottage industry based around imitating Dunedin Rock, but even that has a lot of LA influences (imo). Like, Vera Ellen is basically an LA act.

 
 
 

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