Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/70s revival


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The result was delete. Kurykh (talk) 01:09, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

70s revival

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Delete. Completely unsourced and unsourceable article about a purported musical genre. While it's certainly true that some elements of 1970s music have re-emerged as an influence on new music being made in the 21st century, there's no sourceable evidence that music critics treat that fact as a genre of music per se -- artists who do this are still classified as "pop" or "rock" or "alternative" or "indie" or "r&b" or "hip hop" or whatever, rather than as a distinct "70s revival" genre. And, in fact, the only reliable sourcing I can find for "70s revival" as a phrase is in the context of clothing trends rather than musical ones. Our role on here is not to invent musical genres by cherry picking anecdotal evidence that three or four musicians have had similar ideas — which is all that we've got here, as the entire proof of concept is the fact that Fountains of Wayne and Outkast have made songs that showed some 70s influences. Our job is to wait until the critics pin down a "genre", and follow their lead. Bearcat (talk) 23:45, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete because the genre doesn't exist. L3X1 My Complaint Desk 17:55, 15 February 2017 (UTC)


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