The old saying goes it takes a lifetime to write your first album, and a year to write your second. In music, the ‘sophomore slump’ refers to the trend in which an artist’s second album fails to live up to its predecessor. But is it real or just imagined?
Whether it’s over a period of centuries, decades or days, history always seems to have a way of repeating itself. This time, it looks like the constant threat of nuclear annihilation is coming back, like it did in the Cold War.
“I liked it before it was cool!” cries the woeful hipster. Keyboard in hand, he makes his personal injustices known to the world before routinely disappearing off into the depths of obscurity.












