Did anyone else have Shirley Temple as a formative figure of their childhood before they could talk? I need to know. (A Ko-Fi link for normal people whose eyes skip over descriptions: ko-fi.com/starryjam)
I feel like another part of the spookiness is the fact the singers in those old songs have been gone from this Earth for years and to young people, it's like listening to a voice from beyond the grave. But some newer singers from the 60s onward have also passed away recently like Michael Jackson, so that's also not the answer entirely but a part of what I think might be happening. Just a small part. This is coming from someone who also doesn't find 1920s music scary.
That is an Excellent Point; as someone who has a very casual relationship with death I Cannot Understand How That Is Scary but I do understand that *other* people somehow think it is scary. I dunno I guess I just find it nice and comfy that someone can sing a little song and 100 years later have not just the knowledge that they performed it but something close to the sound of them performing it Still Exist. Dead people also are not scary, they're just people who died.
Corsetry. Every time I see a movie scene with someone being laced in by violent yanking on the lacing and to the point of fainting, I get closer to my Joker arc.
Great analysis; Thankfully in Italy the nostalgia thing knows vinyl and its limitations very well, and while there's a lot of pop trash there are a couple of radio stations playing really old tunes all the time It's kind of like how everyone likes retrogames but no one wants to even talk about emulators "because those are illegal" (they are not, and even if you don't own the cartridge you would be surprised by the number of exceptions for copyright law, at least in Italy)
