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As a result, a lot of the major things that the Beatles did don’t even register today.

This is why a bunch of “groundbreaking” old movies don’t blow you away if you sit down and watch them today. What they pioneered is now industry standard. But with music, you also have the numbing effect of having heard popular songs a hundred times even if you’re not into them.

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I think this is called the “Seinfeld Is Unfunny” effect. If you want to fall into at TV Tropes hole, here

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But seinfeld actually isn’t funny

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This is why no one likes Citizen Kane. Everything good from it got used in other movies before the public got to see it do to Hearst’s meddling.

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