@EMB_ice Well yes music rights does complicate things but this tweet was inspired by a cover of a song that many skaters already use the original version of with fairly regular frequency.
Figure skating is innovative in many ways, a key example being choreographers and coaches somehow finding covers of songs that make the original 20x worse with little effort and then deciding it would be perfect for a program and subjecting me to it.
They are very much completely different contexts but it was quite the experience for me having re-watched Captain America: Civil War last night and then watching the new episode of Lanterns this morning. T'challa and John both going "I'm not actually doing this anymore 👍"
I think one of the saddest things about modern childhood is the loss of cartoons as inheritance. I grew up watching Scooby-Doo reruns decades after it first aired. Kids today have more content than ever, but perhaps less shared cultural inheritance across generations.
Something about me that makes me more of a casual skating fan is that I truly won't go back and watch competitions from the current season if I miss it live. Maybe I'll catch some highlights from some events in a year or so.