The major problem with discovering trends and artists a bit late is that shock of realisation that actually they died some years ago. Your grief is illegitimated due to the temporal distance of the events. Imagine being a teenager, discovering Kurt Cobain only to find out that he passed on some years since. How can you wail and gnash your teeth without embarrassing yourself? And you are too new to the bandwagon to pull rank, fans from back in the day will make snide remarks about your fan status as they were with the band back in the day, drawing Kurt Cobain love hearts and crying into Nirvana t-shirts back in the nineties.
It's a dilemma, really. Which is why you should never become enthusiastic about anything, it saves heartache and embarassment.
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