Watching the Warner siblings take on 2020 made me nostalgic for other animated series that would do well streaming into our living rooms today. 

The 2010s were dominated by the MCU, along with two other franchises that either have come or will come to an end in 2019: “Game of Thrones” and the “Star Wars” movies. Their example is one of how things used to be, not a sign of changing times. As Kylo Ren says in “The Last Jedi,” “Let the past die.”

Streaming is—and for the foreseeable future will be—a large part of our day-to-day lives. While there are a healthy number of streaming giants already in the mix, The Walt Disney Company threw their name in the ring with their own streaming service. Disney+ is all Disney, all the time.

“My album will never never never be on Apple. And it will never be for sale… You can only get it on Tidal.” With this tweet from Kanye West on Monday, we gained a true vision of what Tidal can and will be in the future of the music industry: a dictator’s dream of exclusive titles and monopolistic marketing.

As a jazz musician and a lover of music, I was predestined to be the music hipster in my family. But for most of my teenage years, my limited iTunes budget and the unstoppable and addictive force of pop stars’ record producers kept me from really discovering what kind of music was out there.