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After a magical visit to the kingdom of caring, there's been a spooky mashup in Happy Meal, and the Care Bears are all jumbled up.

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happy meal. Until 4th of November from 11am, includes one pre-selected book or toy, while stocks last,

subject to availability, fair ordering policy applies. It is a well-established fact that music

comes in many different types of cycles. A sound and style will be big for a while, reach a peek with the public,

and then slowly fade out. But once established, it's highly unusual for a sound to completely

disappear, never to be heard from again. The only genre I can really think of at this point is

maybe alt-rock style rockabilly. It was really big in the very early 80s with bands like the stray cats

but then it just kind of went away and there's never really been a rockabilly revival at least in

the alt rock sense and with the style and scope of what we heard way back then when it was huge

for about 18 months. It still exists in

certain corners, but it's never really had a full-blown revival. Instead, what we've seen,

rockabilly aside, after enjoying a time at the forefront of music, many of the cycle-prone rock

sounds recede into the shadows, never really go away, lying in wait until someone comes along,

often a generation or two later, to rediscover and reactivate it. And when that happens, it's usually

given a sonic update. And if the timing is right, the sound enjoys a new period of time in the sun

before the cycle repeats itself yet again.

The longer you live and the more music you become familiar with, the more you begin to see these cycles play themselves out, sometimes over and over again.

And we see it every decade.

The 2010s were no different.

We saw a series of revivals and rediscoverys and comebacks,

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