Apodemialgia is an antonym, not a very good one for nostalgia. Nostalgia suggests a missing of a time and place in the past, apodemiagia is a wanderlust, the desire to leave home and travel away from the place.
I suffer from a musical apodemiagia and anybody who loves pop music has the same ailment. Popular hits are about a constantly evolving now. yesterday is so dead, who cares about it. Its power is in its transient. the music matters RIGHT NOW, not tomorrow, not a year from now. It may last, it may pass and be forgotten, but in the eternal now of pop music the now is all that matters.
To love the now of pop music is to love it for the reasons that makes it the least respected, the most disrespected art form. It is never to be a prophet in its own land: only time turns pop music into high culture , into art. The Ke$ha's, the Maroon 5's, the Aguilara's, the Katy Perry's… yea even the Lady Gaga's are transient trifles, the way the early Beatles aren't… or at least AREN'T NOW. Perhaps Cee Lo Green is Freddie And The Dreamers, but perhaps he isn't. It doesn't matter.
He, these musicians we spend so much time writing about, are to be judged on the platform of pop. First and foremost: does it sell? That is it job.
I claim this is a golden age in music, but I mean in pop music. It is not a golden age for rock music or hip hop, it is a golden age for techno and pop. The charts are magnificent monsters. Beyonces weakest moment on 4 is worth 50,000 Mumford And Sons. This is a golden age for pop music, better than any time I can think of except the early 1960s, when American standards, country harmonies, girl groups, Motown and the British invasion converged on the charts.
I know it but you can't.
Because… well because if you did it wouldn't be pop music.