Why are there far fewer advocates for popism/poptimism related to art forms OTHER than music?

I'm picturing intelligent people looking in the mirror and crying after a long degrading day of writing and arguing about mediocre pop film and tv.

I'm picturing a tree

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQDeU6dHX-c

I'm picturing a tree

― saer, Thursday, 6 July 2017 14:33

I hope it's an interesting tree.

And when I die, I want to be a ghost that feeds on the regretful tears of dying popists who went too far in their apologia and analysis.

Before I die there will be ghosts who suck the tears from my eyes because I spent so much time sneeringly lurking around discussion of mediocre to poor pop culture.

Morbius will feed these ghosts more than I will.

They will whisper to me about the potent flavour of my Ready Player One movie vintage tears.

Last night a ghost said all this intermittently when sucking on my eyes...

"You wanted to remove that Ready Player One movie thread bookmark, you wanted to spend your life more meaningfully, but you were just like the rest of them, far too weak to resist.

You told yourself that there might be something that made it worthwhile, like that hilarious Jared Leto fashion photo sequence in the Suicide Squad movie thread, but even that wasn't justification enough. No ILX poster has the power to save these threads.

Those Mahavisnu Orchestra, Judas Priest, Sisters Of Mercy, Mahler, Sibelius, Delius and Incredible String Band box sets and Cardiacs piles have been sitting unfinished for years and you still look at these threads. "

Then it told me about Οὖτις's delicious Game Of Thrones tears.

lol

flappy bird is giving this a good go maybe

Poetry rockism: http://www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?item_id=10090 - the terms of this argument are more or less identical to ye olde rockism-about-rock.

The controversy sparked (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/23/poetry-world-split-over-polemic-attacking-amateur-work-by-young-female-poets ) suggests poetry anti-poetyrockism is nascent, or at least possible.

Unfortunately the Poetry world is always full of this “THis is not real poetry” shit. I remember when political poetry wasn’t real poetry, or performance poetry wasn’t real poetry or LANGUAGE poetry wasn’t real poetry or basically anything that was not to the taste of the editors of the twenty or so highest profile journals wasn’t real poetry (this used to include most poetry by POC.) I’m not sure why different genres of writing can’t be allowed to co-exist—like, are Dance music writers always issuing denunciations of Metal?

Protecting standards used to be a big deal in academic writing programs. I remember a fiction professor on the first day of class handing out an essay he had written explaining what was literary fiction and what was genre fiction and why the latter was inferior. He compared Moby Dick and Jaws because they were both about sea creatures.

cross-ref w/ literary clusterfucks thread

just read the links on the pre-bump revive. i mean the poetry she's critiquing is properly ghastly tbh

I'm afraid many "clever, insightful" critics tend to be big fans of shaming the unwashed masses. I said fuck it a long time ago and got a subscription to Entertainment Weekly.

― Darin, Thursday, July 3, 2014 3:04 PM (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink

thread honestly should have been over here, this is the undercurrent of so much discourse that purports to be about something more elevated than this

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Lemme try that again:

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