Moment when it became like cool to like commercial pop music?

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I think there's something to the theory that music-obsessed consumers, by and large, are less ashamed of their pop-music leanings. Albums/songs that 15 years ago would be labeled guilty pleasures are now relegated without that "guilty" association. I feel that may just be me getting old with not feeling guilty at all but what I listen to/like. But then again, maybe today's youth still live by those distinctions.

And I may be wrong, as my view of pop-music happenings is greatly distorted by ILM, but don't millennial music lovers as a group share a lack of cynicism when it comes to corporate-backed pop music? This observation is purely anecdotal, but I remember back in my youth really caring how "authentic" my favorite bands came off in the music press, embarrassingly. And the very notion of licencing a song off of an album by a alternative band was an act of career suicide. That sure doesn't seem to be the case anymore (thankfully). I feel like if there actually was a time in the last decade where pop music became "cool" to like, it may coincide with peoples' general acceptance of "in-authenticity".

Please don't ban me.

Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Friday, 21 November 2014 00:08 (nine years ago) link

banned

linda cardellini (zachlyon), Friday, 21 November 2014 00:10 (nine years ago) link

we could not ban you if we tried

$0.00 Butter sauce only. No marinara. (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 21 November 2014 00:10 (nine years ago) link

(relief)

Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Friday, 21 November 2014 00:12 (nine years ago) link

(talk to me boy)
i can't wait tanuki in my arms
(talk to me boy)
bet i'll have tanuki by the end of this song

linda cardellini (zachlyon), Friday, 21 November 2014 00:16 (nine years ago) link

great thread!

ͤ ͬͤ ͬͬͤ ͦͬͬͤ ͬͦͬͬͤ (sarahell), Friday, 21 November 2014 00:23 (nine years ago) link

ͤ ͬͤ ͬͬͤ ͦͬͬͤ ͬͦͬͬͤ ͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͬͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͦͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͬͦͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͤͬͦͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͬͤͬͦͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͦͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͬͦͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͦͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͬͤͬͦͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͤͬͦͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͬͦͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͦͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͬͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͬͦͬͬͤ ͦͬͬͤ ͬͬͤ ͬͤ ͤ ͤ ͬͤ ͬͬͤ ͦͬͬͤ ͬͦͬͬͤ ͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͬͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͦͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͬͦͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͤͬͦͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͬͤͬͦͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͦͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͬͦͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͦͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͬͤͬͦͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͤͬͦͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͬͦͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͦͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͬͬͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͬͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͤͬͦͬͬͤ ͬͦͬͬͤ ͦͬͬͤ ͬͬͤ ͬͤ ͤ

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ͤ ͬͤ ͬͬͤ ͦͬͬͤ ͬͦͬͬͤ (sarahell), Friday, 21 November 2014 00:23 (nine years ago) link

I think there's something to the theory that music-obsessed consumers, by and large, are less ashamed of their pop-music leanings. Albums/songs that 15 years ago would be labeled guilty pleasures are now relegated without that "guilty" association. I feel that may just be me getting old with not feeling guilty at all but what I listen to/like. But then again, maybe today's youth still live by those distinctions.

And I may be wrong, as my view of pop-music happenings is greatly distorted by ILM, but don't millennial music lovers as a group share a lack of cynicism when it comes to corporate-backed pop music? This observation is purely anecdotal, but I remember back in my youth really caring how "authentic" my favorite bands came off in the music press, embarrassingly. And the very notion of licencing a song off of an album by a alternative band was an act of career suicide. That sure doesn't seem to be the case anymore (thankfully). I feel like if there actually was a time in the last decade where pop music became "cool" to like, it may coincide with peoples' general acceptance of "in-authenticity".

Please don't ban me.

― Rod Steel (musicfanatic),

thems are banning words son

Raccoon Tanuki, Friday, 21 November 2014 00:24 (nine years ago) link

how the fuck did it take a week for me to find out that i was a pioneer? jesus, this is why comments suck

maura, Friday, 21 November 2014 00:25 (nine years ago) link

also racoon tanuki if you're such a hard stan for austerlitz you should start a tv thread about when it became cool to like sitcoms, which are on - wait for it - commercial tv, and which mister crusader for real art wrote a whole BOOK about

maura, Friday, 21 November 2014 00:26 (nine years ago) link

i pretty sure maura likes afghan whigs so i can vouch that she's not a narc fellow rock dudes

i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 21 November 2014 00:27 (nine years ago) link

i'm holding fire until i hear what Stan Leipzig and Dave Marengo have to say

maybes bakin' maybes (Noodle Vague), Friday, 21 November 2014 00:28 (nine years ago) link

which mister crusader for real art

calm down popstalinism

Raccoon Tanuki, Friday, 21 November 2014 00:30 (nine years ago) link

whatsamatter tanuki is your world being demolished

maura, Friday, 21 November 2014 00:33 (nine years ago) link

you can tell that nytime article got the poptimists shook in that non of them mentioned it for the whole thread, yet apparently they know of it, I came across by chance just a few hours back, and that since it's arrival non have even attempted arguing any of it's points, preferring to on it's arrival scream, shout, spam, call for bans, disrupt thread and call names.

Raccoon Tanuki, Friday, 21 November 2014 00:33 (nine years ago) link

we were trying to keep it buried, tanuki. we were hoping it would never be found. we thought it never could be found.

but there was one thing we hadn't planned for, tanuki... you

linda cardellini (zachlyon), Friday, 21 November 2014 00:35 (nine years ago) link

probably no one mentioned it because we all demolished it when it came out, because it was a bunch of useless hand-wringing about superficiality from someone who couldn't be arsed to read anything that didn't fit his thesis

maura, Friday, 21 November 2014 00:35 (nine years ago) link

Sorry Maura isn't there a VMA's best dressed article you should be writing about now?

Raccoon Tanuki, Friday, 21 November 2014 00:35 (nine years ago) link

i bet if i found out how old you were i'd be bummed out

i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 21 November 2014 00:36 (nine years ago) link

haha sick burn dude the vmas were in september

maura, Friday, 21 November 2014 00:41 (nine years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6KOEMJKdEI

maura, Friday, 21 November 2014 00:43 (nine years ago) link

otm

example (crüt), Friday, 21 November 2014 00:45 (nine years ago) link

probably no one mentioned it because we all demolished it when it came out
-maura

By blasting Paramore at full blast and locking yourself in your room?

Raccoon Tanuki, Friday, 21 November 2014 00:47 (nine years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsrQYVanGO0
My job is done. Weingarten showing himself as the bitter cretin he is. Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam.

example (crüt), Friday, 21 November 2014 00:47 (nine years ago) link

still can't figure whether tanuki will turn out to be one of the likely suspects or some heretofore unnoticed follower of rockwrite who could lurk no longer

da croupier, Friday, 21 November 2014 00:50 (nine years ago) link

By blasting Paramore at full blast and locking yourself in your room?

― Raccoon Tanuki, Thursday, November 20, 2014 7:47 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh honey if you're gonna place yourself as a smarter-than-thou pedant you should at least do a google news search. anyway have fun bashing your tail against bricks

maura, Friday, 21 November 2014 00:50 (nine years ago) link

ooooh what if it's dero, possessed by the symbiote

da croupier, Friday, 21 November 2014 00:53 (nine years ago) link

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Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 21 November 2014 01:06 (nine years ago) link

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Moka, Friday, 21 November 2014 01:33 (nine years ago) link

raccoon tanuki do you have bennies

mookieproof, Friday, 21 November 2014 01:58 (nine years ago) link

JUST FUN TIMES ON THE INTERWEBZ Y'ALL

search datpiff, you'll find it (slothroprhymes), Friday, 21 November 2014 02:00 (nine years ago) link

xpost IM SAYIN. ott has been my half-serious pet theory this whole time, although as some dude pointed out in the goon thread ott doesn't exactly (one assumes) know enough about rap to fake it for a troll sock identity

search datpiff, you'll find it (slothroprhymes), Friday, 21 November 2014 02:01 (nine years ago) link

dude most likely spends too much time refreshing pitchfork for indie buzz bands he can mock and/or/including angrily staring at ryan schreiber's name on the masthead to pay much attention to even what p4k considers cover-able rap

search datpiff, you'll find it (slothroprhymes), Friday, 21 November 2014 02:03 (nine years ago) link

i think he's mad abt interpol being stuck in the snow right now

i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 21 November 2014 02:23 (nine years ago) link

lol def seems that way

search datpiff, you'll find it (slothroprhymes), Friday, 21 November 2014 02:26 (nine years ago) link

or i should say he's mad AT interpol for being stuck in a huge blizzard as far as i could tell?

i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 21 November 2014 02:29 (nine years ago) link

My theory: Rollie Pemberton?

Tim F, Friday, 21 November 2014 03:06 (nine years ago) link

OH SHIIIIITTTTT cadence weapon himself lol

search datpiff, you'll find it (slothroprhymes), Friday, 21 November 2014 03:22 (nine years ago) link

I want to say RT is Tal Bachman but then RT hates DYNASTIES such as THE BACHMAN FAMILY MUSIC DYNASTY

$0.00 Butter sauce only. No marinara. (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 21 November 2014 03:25 (nine years ago) link

this got weird today

Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 21 November 2014 05:09 (nine years ago) link

this thread won't load for me, am grateful

lex pretend, Friday, 21 November 2014 09:43 (nine years ago) link

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da croupier, Friday, 21 November 2014 20:33 (nine years ago) link


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