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

I tried to get my head around the idea that e.g. Brian Ferneyhough is in fact exploiting the proletariat by by writing difficult complex music. Then I decided to revolt against the unpaid labour of thinking about it.

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, May 25, 2015 4:43 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is similar to what Cornelius Cardew argued in Stockhausen Serves Imperialism (1974), isn't it?

i posted some stuff about popism and capitalism earlier on this thread, in a piece on gawker linked on taylor thread similar ideas are expressed, a decent read apart from the somewhat polemical tone:

... the part of Taylor’s persona that doesn’t get talked about enough: she is a ruthless, publicly capitalist pop star. To think of her as womanhood incarnate is to trick oneself into forgetting about “Bad Blood” and “Better Than Revenge.” Swift isn’t here to help women—she’s here to make bank. Seeing her on stage cavorting with World Cup winners and supermodels was not a win for feminism, but a win for Taylor Swift. Her plan—to be as famous and as rich as she can possibly be—is working, and by using other women as tools of her self-promotion, she is distilling feminism for her own benefit.
http://gawker.com/taylor-swift-is-not-your-friend-1717745581

how is feminism the way this writer defines it possible in a society that's not capitalist?

Are you referring to this paragraph?

I often have conversations with my female friends about the two sides of feminism: the complimentary, bestie feminism—the kind that Swift is currently selling—and the cutthroat, realistic, we-exist-in-this-male-world-too feminism, the kind that expects women to act to standards that have already been set for us, and to do so by acting better and stronger and in alignment with each other. I think that neither are necessarily “wrong,” though I do often find myself on the latter side of the fence.

If so, it's pretty late in Denmark and I'm not clearheaded enough to understand what it's supposed to mean. But I thought the point about Taylor's capitalist values was relevant (although I'm sort of feeling that maybe other people itt will find it too self-evident to be mentioned).

Maybe both sides are just different points of view seen through this critical lens that is being reduced into yet another cultural football team.

Is a non-capitalist pop star possible?

I thought popular music depended on the existence of capital.

Just thinkin' aloud here.

Taylor Swift Burn a Million Quid

cultural football team hehe

Were there stars in communist Russia? Jurij Gagarin? Anyway, I agree, in a capitalist society it's hard to imagine pop being in opposition to capitalism. But maybe some pop embraces capitalism more than other - or maybe Pitbull (my go to reference, but really, the guy had a sponsorship deal with Kodak where he would say the word "Kodak" in his songs) is no more capitalist than the Beatles were, he's just up front about it?

I'm pretty much repeating myself here - but I thought it was nice to see an article/thinkpiece that pointed out however obvious, that there's some tension between the down-to-earth-friend and larger-than-life-business Taylor Swift.

flappy bird heroically stanning for the angry birds movie reminded me of this thread

Feel like a lot of people used to be into way more interesting stuff.

they were also shorter and lived near the water

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

https://giphy.com/media/94EQmVHkveNck/200.webp

Lemme try that again:

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