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none of my favorite writers talk about this stuff

thread to track Poptimism 2.0 [Started by Whiney G. Weingarten in February 2018, last updated thirty minutes ago by

what a horribly formed "joke" [Started by Whiney G. Weingarten in February 2010, last updated one hour ago by

i laughed at the chaos sex dragon man ive been there ive been there

probably streamline a lot of these threads by just posting a link to the appropriate Wikipedia list

man i was fuckin loaded that day

yeah bc god forbid we allow more than one point of view at any one time

its like trying to have a conversation with an air-raid siren

That is actually more fun than you think

It's so hard to be right

what is happening? i am confused

deej . . . otm

fwiw, i.e. not much, I knew they didn't want to be called that name on ilx, but I was under the impression it was because of someone stalking them and had no idea that using it would be deadnaming them until now (regardless of why, I wouldn't use it anyway, but just saying not everyone knows everything about everyone else here)

betty if you call me, you can call me al-gorithm

tfw yr best ilx post in years is entirely slept on

Link!

would you drink water straight out of a toilet

i am the most extreme supporter of drinking toilet water
i drink from the toilet and you must too
i drink from the toilet and you should too
i already do drink water from a toilet, all the time
i drink water from a toilet on occasion
i drank water from a toilet once
i could see myself drinking toilet water in all sorts of scenarios
i would drink toilet water in an emergency
i am not sure how i feel about drinking water from the toilet
i wouldn’t drink water from a toilet, no matter what
i wouldn’t drink water from a toilet, even if it cost me my life
i wouldn’t drink toilet water, even if it killed important people in my life, in addition
i would take the life of someone else before i drank any toilet water
i am the most extreme opponent of drinking toilet water

drag all these fux0rs out dead or alive

if another movie is never made i wouldn't bat an eye

I haven't kept up with the thread but, if my example of a post-Adorno pop-hating pop writer is a fiction, to the point of being inconceivable, I'm pretty sure that actually supports the point I was getting at: I was NOT saying that poptimist writers always love (or should always love) the most popular music purely because it is popular; that is not a critique of poptimism that I would take seriously at all. I do think, though, that this critical approach is almost by necessity still less detached or sociologically-minded than "popularity itself is worth studying" seems to imply to me - it seems to require at the least a pretty significant appreciation of the basic aesthetic values of mainstream pop music (which does have a pretty clear and distinct set of aesthetic values at any given time). That definitely doesn't mean the poptimist has to love any given individual pop song but it will probably mean, statistically, that the poptimist will love a large number, or eventually become less actually-poptimist, for the same reasons you give. As such, I'm not convinced that it is radically different from 'rockism', which was also rooted in an appreciation for the aesthetic values of a Golden Era of Pop (and provided plenty of attendant political rationalizations for this preference).

Btw, I do know scholars who prefer other musics as listeners or musicians but who study pop because "popularity itself is worth studying" (or pragmatic in career terms). No one considers them poptimists afaik.

Not a soundalike, to their credit, but some quality glide guitar (Joy Division and Jesu in there too): https://planningforburial.bandcamp.com/track/dull-knife-pt-i-2

I don't wanna be that guy but I just don't find these lol funny

it's DEMURS not DEFERS

Lol

i quite like these guys but this is a awkard embarrassing typo of a thread title

Mild start there

i'm glad we're back to ilx's main area of expertise: the politics of celebrities

Western Europeans/North Americans who fantasize about the Soviet bloc are a special brand of deluded.

If that's directed at who I think it's directed at then they're neither Western European or North American.

If they live in either region my point still stands.

Otherwise it's a lesser kind of delusion but a delusion all the same.

what are they

tread lightly or the puppy gets it

#Don'tTapeMeBro

What the dickens...

Nevermind

I'm amazed no-one has said "Why couldn't it have been Morrissey?"

where is your Billy Corgan Alex Jones poll? oh nvmd let's all dunk on someone for being a crazy woman what a great idea

I don't disagree but things Billy Corgan said to Kim Thayil in Australia in 1994 poll

Shhhh shhh the narrative

yeah we already have a legendary thread that is a poll for crazy Billy quotes

o snap there's a Billy Zane quote thread?

not yet, get on it tho

can't speak for the motive of the poll starter anymore than I can speak for that behind Adam's performative male feminism but few if any of the quotes from that interview seem 'crazy', with the arguable exceptions of ones which are quoting someone else

can't decide whether this is "least enticing" or if i need to start a thread called "horrible thread titles by overexcitable indies"

https://s10.postimg.org/r7enp8grd/68_D25_F85-7_FE7-4463-_B930-8_F5_D9_F6_EC3_D2.jpg

Dale, yes, Bob, no

It's a superhero comic movie made in hollywood

When did I turn into liberal David Brooks?

Phillip Schofield is looking a bit rough these days.

lol this film is so bad

now trying to work out whether mark was gonna post that in the eyes wide shut or black panther threads

they're no dunkirk

luv2defend my cinematic hero chris nolan, who is not at all a creepy robot with no understanding of human emotion