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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Canada
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best thread title I could come up with in the wee hours but I have a question, inspired mainly by Superchicken and his views against most main-stream pop music and culture...but directed to anyone and everyone willing to answer...
Whenever I hear someone my age, or any age for that matter, attacking main stream pop-culture, I'm left to wonder whether they ever just get really tired of fighting it and just want to cave...
Because while I don't disagree with that there's a lot of it is crap, I can just sit back and enjoy it for being ear and eye candy now and again. It seems to really affect some people though and, say what you will about that, I just want to know if it ever becomes tiring to the point where they flirt with just heading to the local music store and picking up the Britney dvd concert special just so they don't have to fight it anymore.
I mean, it must get tiring evading pop-culture all the time, especially when 99% of everyone else isn't, right? Personally, I think it'd be exhausting, but I may be assuming that everyone's as exposed as I am.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: My Powerbook, in Japan!
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You can't escape pop culture. Thats why its called culture. The only way to escape it is to live in the woods, write strange manifestos, and send bombs to people. We know how these things turn out.
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Join Date: Aug 2004
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Pop culture is cyclic. Pop culture gets worse and worse, degrading in quality and originality. Indie music slowly become more popular and mainstream. Eventually it flips and indie becomes pop. Rinse, repeat.
I don't have anything against pop. If it sounds good I'll listen to it. I'm not going to listen to indie just because its indie. A lot of pop artists are good, talented, etc. Some aren't. I forget the name of the song but its by Britney spears. Then listen to Rumors by Lindsay Lohan. They sound almost exactly the same right down to the lyrics.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2004
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Originally posted by MilkmanDan:
You can't escape pop culture. Thats why its called culture. The only way to escape it is to live in the woods, write strange manifestos, and send bombs to people. We know how these things turn out.
No, thats why its called POP culture. The flavor of the month.
Find music you like. Listen to it. Grab a good book. Watch whatever you want to. You'll see just how disconnected from pop culture you can become.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Washington, DC
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Some aspects of pop culture are cool, some aspects simply stink. I've exhausted from all the "reality TV" spin offs. It's nice to see things keep changing, but the older I get, the less it seems to matter.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Where my body is
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I haven't watch MTV, Entertainemt Tonight and other shows that promote Pop Culture or listened to comercial radio in years. But I still have a vague Idea of what's popular right now just by talking with friends or going to bars or the Top artists stand in record stores. I feel no pressure to "cave in", I just don't care and listen to what I like. Sometimes it's something popular, sometimes it outdated by popular standards, sometimes it's unknown by most. Who cares if I like it. Naturally, I'm not attracted by the flavor of the moment and somtimes I will listen to something a year or two after the buble bursted. That way I can judge better if I like it without the song being stuffed down my throat every time I turn on the radio. Maybe I'm saying this 'cause I'm over thirty...
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