The Naff

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

What is the relationship between coolness and naffness in pop history.

A version of it wd describe pop history as essentially a story of a thread of coolness constantly besieged by naffness. This seems deeply unsatisfactory to me.

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[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

ALSO, also, isn't the cool/naff binary just totally rockism in disguise? given that "cool" was invented by jazz [hem hem] and jazz is the most rockist of all the musics.

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

God, does this mean I have to like, I dunno, Jamie Cullum to be a jazz-poptimist?

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

skronk = pop obv ;)