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.

Comments

[plumsbitch.livejournal.com]

. 'Cool' stands for that independence (in cases where successful).

This is key, I think. 'where successful' possibly implies some recongition/identification by 'judgers' of coolness but without seeming to seek that?

cf the difference between 'cool' and 'trying too hard'?