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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[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

both - first the naff becomes cool, and then once too many people think it's cool (naff people latch on to the cool thing), it becomes naff again.

although a different kind of naff than it was orig.