It's the tunes that got small

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"thebopkids esp.will (rightly) note existence of a actual real live danbcing till dawn community who believed that what constituted indie in (say) 1984 was the same as and would again soon be pop's idea of pop"

sez Mark.

I was thinking the other day that the Poptimist position is kind of like a civil servant's - you have to work with whatever regime the public hands you, however reluctantly. The alternative is a fannish secession as outlined above, keeping alive an idea of 'perfect pop' (cf also Bomp! fanzine in the 80s). You can work out for yourself where this leads.

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[charltonlido.livejournal.com]

or, is pop, its own purism? a purism of outcome, rather than a purism of source...but, one that overrides the source?

as in, whatever is brought to the door, must be left behind, once the pop hall is entered, and the big boys rule come into play, the differences dissipate...

...and you are left with pure pop, purist pop, the differences small now, irrelevant, did we even remember them, what subgenre this one popped out of? no. pop supplants difference, as it must, or, rather, it renders them irrelevant, its the big canvas