It's the tunes that got small
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poptimists"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.
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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Must Pop be Popular?
Date: 2006-08-07 08:33 pm (UTC)All a bit theoretical for me, at least for after midnight. I see where freakytigger is pointing with this, but I don't entirely agree. I mean, you do have to work with what you're given, but at the same time, I think we should consider the results of the Now Polls. (The industry is changing too rapidly now to try to work seriously with something like sales.) Some pop is simply Not As Good As other pop -- the highest peaks during one era might struggle to reach the middle ranges of another; some songs retain their power for years while others are forgotten within months. To