a fight for the soul of poptimism...

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

...has broken out on this thread. Since I am now using 'poptimist' with scare quotes, it may be possible that I am about to publicly 'break' with 'the' 'movement'. :-)

Comments

Re: Bottom line

[dickmalone.livejournal.com]

"Understandable" does not mean "legitimate." I.e. I think it makes enough sense for people to dislike the album before hearing it that it's probably pointless to argue with them about it, and helpfuly it means you don't need to take their opinion seriously.