a fight for the soul of poptimism...

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...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'. :-)

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Re: Bottom line

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but poptimism isn't a focus on just 'the content'! "it's all about the songs, man" is not a position I subscribe to and not a position I'd call poptimist. Okay my personal def of 'what is poptimism' is fairly blurry and not yet fully-thought-out, but your interpretation of the media identity of a musician (or other media-content person) affects your reception of the music (or w/evs) and there isn't much you can do about it beyond accepting that it's going on and trying to think your way through it.

Hating the new James Blunt album without ever hearing it is just a kneejerk reaction (if an informed one, presumably based on his previous record), it's got nothing to do with whether you're taking a poptimist stance or not.