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'. :-)

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[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I did reconsider whether I was actually a poptimist 4REAL after the previous Paris thread fiasco, as I thought my objections were coming out as a bit rockist and anyway, I've been listening to a lot of Armor For Sleep lately so thought it might be time to go back to my rockist hole, after my year-and-a-half flirtation with pop but then I decided that a) I would not care if that was some session singer who was a member of the communist party and worked tirelessly for Medicins Sans Frontieres in their spare time singing a lot of those tracks, they would still be fucking shit, b) I think a lot of poptimism involves supporting the pop cause and so I'm inevitably going to frown at some twat like Paris deciding they'll have a little go at playing about being a popstar, because they can, because that makes a mockery and a sham of everything. By no means does pop need to be serious and indeed it probably shouldn't be but Paris seems the equivalent of a sleazy "talent show" judge peddling out some shit act that will die in three months/when the next season comes out just because it'll make them a few bucks and give them some exposure. I can't endorse that, this is meant to be fucking music, not Reveal magazine's 'OH MY GOD, LOOK, CELEBRITIES BREATHING' pages. :/

I didn't read the whole of that thread because it seemed to descend into wank quite soon and I'm not a member of that board so can't really understand what the hell people are saying in most of it.

Humm. I don't know, maybe I should still be expelled from the poptimist order but I feel the anti-Paris cause is totally just for totally pop-justified reasons.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

That last comment was not meant to reference Popjustice, it just came out that way by accident- sorry.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

the first hundred or so posts on that thread not by me are dreadful yes, but after you scroll swiftly past them it gets pretty decent!

(I think a lot of the 'pop cause' IS making a mockery and sham of everything)