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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[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly. I haven't waded into this here because I made my comment on Paris in an earlier thread. But I think you (Lex) are wilfully missing the point: you can demand that we like Paris based on Paris, but you seem to expect us to love Paris the person as well (because of the album, or because of the person, I'm not sure which). But the Paris story and the Beyonce story or the Britney story are completely different. And don't pretend you don't know that. And the sex tape really isn't that important, at least to me.