Some Potentially Poptimist Statements

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Agree? Disagree? Modify?

It's interesting to think about why high-selling music is high-selling.

Your own circumstances of consumption affect how much you like music more than its circumstances of production.

You don't need much expertise or knowledge to have interesting and useful opinions on music.

There is no significant relationship in either direction between music's level of mass appeal and its quality.

I'm sure you can do better - list a possible 'poptimist' tenet in the box and I'll run them as future threads.

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I will also take this opportunity to remind players in the League Of Pop to start playing.

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Well in a sense #4 follows on from #3 - I feel very strongly that music really really isn't a terribly difficult thing to 'get'.

I think your last sentence is probably true of all of these (one reason this post hasn't exactly generated many comments - we'll see if the more interesting "Thoughts Of The Day" hidden by the poll do better).

[koganbot]

Actually, I miscounted and it's number four I disagree with (and what I was commenting on). I quite agree with number three.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Yes, but a lot of poptimists are still fans of 'experts music' like microhouse, where every track is defined in the context of subtle variations and influences from storied traditions going back 5 months, and until you learn to hear with expert ears, it's all a bit the same. Folk rather than pop music, to use a binary I'm still quite fond of.

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

Dude that doesn't make sense even before bringing the folk/pop argument.