Poptimist THORT For The Day

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"quality, though it exists, is not a poptimist concern"

So sez jauntyalan - what say you?

(The Poptimist TFTDs will be drawn from that text poll I did last week about "Poptimist Tenets")

Comments

but what is quality?

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

It's difficult for me to dissociate "quality" from production values, although lots of the stuff that, for example, Frank writes about is clearly high quality and clearly "pop" by sound and construction, and yet totally uninteresting to me. At the same time I guess there are things that lack that level of songwriting craftsmanship or fine production, that I go crazy about ("Maps" is what's coming to mind at the moment, although I'm not sure that's a great example).