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

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

hurrah. now if we can persuade the publishers to sell it in the UK we're on a winner!


I've always been cool on the whole "talking/writing about music" thing. in the end, i don't really like music reviews/writing or find it useful. so i'm never too hot on dissecting why things are g/b/m and it often feels 'orthogonal' to my visceral 'I JUST LIKE IT' preference. this has always distanced me from ppl on BBs talking about music, unsurprisingly. (It also explains why i tend to go for the 'poptimism=love' side of things, cos i don't spend time on stuff i don't like)

this is what i was getting at with my 'it exists, but it's not important'. (i was also wondering if anyone would go the extra step and deny my parenthetical 'though it exists'.)

i quite like Tom's approach which is not to say 'is this song of good/bad quality' but 'what is good about this song'. this is the +ve 'searching out' heuristic to complement my -ve 'what's not relavant'.

as such he out-poptimises me on my own terms (poptimism=love). thus he wins