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]

see i think I had a different 'quality' in mind, because

"Disappaearance of quality" = disappearance of anything's having an impact on anything else

just doesn't follow in my head. Music can have a variety of impacts, pleasurable/desirable or otherwise, on me totally REGARDLESS of 'quality'. perhaps this is down to mark's attempt to disentangle the possible meanings above.

i. = characteristic (someone is totally undiscerning = can't tell one song fron another)
ii. = value as linked in to a particular discussion-sphere

When people talk about "quality songs" or "poor quality songs" that's not poptimism at work. It's not a bad thing in itself, but stuff already exists to deal with those dimensions, and poptimism should concern itself elsewhere where work isn't being done.