Poptimism THORT for the day

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"pop is a map of the world at large (everything else is a map of 1xcommunity at small)"

That one submitted by dubdobdee.

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

in the review i'm right now writing (promise today but they're getting it tomorrow) i'm arguing that jim morrison's line "they've got the guns but we've got the numbers" was an actual real element of the sense of (counter-culture) community for a while in the 60s: that mass pop success was her-and-now on its way because a genuine voice-of-the-people democracy is being born (in the charts and in the world)

i think this sense of the charts as a citadel to be seized is something it's quite hard to recapture (if we even want to) -- "we are the world" seems a silly thing to say, but there was a time when it was a potent (not to say frightening) declaration

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Well it isn't quite true to say that nobody thinks of themselves as "a mass" - it's more that mass-ness is a device people use or discard as necessary to bolster an individual standpoint. But I don't think "mass" is part of many people's core identity, in the way that their gender or ethnicity or job or even hobbies might be.