Where is the love?

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

So we're all resigned to a bit of a slump in pop and teenpop, but... am I imagining it, or is everyone getting spikey about music in general? I know "I Love Music" has rarely lived up to its name in the last 5 years, but it does feel like a lot of stuff (new stuff) is getting ACTIVE dislike more than seems usual (or healthy, to me).

Is this because things are "on the move" and people are trying harder to be "taste makers"?

Or perhaps I am just imagining it, and no explanation is needed.

Settle my mind, or solve my conundrum.

Comments

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

But given that ILM is both typical (of the kinds of ways people think they ought to talk about music in public) and not at all typical (because overly jaded, aware of talking about music in public) I wouldn't draw too many conclusions based on observing it. More than ever I feel that it represents an alternative observation post on the 'centre', at the point where everything is happening at the margins. Most people on ILM speak from the disappointed middle, rather than as passionate advocates of their particular localism. (e.g. they are the old Marxists rather than the new social movements, and we await a Foucault of music-talk to think it out (or rather, pay more attention to Chuck and (sort of) Frank)).