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

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

"tastes are separating out into niches, even if people will happily enjoy more than one"

i think this is what i am feeling when i say things are "on the move". and perhaps this is as much my own insecurity as things move on.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

There's a kind of aggressively impatient eclecticism on ILM which manifests most frequently in the idea that arguments about rockism / popism are over (i.e. historically out of date, not over because they're boring) but also as a kind of narrow consensus, if that makes any sense. At the same time there's the bloggist call of 'Next please' all the time, in which the whirling succession of new stuff ends up looking dreary compared with the (apparently, but not actually) stable canon of Good Old Trusty stuff.

I suppose a counterargument to mine would be that this is a time of tremendous change really, and that those are the times when people most insistently look backwards for assured value.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

...and get most irked about not finding it in the new stuff.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

obv I am speculating wildly and welcome someone to come along and go 'nonsense'!