Poptimist #4

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

NOW 100% MORE META: my column for Pitchfork this month, spinning out of a Poptimists post last week.

Comments

Re: A few cents' worth (the remix)

[koganbot]

Virtue in sneering at the reader: Richard Meltzer sneering at the rock fans - e.g. me - for building up rock in fawning art appreciation terms and in effect debasing themselves before it; so the sneer was meant to tear down the debasement, not just the debased. But also, he liked being mean.

Re: A few cents' worth (the remix)

[koganbot]

"e.g. me" meaning that at age 15 when I started reading him I identified with a lot of the rock and the terms that were being used to build it up, not that he was sneering at me by name. (That came in 2000.) He wouldn't have know who I was.