The Friday Canon

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It wasn't Simply Red. Sorry.


You have SEVEN ticks from the Red Hot Chili Peppers' surprisingly large range of UK Top 40 hits. Use them wisely.

[Poll #995309]

Normal canon service is resumed next week!

Comments

[dickmalone.livejournal.com]

A parallel test case for me is the Beastie Boys--in the 90s they had a similar level and kind of fandom, I remember someone telling me they saw them at a festival and were overwhelmed by US military people moshing, which given how she knew the Beasties was super incongruous. (Similar thing for old RHCP fans I imagine.) But the Beasties, instead of rolling with it like RHCP did, went and embraced Buddhism and took themselves seriously and went "old-school" and got really, really boring. They redeemed themselves but simultaneously wrote themselves out of existence, almost.

So is this a better way of dealing with it, a worse way, or just a different way?

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the tragedy there is that the Beasties did it all in pretty good humour, until po-facedness happened, whereas RCHP always seemed to take themselves v v seriously even when they were attempting to do goofy things to convince us that they too were having a laugh.

Surprising your audience is surely a good way of dealing with a perceived image problem, even if it doesn't quite work out the way you'd like?