This is the first time I've seen Patrick Wolf called pop I think! He is indie through and through.
Anyway, I am definitely open about my pop fandom - like Dave I try not to be overbearing about it in real life conversation but this goes for music fandom in general, esp to people I don't know that well. My main group of friends are all music lovers, and though a lot of them skew towards indie or dance, they're mostly basically pop-friendly or at least pop-tolerant - and music is a really integral part of how we socialise which probably helps. Plus, there's so much music that we collectively bond over that the music we disagree about is relatively unimportant.
I put up a massive list of acts I liked on my myspazz, inc pop acts, scattered amongst other stuff...I don't really want to have a similar massive list on facebook, it looks a bit lame and I don't want to have to keep updating it, right now it's basically four of my favourite artists right now and it may revolve. I was thinking of putting genres up there actually, of which pop would def be one. Actually I think these profiles are a v helpful way of pre-empting any possible real life 'controversy'.
I don't really think of anything I like as uncool...I'm aware that certain acts are perceived to be more credible, for whatever reason, than others, but...I dunno, cool/uncool is such a nebulous concept, it can shift completely according to what social circle you're in, and I take the view that liking 'uncool' music shouldn't make you 'uncool' yourself; rather the fact that I like it makes it 'cool' (because I think of myself as basically cool, and I think anyone who's secure in their music taste should also do this - I am heartily sick of people proclaiming their uncoolness, it's basically like wearing a T-shirt which says "I think I am lame"). Re: your lists I would totally call Backstreet Boys cool but not the Pipettes.
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Date: 2007-07-02 09:08 am (UTC)Anyway, I am definitely open about my pop fandom - like Dave I try not to be overbearing about it in real life conversation but this goes for music fandom in general, esp to people I don't know that well. My main group of friends are all music lovers, and though a lot of them skew towards indie or dance, they're mostly basically pop-friendly or at least pop-tolerant - and music is a really integral part of how we socialise which probably helps. Plus, there's so much music that we collectively bond over that the music we disagree about is relatively unimportant.
I put up a massive list of acts I liked on my myspazz, inc pop acts, scattered amongst other stuff...I don't really want to have a similar massive list on facebook, it looks a bit lame and I don't want to have to keep updating it, right now it's basically four of my favourite artists right now and it may revolve. I was thinking of putting genres up there actually, of which pop would def be one. Actually I think these profiles are a v helpful way of pre-empting any possible real life 'controversy'.
I don't really think of anything I like as uncool...I'm aware that certain acts are perceived to be more credible, for whatever reason, than others, but...I dunno, cool/uncool is such a nebulous concept, it can shift completely according to what social circle you're in, and I take the view that liking 'uncool' music shouldn't make you 'uncool' yourself; rather the fact that I like it makes it 'cool' (because I think of myself as basically cool, and I think anyone who's secure in their music taste should also do this - I am heartily sick of people proclaiming their uncoolness, it's basically like wearing a T-shirt which says "I think I am lame"). Re: your lists I would totally call Backstreet Boys cool but not the Pipettes.