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[poptasticuk.livejournal.com]

Following on from the discussions of what we are 'supposed to like', I thought I would pose the question: How open are you about your pop fandom to your friends? And how about new people you meet?

This was also triggered by thinking about music lists on sites like MySpace and Facebook. The artists I list on there are all ones I like, but there are some big emissions - Bodies Without Organs, Backstreet Boys, Darren Hayes. Some of my all time favourites but there is no mention of them on my MySpace or Facebook. When you're filling out these things you have to think of every person who might see it, and even though I am confident enough in my poptasticness to say that I like pop music, I prefer to list the lesser known poppy bands (such as Robyn and Margaret Berger), or the slightly more critically acclaimed ones (Patrick Wolf or The Pipettes, for eg). How do those of you who use these sites deal with this issue? Do you think anyone is completely honest?

Comments

[celentari.livejournal.com]

My MySpace and Facebook music is copied over directly from an iTunes list of everything on my iPod - total honesty. The thing that appealed to me about Poptimists when I first joined was the "guilty pleasures aren't guilty" attitude, although obviously that turns out just to be an inversion of what would be considered a guilty pleasure by others - I wouldn't tend to advertise the indie-rock aspects of my music fandoms here, since Poptimists has the exact same attitude to that sort of thing as some indie rockers have to pop.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Poptimists are ALL SEKRIT INDIE FANS, seriously! See indieguilt innit...

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Some of us are NOT!

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

You are! I've never heard of 90% of the people you talk about, you're just not Jo Whily indie, which is a wholly different bag and not one most of the rest of us are in, either, innit.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Because they're dance, mostly!

[koganbot]

I'm not indie. I'm punk. And glitter.

Thx

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Even my iRiver isn't completely representative. Stuff that I buy to listen to often doesn't intersect with the pop that I would dance to and enjoy at a disco club. So there's all sorts of things that I love that I don't have copies of and hear often enough or know well enough that I don't see the need to get a copy.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

what kat said. we're all indieists rly (lex in particular ;)), and i certainly wouldn't like to think that there was anything that couldn't be discussed, although obv yr going to have get a hard time defending mika or james blunt...

[poptasticuk.livejournal.com]

I love that inversion of attitudes. I've always had it, probably stemming from my reading of late 90s Smash Hits, where rockers were mocked and popstars were cool and indie was boring, so it's the big appeal of Poptimists and sites like Popjustice that they share that approach. I do have some guilty pleasures, but I think they're more the more MOR types of music I like, such as Maroon 5 - I think their new album is brilliant but it's hard to find a Poptimist who'd agree with me, even though bands who are less poppy and sell comparatively few records (e.g. MIA) can still be pretty popular on Poptimists.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Maroon 5's last single got a respectable 13 ticks on the weekly poll, but I doubt many of them have checked out the album.