Listening With Context
Jul. 10th, 2007 04:42 pm![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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poptimistsFollowing up from the poll (poor old Incubus)
Do you carry in your head an idea of the "average listener" as any kind of reference point? Did you ever? (whether you defined yrself for or against her/him)
aka - who ARE these "masses", anyway?
Do you carry in your head an idea of the "average listener" as any kind of reference point? Did you ever? (whether you defined yrself for or against her/him)
aka - who ARE these "masses", anyway?
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Date: 2007-07-10 06:02 pm (UTC)- the non-obsessive about popular music - "12 CD man/woman" as we used to simplify them to on ILM. My sister and her family would be representatives of said majority. They exist as an important reality check, but I don't worry particularly about not being like them or them not being like me.
- people who phone in to Radio 1, requesting records or entering competitions (and going apeshit when they win). This is a much more puzzling community to me. I wish I understood them better.