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poptimistsLets talk about TRENDS.
In fact, let's talk about the EXISTENCE of trends - on the Lex's LJ in a recent post dubdobdee said he basically didn't believe in them, or at least found them harmful as a way of thinking about stuff (dunno if he was specifically referring to music or what). Boyofbadgers agreed.
I am interested in this perspective - do you think that thinking about music in terms of trends is useful? Do you think the ebbs and flows of musical fashion as documented by journalists has any relation to real life experience? If anyone else likes it, is it a bonus? (Or a PENALTY?)
Am I being too vague?
In fact, let's talk about the EXISTENCE of trends - on the Lex's LJ in a recent post dubdobdee said he basically didn't believe in them, or at least found them harmful as a way of thinking about stuff (dunno if he was specifically referring to music or what). Boyofbadgers agreed.
I am interested in this perspective - do you think that thinking about music in terms of trends is useful? Do you think the ebbs and flows of musical fashion as documented by journalists has any relation to real life experience? If anyone else likes it, is it a bonus? (Or a PENALTY?)
Am I being too vague?
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Date: 2007-11-01 03:23 pm (UTC)But the thing I have against "trends" is that "most popular" are "which way the punters are voting" tells us so little - which punters? how to extrapolate any meaningful conclusions from this totally nebulous situation of eg one club being more popular than others - never mind that there might be different people there each week, that they could all be there for different reasons, that it might be only a small part of what they do and where they go...