Music as conversation

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

New Pitchfork column by me on answer records, fan fiction, music as conversation... thanks to piratemoggy for her help putting this one together!

http://pitchfork.com/features/poptimist/7635-poptimist-21/

Comments

Re: expansion

[koganbot]

It's fandom where you're allowed to dislike what you like.

Re: expansion

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Many people in Harry Potter fandom dislike Rowling's books immensely. *g*

Re: expansion

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

yeah isn't the impetus behind a lot of fanfic "we like the characters, but we can do the stories so much better"? (i don't know anything about fanfic really, this might be small-minded of me but i am slightly terrified of it.)

Re: expansion

[edgeofwhatever.livejournal.com]

Oh, you can definitely dislike what you like in fandom. Some of the most epic (as in long, not necessarily good) fics are the result of people saying things like, "The X-Files jumped the shark in season seven, so I'm going to write an alternate season seven which doesn't suck."

Fic is also a way of criticizing or exploring certain aspects of what you like. For example, confession: I wrote a metric fuckton of Battlestar Galactica femslash, and most those fics grew out of conversations about the lack of (a) queer characters on BSG, and (b) meaningful relationships between women on BSG. I also wrote something called doppelcest, where you basically make the character and the actor have sex with each other, and that was just because I was interested in the ways in which characters and actors could intersect. I mean, in my experience, fic is just a critical discussion masquerading as a story.

Re: expansion

[petronia.livejournal.com]

in my experience, fic is just a critical discussion masquerading as a story

Yeah, this is my experience too... that and pr0n obv...

Re: expansion

[edgeofwhatever.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah. Critical pr0n.