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Teen pop icons like Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera had successful transitions into adulthood, while Jessica Simpson turned reality TV star and Mandy Moore turned genuine actress (for pity's sake, we will ignore Britney Spears' horrifying descent into white trash abyss).
I genuinely hate most of the "Popular" culture that's goin' on today!
You?
Dunno... the Ga Gas are a pretty good band. Go listen to Replica or Sex.
Most of the popular music these days is crap. There have been some good new rock groups lately though. :)
I pretty much dislike everything that's played on Casey's Top 40, and I completely detest boybands and pop princesses.
Pop culture is not genuine.
I hate pop culture. Pop culture simply takes whats becoming popular, eats, barfs it up again in a horrible, distorted form, then lets it die. It happened to Hip-Hop, a once respectable(ish) form of music, and to R&B (but that sucked anyway). It's even doing it to metal. Damn it, the pop-beast devours all!
Also, pop-culture encourages people to aim for unrealistic goals of stardom, which discourages them doing any real work.
Find the music that's good and you like. Don't ever choose music based on the Billboard Top 200 or whatever. Many people that listen to music listen to it because it's popular and the cool thing to do, but little do they realize that they are actually listening to garbage.
And like it or not, I can pretty much objectively tell you that the music I listen to is better than a lot of the music that's popular today.
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Originally Posted by Yamaneko
Yam that's a pretty pretentious comment.
That doens't mean, however, that I don't agree with you wholeheartedly,
because you are into awesome music.
I think the same way though usually, but I don't necessarily say that it's
objective. The music I like is better than the music most other people like,
and if you disagree with that you're wrong.
:)
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Not everything that's pop culture is utter crap...but most of it is. That happens because the masses don't have refined taste and will buy whatever is given them, I suppose.
People who will only listen to music if it's popular are annoying, but so are people who hate anything that is popular.
Is it that hard to believe that there is both good mainstream and underground stuff?
However much i despise this music, Other people do like it. Some pop singers are actually really good but just not my thing
I'm not one for pop music or pop culture in general, it more often than not reeks of mental degredation at its best (or worst, whichever you prefer).
Of course, I listen to classical music, which many people like to less-than-affectionately dub "old people music".
But the joke's on them. I will still have hearing when I'm old.
meh, everything is crap at the moment, pop and rap are taking a head first dive into showbiz's dark era and rock has turned pop punk and everything seems too soft nowadays.
They all have writers' block...oh wait they employ people to write these lyrics
I love it. All of it.
Hi,
My name is John. I listen to Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance and just about every other poppy, studio molested, untalented punk band signed by Fueled By Ramen. I would appreciate cliquey cynical sarcasm and false generalizations.
Thanks.
I don't even know what I think anymore. I listen to what I like. If it happens to be "pop" or "mainstream", or whatever the hell you want to call it...then so be it. Whatever pleases my ears.
Although Jessica Simpson, Good Charlotte, Britney Spears, P. Diddy, none of those appeal to me.
Meh, I guess. MEH MEH MEH
If you play Final Fantasy, you buy into mainstream culture/pop-culture. Serious.
I pretty much agree with kikimm. I listen to whatever I like, and I like a LOT of different things. :)
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Originally Posted by fire_of_avalon
It all depends really. Most suck, some don't. Just gotta find what you like and stick with it.
I don't ever know what's going on in modern popular culture.
No, There just not to your liking......Quote:
Originally Posted by Rye
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If you play Final Fantasy, you buy into mainstream culture/pop-culture. Serious.
As soon as you start to find new music that becomes popular 'bad' you are offically old.
Not really- I understand what you mean, but there's a difference between buying and buying into- if you buy FF, you can still think for yourself, and make up your own mind about stuff. While, if you buy into pop-culture, you surrender your mind to the Record Companies, the clothes companies, and all those other little envoys of Stan. (Yes, evil Stan, lord of the nega-verse!)Quote:
Originally Posted by fire_of_avalon
Of course, any one who actually does buy into pop-culture barely has a mind anyway, so no great loss.
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Not really- I understand what you mean, but there's a difference between buying and buying into- if you buy FF, you can still think for yourself, and make up your own mind about stuff. While, if you buy into pop-culture, you surrender your mind to the Record Companies, the clothes companies, and all those other little envoys of Stan. (Yes, evil Stan, lord of the nega-verse!)
Of course, any one who actually does buy into pop-culture barely has a mind anyway, so no great loss.
Err...
FF doesn't really represent mainstream culture. In fact, the only culture it has any connection to is manga-anime type people, which is hardly mainstream. At least outside of Japan.
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Originally Posted by fire_of_avalon
Not lying about the crap though.
Yeah well, I don't buy the FF being mainstream thing. In the world of
RPGs, it's definitely mainstream. But in the world of videogames, RPGs
aren't even the biggest category, and in the world of all entertainment,
video games are just a little piece of all the media out there.
It's like saying that One Winged Angel is mainstream. Granted among
people who are into Nobuo's music it's probably his most popular song,
but look at the percentage of people who are into his music with those
who aren't. You'll be lucky to find 1 person in 100 who's a big fan.
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That's not what I was refering to. What I meant was 'why does liking pop culture automatically make you a mindless moron?'Quote:
Originally Posted by Traitorfish
What is pop? And why bother hating it?
So we can feel superior listening to "better" or "less mainstream" music.
Oh, it's a manifestation of little-dick syndrome, then.
Most of the bands I like WERE mainstream during a time when artists had more freedom to do what they wanted to do. Everything changed in the late 70's when studios began to look into image and style (what sells) rather than content. Granted, much of the music I like is from the 80's and 90's, but man there was some terrible stuff then, and still is today. Nowadays you do have to look harder to find good music.
Indeed. Most of my favorite artists were mainstream several centuries ago. My how times change.Quote:
Most of the bands I like WERE mainstream during a time when artists had more freedom to do what they wanted to do. Everything changed in the late 70's when studios began to look into image and style (what sells) rather than content. Granted, much of the music I like is from the 80's and 90's, but man there was some terrible stuff then, and still is today. Nowadays you do have to look harder to find good music.
That's only if you started with FFVII or above. :)Quote:
If you play Final Fantasy, you buy into mainstream culture/pop-culture. Serious.