Originally Posted by Severian

Saying an entire macro-genre of music is bad because you’re addicted to your outsider mentality is some childish nonsense but go off I guess.

You can dislike the idea of the “mainstream” without pretending all popular music is the same and terrible.

Originally Posted by choc e-Claire

I must say, for members of a generation that doesn't use TikTok, you're all acting surprisingly similarly to the people on it. You've all felt a bit off for the last month, is there something in the water?

Originally Posted by Diesel

All I know is If one finds themselves thinking the opposite to whatever Severian's saying then one can be rest assured in their opinion.

Why are you using Tik-Tok anyway? are ye some sort of cunt? :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by choc e-Claire

I must say, for members of a generation that doesn't use TikTok, you're all acting surprisingly similarly to the people on it. You've all felt a bit off for the last month, is there something in the water?

Originally Posted by Severian

Of course, the correct opinion is to not know or learn about something because you think it might not be cool enough.

Originally Posted by Diesel

Remember, It's not about how something sounds, It is how cool it is perceived to be :cool:

Originally Posted by Kuhb

If you can't tell the difference between 1960s pop in the form of The Beatles and 21st century pop in the form of lowest common denominator audio porn ringtone music written by 20 faceless droids behind the scenes then I don't know what to tell you

Originally Posted by Diesel

The only people allowed to listen to pop-music are children, the mentally deficient, Kim Gordon, Glice, and Skuj (because if he doesn't manage to peddle the latest Dua Lipa to the cunting masses he will die). The rest of you lot want rounding up and executing.

Originally Posted by Kuhb

Such is post post modern life, you can be accused of being closed minded for listening to the endless ocean of interesting, honest, ambitious, real music past and present at the expense of the algorithmically constructed, manufactured, co-co-co-co-co written slop we're told is music by virtue of its presence at the top of the charts/streams.

That's poptimism for you. You can't opt out of the pop. The pop must be embraced. The pop must be lauded lest you be cast out with the dads and dying.

Originally Posted by Severian

This. Yes.

I thought I was too old to be progressively minded musically, but here people are in 2024 acting like pop isn’t a worthwhile genre and to that I say: Are you fucking serious? Also, are you 18? Is it 1989? Are you late for your 2 a.m. shift at the campus radio station?

The fuck, man.

Indigo De Souza? Let’s Eat Grandma? Caroline Polachek? Beyoncé? Katy Kirby? Róisín Murphy? HAIM? Guerilla Toss? Stella Donnelly? Robyn? SOPHIE? Alvvays? Fucking Kim Carnes?! Annie Lennox?! Kate Bush?! Prince?!!

The fuck are we even doing here? Pop has cast such a wide net that diminishing it ALL on principle seems — what’s the word — dumber than shit.

Originally Posted by Diesel

Glice

Originally Posted by Skuj

I must get that Reputation thing and take a truckload to dump onto Severian's driveway.

Originally Posted by Genteel Death 2

Yes, and he would put forward more insightful and entertaining arguments in defence of the sort of pop music that's been discussed on this thread. There have been so many threads about pop artists on this forum before, it's nothing new or exciting. You like Charli XCX? Fine, nobody really gives a shit or is stopping you from listening to her music if you enjoy it.

Originally Posted by Severian

There are like 10 examples of people shitting on pop music in the last page and a half of this thread but OK dude

Originally Posted by Genteel Death 2

And still both you and Skuj did not manage to give an interesting or insightful reply to any of them. Carry on.

Originally Posted by Severian

Also, nobody’s given an “interesting or insightful” reason why people SHOULDN’T like pop music. Lmao.