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Swag Me The Fuck Out
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: Johnny C on 12 Dec 2009, 04:10 ---Cause there are people on here that I'd like to have this conversation with, people reading this forum who may be interested in it, and besides that there's an entirely different level and method of discourse between the people here than there is at a bar or a club re: Top 40.
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Look Johnny, just because you're scared of real life black people.
KharBevNor:
Yeah woo Lady GaGa!
Explain. Maybe in a seperate thread.
a pack of wolves:
--- Quote from: Cernunnos on 12 Dec 2009, 06:49 ---There is an entirely different level of discourse here precisely because top 40 music is not generally the target of discussion here. The lion's share of that kind of music is made with an entirely different level of criticism and a different set of criteria for its success in mind. To discuss it as we would discuss, say, Steve Reich, or Jets to Brazil or Fugazi or Godspeed you! Black Emperor would make absolutely no sense. Besides, I personally, and I bet a lot of others here, are here because a few years back I got sick of top 40. I had nowhere else to go but the Internet. Why would I, or anyone else in my position, want to start talking about it now? It hasn't gotten any better, and there's not half enough hipster irony in the whole western world to hide it.
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This is just completely false. For a start, I've seen people talk about plenty of top 40 music on here and nobody bats an eyelid, and let's be honest here it's because it's top 40 guitar bands which are for some reason more acceptable. And why can't I talk about R. Kelly or Dizzee Rascal in a similar way to how someone would talk about Jets To Brazil? Is it because they've got far more diverse bodies of work than Jets To Brazil? Or due to the fact that they've had a much bigger impact on contemporary music perhaps? Please, explain why they're somehow lesser than the things you like just because more people listen to their music.
Besides, wouldn't you agree that there are some pretty good reasons to talk about culture that's immensely widespread and popular? There might be different reasons behind its creation but that doesn't mean nothing interesting or enjoyable is going on in the music.
Mind you, someone complaining about people talking about things other than top 40 hip-hop and r&b when they could just make a thread for that is a bit silly.
pilsner:
For shits sake just start a top 40 thread, we've had them before, it's not a big deal.
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: a pack of wolves on 12 Dec 2009, 09:30 --- Please, explain why they're somehow lesser than the things you like just because more people listen to their music.
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Come on. He never said the things he liked were better, he said they were different. I can quite easily accept that the criticism of Top 40 music has got to be different to the criticism of indie music just based on the different criteria for judging value that are involved.
--- Quote ---Besides, wouldn't you agree that there are some pretty good reasons to talk about culture that's immensely widespread and popular?
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AIDS is pretty widespread too dude.
LOL
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