I want someone to write a take on rockism that explains how Phil Collins and Steely Dan were the two uncoolest things imaginable to rockist gen x-ers but are both loved by rockist millenials. I have no idea what zoomers think of them, if anything
― soref, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 15:27 (one year ago) link
the early definitions on this thread are interesting in how diverse they are. what I'm getting is that rockism is a lot like fascism in how syncretic and incoherent it is and how many different guises can wear. someone could write a thing on ur-rockism like umberto eco did for fascism
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 15:38 (one year ago) link
"We wanted go back to the sound of just four guys in a gym."
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 16:13 (one year ago) link
i prefer 'whinerism'
― CerebralCaustic, Thursday, 9 February 2023 00:02 (one year ago) link
Why don't we ask Freddie deBoer
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 February 2023 00:03 (one year ago) link
runner up: crypto-poptimists & crypto-rockists
― CerebralCaustic, Thursday, 9 February 2023 00:06 (one year ago) link
Kelefa Sanneh, Robert Christgau, and Douglas Wolk are the sages quoted in this. 2024 rockism style. the battle never ends.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c7Boc2CPMg
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 16:50 (two days ago) link
Intergenerational!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 17:30 (two days ago) link
i will never watch one of that person's videos, not sure if that makes me pro or anti rockism
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 17:48 (two days ago) link
idk this person + they just said, "it's almost like the more critical your opinion is, the more valid it is" and i like that they're calling this out, especially in re:"flops." he isn't making this point outright, but my conclusion to be drawn from his points is that "rockism" is kind of anti-appreciation, unless a very strict set of arbitrary and ill-defined rules are in place. i like that being called out.
otherwise, good video. brings up relevant new examples to support the old anti-rockism tropes.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 17:53 (two days ago) link
it sucks people can’t write stuff down instead of requiring people to stare at their face while they talk at them
― brimstead, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 17:59 (two days ago) link
that guy is okay. i actually enjoy his genre videos. he does good quick histories of things and he brings up examples that you wouldn't expect him to bring up. he makes good connections. he's more of a metal/punk person.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 18:12 (two days ago) link
He was less cringe inducing than most Talking to the camera guys
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 18:18 (two days ago) link
it sucks people can’t write stuff down instead of requiring people to stare at their face while they talk at them― brimstead, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 17:59 (forty-two minutes ago) link
― brimstead, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 17:59 (forty-two minutes ago) link
taking an online course right now and the prof loves making videos and barely types anything up, there are times where i have to scroll through a 17-minute video to discover a class policy that would take me 10 seconds at most to find on a legit syllabus
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 18:45 (two days ago) link
unrelated to rockism i suppose but i also wish people wrote things down instead of making videos
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 18:46 (two days ago) link
We’re entering the post-literate society
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 18:48 (two days ago) link
Writism
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 18:49 (two days ago) link
Writing is the rockism of human comm
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 18:49 (two days ago) link
One guy in a room with a typewriter
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 18:51 (two days ago) link
So where's the thread for complaining abt video (audio to tbh) as preferred mode of communication? Ours is undoubtedly a civilisation in decline
Images of text too... What is the fucking deal? I get meme templates, at least I know where they originated, but wtf is up with images of small chunks of horribly formatted text?
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 19:50 (two days ago) link
hot medium/cool medium iirc
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 19:53 (two days ago) link
i just heard about civilization in decline on a vid by plato, why do new school kids need to have one name all the time
― well below the otm mendoza line (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 01:27 (yesterday) link
we do have this fwiw
Music Criticism in Video Form
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 02:27 (yesterday) link
ah yeah forgot about that one.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 02:27 (yesterday) link