Can a music matter if its fans don't especially want to read about it?

revive!

so the last decade implies an answer: "yes! as long as music critics wanna WRITE about it!"

"poptimism"=writing about kinds of music whose fans don't care for reading about music.

(and, often, writing from the standpoint of "giving a voice" to those fans and their values, which are implicitly or explicitly evoked as a rebuke to the evils of rockism)

Moratorium on anyone who started posting on ILM after 2004 using the word "poptimism". Ever.

hey, I used quotation marks! would you prefer "anti-rockism"?

Dancing about music is a bit like sitting down about architecture, singing for people that can't dance.

what about people who just like pop music without making a big movement out of it

if the audience for writing about music was the same size as the audience for music, there'd be many more music publications and jobs for writers. QED

q: can a music matter

Anybody who doesn't read about the music that matters to them is a poseur

Music only matters if it's worth reading about, screw listening, let alone thinking for yourself.

What if everyone that chips in their twopenneth on the music you like depresses the fuck out of you, so you choose to avoid their discussions?

#ILX