https://variety.com/2020/music/reviews/selena-gomez-rare-album-review-1203463571/
“Rare” is one of the best pop albums to be released in recent memory, and — as it does for artists ranging from Robyn and Charli XCX to Max Martin’s more adventurous productions — it feels like that term does a discredit to this sophisticated, precisely written and expertly produced music.
― Don’t yell ‘Judas!’ in a crowded theater (morrisp), Saturday, 11 January 2020 04:52 (four years ago) link
lol
― dyl, Saturday, 11 January 2020 06:20 (four years ago) link
Perhaps they should call it something like Sophistipop
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Saturday, 11 January 2020 14:51 (four years ago) link
In the new movie Trolls World Tour, it is revealed that Trolls representing all different genres (and sub-genres) of music used to live in harmony, but are now separated. Queen Barb of the Hard Rock Trolls (Ozzy plays their senile king) sets out to conquer all the other lands, making Hard Rock the only music. Our heroes, the Pop Trolls, have to save the day and unite all the genres again. Barb hates Pop, says it’s “not real music, too repetitive, the lyrics stink,” etc. I won’t tell you how it ends!
― morrisp, Saturday, 11 April 2020 18:50 (three years ago) link
Stereogum had a whole piece about this on Friday.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 11 April 2020 18:54 (three years ago) link
I won’t tell you how it ends!
― force ghost bg (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 11 April 2020 19:38 (three years ago) link
xp Terribly written piece, desperately straining for a “critique” and misrepresenting basic plot points to do it.
― morrisp, Saturday, 11 April 2020 19:47 (three years ago) link
Until utopia is achieved and everyone makes an effort to enjoy that obscure and much-maligned art we call pop music while its devotees do absolutely nothing to meaningfully engage with other subgenres even as they clamour for more inclusivity, the need for endearingly didactic allegories will continue unabated.
― coviderunt omnes (pomenitul), Saturday, 11 April 2020 20:02 (three years ago) link
Part of the story is that Pop snuffed out musical diversity in the past, but you’d have to watch the movie to know that.
― morrisp, Saturday, 11 April 2020 20:06 (three years ago) link
Care to tell us more? (Not trolling, for real.)
― coviderunt omnes (pomenitul), Saturday, 11 April 2020 20:08 (three years ago) link
Never mind, I just read the plot synopsis on Wikipedia.
― coviderunt omnes (pomenitul), Saturday, 11 April 2020 20:13 (three years ago) link
― morrisp
truly, Trolls World Tour demands more thoughtful and incisive social commentary than this piece delivers
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 11 April 2020 21:51 (three years ago) link
It doesn’t, but if someone’s going for that they should do it better.
― morrisp, Saturday, 11 April 2020 21:52 (three years ago) link
Caramanica did a piece on this for NYT, of course
Now that there's an entire Trolls movie about rockism and poptimism maybe we can finally be done ever using those words or concepts again
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Thursday, 16 April 2020 18:55 (three years ago) link
+1 to that
― morrisp, Thursday, 16 April 2020 19:00 (three years ago) link
people are writing about poptimism and rockism, in this economy??????
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 16 April 2020 19:00 (three years ago) link
Aimee Mann:
By 1990, everything on the radio was starting to be Whitney Houston, Taylor Dayne, Tina Turner—it was very pop. Then Michael Penn comes out with this Beatles-esque, melodic song, but still with a little bit of a big snare drum sound. I was like, “Finally, somebody broke through with an actual song.”
― yes m!ch!gan - the feeling's forever (morrisp), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 02:23 (three years ago) link
A poptimist would have married Taylor Dayne.
― actually-very-convincing (Sund4r), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 02:34 (three years ago) link
The 1975’s Brits nomination proves great pop isn’t always drowned out by mindless gym music
― Alba, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 12:48 (one year ago) link
lol amazing
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 12:56 (one year ago) link
While making the album, The 1975 sought to capture the pure essence of their band – to simply “play it and record it,” as Healy told the New York Times last year. “Any kid can make a bedroom thing that sounds crazy,” he said. “What you can’t do is have been in a band for 20 years and be great players and go into a room and have that freedom.” The resulting album makes you feel as if you were in the room with the band as they recorded it.
Wow irl Aging rock act on new album: This time we wanted to go back to the basics guys in a room
― Auf Der Martini (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 13:03 (one year ago) link
If you're not listening to the 1975, you're probably at the gym
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 13:11 (one year ago) link
Have they really been together for 20 years?
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 13:16 (one year ago) link
Sounds like rockism is her weapon of choice for generation warfare. At the same time wishing for music that unites everyone by soundtracking our lives like Elton John.
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 13:17 (one year ago) link
I'm a rockist man
Burning out his fuse up here alone
― Auf Der Martini (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 13:21 (one year ago) link
the opossite of thinking pop music with dubious quality (taylor swift, beyonce, the weekend, drake...) is relevant: the opposite of rockism... and both wrong
― CerebralCaustic, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 13:43 (one year ago) link
i miss the days when all new posters like this were considered to be a sock
― imago, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 14:00 (one year ago) link
sockism
― imago, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 14:01 (one year ago) link
― Auf Der Martini (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 14:14 (one year ago) link
it's more fun if you call them shit instead of not relevant - you'd be half wrong but have some courage in your own subjectivity
what's the rockism of appeals-to-relevance? it's a real thing and you can do it for or against rock or pop or whatever
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 14:49 (one year ago) link
It’s a far cry from previous decades, when artists like Elton John, Kate Bush and Phil Collins – who made music about grown-up concerns, which could be enjoyed by teens alike – soundtracked our lives. (It’s no surprise that this is the current state of pop in a country whose music industry is, according to the charts, propped up by a holy trinity of po-faced men: Ed Sheeran, George Ezra and Lewis Capaldi.)
I like Phil Collins but also it's very funny to use Phil Collins as an example here (and surely Phil is at least as po-faced as Sheeran, Ezra and Capaldi?)
― soref, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 15:23 (one year ago) link
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