"shoegaze" album

>"shoegaze" album
>it's just britpop with reverb

i know iknow

>Radiohead album
>it's faux-krautrock with Thom crooning on top of it

>Radiohead album
>it's actually a rip-off of the U2 aesthetic trying to sound like Pink Floyd

>"album"
>tracks do not have an underlying theme or even flow into each other

you must be fun at parties

but that's literally what shoegaze is

>rockism

;^)

uh no

>"shoegaze" album
>it's actually a noise pop album

explain

>shoegaze
>dream pop
>having literally two different names for the same fucking thing

Dream pop is more ambient and spacey

Dream Pop is better anyways

I liked this guy on How I Met Your Mother

should have been just Ambient Fuzz Rock

>rockist
>makes post like there's any validity to them

>"Post-Rock" album
>It sure is shitty

>poptmist

that's actually a good thing

>poptmist
>makes post like there's any validity to them

This meme

poptimism > rockism

>The War on Drugs album
>it's just beer commercial rock

...

Yeah, but it's annoying when people call a Noise Pop album Shoegaze

Implying Britpop with reverb is not a bad thing

>implying "rockism" is inherently bad
>implying concept albums aren't just another form of song cycles, which were done by composers way before albums were invented
>implying concept albums aren't a fantastic idea even if they did stem from the technical limitations of older forms of technology
>implying a sense of narrative and common theme doesn't elevate even basic pop music above the sum of its parts

pic related

>implying "poptimism" isn't the most vapid and contrarian meme in the music scene
>implying defining yourself by your opposition to a culture isn't at least as vapid and shallow as whatever culture you're rebelling against.