What the fuck is Poptimism????

What the fuck is Poptimism????

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Its when you listen to american tune by ajj while belittling minorities and raping women.

optimistic about pop bullshit

>h-hey guys kanyes new album is good r-right?

A term used by bitter losers who are upset that they can no longer weaponise our love of top 40 against us.

To wit

It's essentially a reaction to the snobbery of rock fans/critics and their dismissal of pop music.

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triggered

Basically this. Poptimism is a movement in music journalism/review culture that rejects the idea that pop music is inherently more low brow than other types of music, specifically rock music. More broadly, poptimism asserts that genre is irrelevant to the quality of the album - you can give meaningful, similarly high ratings to Taylor Swift, My Bloody Valentine, and Sun Ra without invalidating yourself. It's a predicatable byproduct of internet music culture giving listeners access to pretty much any and every piece of recorded music at any time.

the victory of capitalism over the modern spirit

Both songs are garbage.

compared to?

An attempt by a failing music industry to get "serious" music listeners into top 40

well said

get a load of this faggot

Pop tim mism
Jesus merlin dracula
Twilight
Donnie darcko
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Poptimism is a lie. Amen

these

>Shitting on Aoty2014(perdition temple)

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A subjectivist movement to convince people that "all music is of equal worth"
Note that no one actually listens to the newest Taylor Swift album, poptimists just let it play in the background and afterwards go tell their friends how tolerant and open-minded they are for listening to top 40 music

Hipsters that got tired of being called hipsters so they pretend to like pop so they can still be in the "in" crowd.

>metal
This board is 18+

I agree. The next flavor-of-the-month dream pop or black metal release is objectively worth more than pop music because muh originality muh artistry.

Kill yourself grandpa.

So those clowns forgot that the two most acclaimed albums of all time are Sgt. Peppers and Pet Sounds both POP ALBUMS.

Poptimism more like retardimism.

It's such a bizarre concept. It's not as simple as listening to pop music (I'm sure most of us have a guilty pleasure or two) but it's giving all pop music the regard one would to actually well-written pieces of music, because said pop may have been "the product of a singular artistic vision" despite being realized by a small army (Beyonce), "almost entirely produced by a single person" despite the fact that this doesn't make the music itself any better (Grimes) or "a stylistic throwback currently absent from the mainstream" despite the fact that less mainstream artists have been doing the same for decades (Carly Rae Jepsen).

You're proving my point because you're implying that original and artistic music is just as good as corporate top 40 music.

Read my post again.

Putting "muh" before something implies that it is irrelevant or a waste of time.

>The next flavor-of-the-month dream pop or black metal release
>flavor-of-the-month
wew, see if you can figure out the subtext with the clue I just gave you

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Underage pls go

It's an attempt to feel smugly superior to those who dislike pop music.

So really it's just another flavour of contrarianism, has nothing to do with the actual quality of the music, and has everything to do with image.

Trips don't lie

nice argument buddo

You're implying that said "flavor-of-the-month" release is praised for being original and/or artistic.

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It's the belief that just because something is popular doesn't mean it's garbage.

Poptimism is the ignorant belief that, even though artists like Kanye West, Taylor Swift, Rhianna, Frank Ocean, etc. are all watered down, corporate, and inauthentic; because they are "popular," that means they must still have value.

This is equivalent to say Budweiser is the best beer because it is The King of Beers, when in reality it is so watered down and placated for mainstream consumption that it carries no individual or artistic value.

No it's the belief that if edgelords on the internet think it sucks then it's automatically good.

It is this.All it is, is just a way for salespeople to intellectualize commercial music to make it marketable by deeming authenticity irrelevant.

You can't sell anything these days without writing a "manifesto" on why it's important.

>Sanneh further accuses rockism of representing a sexist, racist, and homophobic point of view. Sanneh writes: "In The New York Times Book Review, Sarah Vowell approvingly recalled Nirvana's rise: 'A group with loud guitars and louder drums knocking the whimpering Mariah Carey off the top of the charts.' Why did the changing of the guard sound so much like a sexual assault? And when did we all agree that Nirvana's neo-punk was more respectable than Ms. Carey's neo-disco?"[3]

Liking pop music.

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