Very true, related issue is that conceding L's (typically by being forced to) seems to be a path for many countries and individuals alike to cook their brains. The taking L's business sure is messy
a million hard boiled egg and caviar on knackebrod sandwiches just cried out in pain
The two secrets to music subcultures is people who actually get good at music tend towards being dorks in some way or other (affectionate), which always makes *x music is cool y music is embarassing* takes kinda funny. The other secret is the first Arctic Monkeys lounge jazz album is good, sort of?
Arctic Monkeys becoming a lounge jazz act (which is what their last two albums are in conversation with lowkey) demonstrates my point, and the folly of anyone making Being/Feeling Cool a central part of their musical identity. Those guys were the *coolest indie sleaze guys* once upon a time imo
If there's one thing I'm willing to grant our era it's perhaps the tragicomic cartoonishness of it all is somewhat unprecedented
i rag on it a lot but i really do love the complicated, Very Self Serious but also Goofy ass Europe i grew up in
Don't remember where I heard this, so it might be completely wrong, but I have encountered the take media execs who wanted to feel like they understood writing and so could feel confident telling writers what to do would read it, to deleterious effect, lol
This is new and interesting information to me, and I did assume you'd find plenty of moralizing trope rhetoric on there at the very least in the forums, but the unevenness of old/new pages isn't something I've run into personally in my limited experiences of tvt
Yeah I think I went through something adjacent to what Mallow describes (grief/disillusionment over how much people in your vicinity are willing to compromise on small l liberal values). To process it I tried to imagine how previous eras could prompt that experience, and there's plenty to go around
Yeah no I dont think we can lay it all at their feet by a long shot, but i certainly don't think they helped y'know. And it's a useful shorthand for a particular type of thinking I think it's good to point out the limitations of
