“Why won’t the superbowl let Kid Rock play with an appearance from the original karate kid? They were relevant once! This is the worst kind of discrimination, discrimination against ME!”
“Why won’t the superbowl let Kid Rock play with an appearance from the original karate kid? They were relevant once! This is the worst kind of discrimination, discrimination against ME!”
Nah, that would be fine. Pop culture isn’t cool. Pop culture is (mostly) boring shit for the masses, because it is bland enough, that a majority of people don’t have an issue with it. You are fine if you only hear about it from your grown up magazine.
To each their own. I definitely used to just listen to my own punk shit and disdain pop but the older I get, the more I see value in something fun with a catchy beat that a lot of people can dance and sing to at once. The classic tunes I dig were also pop once before they became old people tunes.
It’s like anything, if all you listen to is pop, that’s probably not great but if you refuse to listen to any, you’re probably missing out.
If you had told 12-year-old me that someday I would enjoy Ace of Base, I would have thought you were an idiot. Yet here we are.
Hey, I really don’t want to talk you down or be destructive or anything. My point is on the contrary:
You are not uncool, lame or whatever, if you don’t know contemporary pop culture. There are some fine songs, everybody likes. They become classics, as you say. Most pop shit is just a short-lived fad, nobody will remember in a few months. If you like that kind of music, it is also absolutely fine.
Oh, my apologies, I didn’t meant to jump off the top ropes to defend pop culture etc. And absolutely, all sorts of routes to cool.
That being said, I’m a middle age man and am thus by classic definition, the anti cool.
Believe me, I have an over abundance of confidence, I know I’m cool in all the things that matter. But I also know that my time at the cultural forefront (whether your culture is pop, punk, underground, whatever) has passed, that’s off to the next generation.
I think of it like, while I still go to some of the larger underground events, I’m not one of the tastemakers that some of my friends were in our youth etc and I damn well won’t have heard of any of the bands but on the other hand, I am at the point where I can help out by buying all the merch.