How Pop Music Stopped

[Wilfrid]

Torturing myself with the MTV VMAs. Maybe I don’t get it because I am an old fart and the kids obviously love it.

Fergie (47)

Snoop (50)

Nicki Minaj (39)

LL Cool J (54)

Eminem (49)

It’s inconceivable that when I was in my teens and twenties I’d be watching something like this. God knows why I am watching it now.

[Wilfrid]

Oh god Cheech and Chong who were before my time and now the Chili Peppers, it’s sad if this means anything to the target audience. 

[Wilfrid]

I am sure Lizzo’s speech describing her women critics as bitches and ho’s was tremendously empowering, just as Anitta’s twerking helped young women to understand their own value.

[Wilfrid]

And just about every act being swarmed by women dancers in lingerie. Liberating. 

[small h]

Y'all are reinforcing my decision to stay the fuck out of there and just watch Only Murders.

[Wilfrid]

[taion]

I like Mark Fisher, but not enough to read K-punk. This piece in his memory made me think of this thread: https://areomagazine.com/2023/01/18/the-great-reboot-in-memoriam-mark-fisher/. Has "global techno-capitalism" been mentioned in this thread yet? There are quite a lot of pages here.

Fisher's hope for VR and the metaverse seems so quaint as to no longer even be charming.

[Wilfrid]

Thank you for this. I was aware of Fisher but hadn't read him (the 1200 page K-Punk anthology is inimidating*). But I am sympathetic to many of the views attributed to him in that article.

I almost bailed because nobody who knows Guattari's work first-hand would refer to him as Pierre-Felix rather than Felix. That reveals a use of Wikipedia.

*ETA: To my surprise, there's a copy in my library. Maybe I'll dip in.