I shall now bless ILxor by creating an unholy merger of two "geek obsessions": "Purity Tests" and "Music 'Posuerdom'"; My Question is this:
If someone were to create a "purity test" to test for "Pop Thug" contamination, what questions would be in it?
Details are below, courtesy of Nate Patrin (who will hopefully forgive the act of blatant plagarism I'm about to commit.
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POP THUG:
True Pop Thug (Brittnias Airheadicus Discophonica and the nearly identical South American variant Aguilaricus Airheadicus Discophonica)
The Yin to the Indie Thug's Yang; the Ford to its Chevy; the Dusty Rhodes to its Ric Flair: for all the Indie Thug's obsessions over bucking trends and being "real," the Pop Thug is more concerned with matters concerning the #1 Billboard Hot 100 smash hit and how it affects our day-to-day lives. Pop Thugs live for what they call the "zeitgeist," the here-and-now mass ritual of collective consumption and shared experience that drives the international multi-billion-dollar superstar platinum juggernaut hit machine of total domination. Which is fine and all until they get all snarky. You see, the Pop Thug is burdened with the unenviable task of sticking up for boy bands and jiggy-rap and Britney Spears, which is sure to make anyone surly; Gandhi would probably want to start busting heads after having to constantly attempt to justify why some group with a teen-girl demographic is relevant and exciting and great to listen to. Of course, most Pop Thugs are incapable of physical violence, so they usually retort to getting their bitch on, writing snotty asides in their music columns that take aim at usually faceless generalized targets -- usually coded euphemistic pejoratives for Indie Kids. The trump card of the Pop Thug's smirky, smug self-assured cutesiness is claiming that the teenybopper act they are lavishing heaps upon heaps of praise on is "better than Radiohead." The scary thing about the Pop Thug is that they realize the pleasures of most of the bands they champion have the high likelihood of being fleeting and "disposable" ("That's the great thing about it!", they will sometimes claim), so nearly any argument you may have against their musical tastes is easily refuted with a "Well, that's what I've been saying all along!" before they mock you for liking Guided By Voices.
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― Lord Luther Anarchiel Custos IX, Esq (Lord Custos Alpha), Sunday, 18 August 2002 01:55 (twenty-three years ago)
New "bought the picture disk to hang on the wall but has never played it" answers, please.
― Lord Luther Anarchiel Custos IX, Esq (Lord Custos Alpha), Sunday, 18 August 2002 02:03 (twenty-three years ago)
concerning the #1 Billboard Hot 100 smash hit A decent Pop Thug can only accept MTV charts and the Radio 1 Top 40. Everything else is pretty much disposable
― Chupa-Cabras (vicc13), Sunday, 18 August 2002 02:18 (twenty-three years ago)
The scary thing about the Pop Thug is that they realize the pleasures of most of the bands they champion have the high likelihood of being fleeting and "disposable" ("That's the great thing about it!", they will sometimes claim)Pop music is no less disposable than any other genre of music. Far from being 'throwaway', great pop lasts a lifetime.
― DavidM (DavidM), Sunday, 18 August 2002 18:03 (twenty-three years ago)
"A decent Pop Thug can only accept MTV charts..."
I thought MTV determined everything by soundscan, just like everybody else?
― GCannon, Monday, 19 August 2002 12:28 (twenty-three years ago)
Do you mean they dont take the votes thru phone and internet like they do here? ridiculous
― Chupa-Cabras (vicc13), Monday, 19 August 2002 15:15 (twenty-three years ago)
well, truth be told I have no idea. But I remember a bit in RS a few years ago about how their playlists were determined in the same way as any other radio station's. Anybody know the skinny?
― GCannon, Monday, 19 August 2002 15:34 (twenty-three years ago)