#but imo it is a world of difference to criticize mainstream pop culture vs suggesting that There Is No Subculture | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

rivetgoth · 8 months ago

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Any time I see someone be like All music is bad now it’s all about tiktok trends spotify radio billboard charts pitchfork RYM it’s all soulless and homogeneous and tame subculture is dead genre is dead I’m just like . This is quite literally a skill issue. You’re just admitting that you don’t know how or are not trying to find anything more obscure than the stuff that’s trending or being algorithmically handed to you. You understand that right. Like there is music out there beyond what 17 y/os on tiktok are recording themselves dancing to in cosplay or what youtube reviewers are making videos about. Subculture exists in the real world in underground more-often-than-not predominantly marginalized communities that are thriving outside of the realm of what’s trending on social media or what’s being sold by fast fashion retail stores. Oftentimes because the hot spots of genuinely boundary pushing underground subculture are literally illegal. You not knowing it exists doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. You know this. right.

#& like as always that’s not to say you can’t or shouldn’t criticize mainstream popular culture like. of course.#but imo it is a world of difference to criticize mainstream pop culture vs suggesting that There Is No Subculture #and very much imply if not state outright that all there is now is whatever is being spoonfed to you via algorithm lol…#like ‘this thing is bad’ and ‘this thing is all that exists’ are just. not the same criticism. shouldn’t even need to be said.

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