#sorry to go all pretentious mode for a secobs

[pansyfemme]

Do you genuinely exclusively listen to pop? You really live like that?

1) no, i listen to a pretty wide variety of genres, i. just mainly post about pop because it’s my special interest and i know the most about it.

2) this is a really funny ask to send to the guy who’s taste in pop is like. experimental stuff made in some teenager’s basement in 1999 that can only be found on 300 view youtube cd rips. i am not the type of pop music listener you are thinking of. Pop music is a very, very wide genre. There are hundreds of subgenres. My specific interest is in twee pop. It’s not really known for having a super mainstream prescense, aside from maybe belle and sebastian. However, like i also don’t shit on mainstream pop (ok i do on what’s big rn, im really not a fan of a lot of current stuff) but my other interests lie in 60s bubblegum and power pop (which is largely based on the 60s pop sound, but can be found as the starting point of a lot of 90s pop bands) so i can’t say im entirely against non-obscurity, i just find it fun to dive into it. But i am kind of tired of pop music being treated like a less cool or ‘cheap’ genre because people don’t understand what it is. a lot of people pull out the ‘pop means popular’ argument but like.. not anymore, really. Words for genres change over time, which can be good or bad. “Lo-fi” was coined to mean music that was produced imperfectly, and is now more associated with studying music on youtube. “Emo” was coined for emotional hardcore, but got associated with a lot of pop punk until that meaning overtook it. Pop is more related to stylistic choices at this point, really. I think writing it off because you don't like what plays on the radio is kinda silly, because i don't listen to that either. If anything, i have much stranger music taste than the average person