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A Few Indisputable Points About Poptimism and Then I Give Up
everybody's afraid to disagree with you, so, you know, cool
This is, I’m told, “ pop girl summer,” and it is genuinely difficult to find new music that gets any burn that isn’t some 18 to 28 year old photogenic woman, autotuning over shlocky overproduced midtempo backing tracks complete with beats stolen from mid-2010s EDM and muddy indistinct synth lines that all sound exactly the same. Two weeks ago, in The New York Times Book Review, Sarah Vowell approvingly recalled Nirvana's rise: “a group with loud guitars and louder drums knocking the whimpering Mariah Carey off the top of the charts.” Why did the changing of the guard sound so much like a sexual assault? There is essentially no extant criticism of the music industry that aligns with the “rockist” antipathy to inauthenticity and the denial of creative control, and former Abercrombie & Fitch model Lana del Rey cosplays as a working class waitress not to backlash but to virality and cheers.
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