<< I have seen many examples of people who like them simply because they are
popular. I have heard people around me say "I used to like them, but they
are so unpopular now,"... There are, unfortunately, many people who like
what is popular and are afraid to like anything that might brand them as
"uncool." Sadly, the masses are alive and thriving. >>
In reference to music perhaps. But.. we have to remember.. *everyone's* life
doesn't revolve around music. We on the list are probably music
fanatics/musicians or some combination thereof, while many people just like
listening to something that sounds good when they're doing other stuff. This
is not to say that music doesn't connect with them at all, because obviously
it does, but it's just not this overweening entity in the lives of everyone.
So maybe they constitute masses concerning music or fashion or whatever, but
they're individuals in their own right and listening to less-mainstream music
doesn't make us any less "mass-y".
That said, let's put it in a different context. Maybe we know of and like
Stephen King, but we might not all know Jean Luc Godard like a *true* film
buff would. OR... a lot of you know who Beethoven is, I bet, but how many of
you like Archangelo Gatti? In some respect, anyone can be masses. The people
you're talking about like mass-popular pop music. So what. Big deal? Not
really. Though I do wish they would stop moshing like teen spirit at Sunny
Day shows!!!
That said, it IS sad that people will stop liking something just because
everyone else did. I don't know who you're talking to/hanging out with
though, because I've never encountered anyone who did that intentionally.
And uhh this is the same susan but on a different account because the masses
stole the password to my other one.
Are any of you kids on the list named Sheree and you live in Everett, WA? I
have met this girl at like 2 SDRE shows and a Jeremy show but I can't
remember her email address, dammit.
xoSusan
