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enamouredLord have mercy, I hate it when people get pretensions about pop culture. Or, at the least, pop culturey things that are just silly and easily enjoyable.
Look, I understand that it's important to have cred. No matter how old you get, it seems like there is some arbitrary definer of what is and is not acceptable for you as a person to like. Some people who I encounter online (okay, "encounter" isn't exactly the best term, but you get what I mean, right?) are of the type who aspire to be more indie than thou--they only listen to bands who haven't hit the mainstream, watch the cultiest of cult movies, and so on. And if they like something remotely mainstream, they feel the need to justify their like of it by going all into the symbolism and whining about how the source is "deep" and how it's become omg-so-ruined over, geez, a day or something.
To that, I say: if you like something, you like it. The only thing that is a guilty pleasure is something that you feel an overwhelming sense of massive shame for being psycho-fan crazy over it once upon a time. I am totally not ashamed to still occasionally listen to the pop music I adored when I was in middle school, but I am embarrassed when I think about the bad fan fiction I wrote about various pop stars, you know? Embrace your love of it, stop trying to place some sort of stupid psychoanalytical spin on it so that the people who you think will turn up their nose at you for liking it will somehow think it's more acceptable.
This is pretty much because more and more, I realize I'm the least serious person in the world. Why can't life be fun? There is entirely too much about life and fiction and everything that is utterly ridiculous and fun and goofy for you to try to make sense of it all. It's better to sometimes just let everything go and enjoy it.
Look, I understand that it's important to have cred. No matter how old you get, it seems like there is some arbitrary definer of what is and is not acceptable for you as a person to like. Some people who I encounter online (okay, "encounter" isn't exactly the best term, but you get what I mean, right?) are of the type who aspire to be more indie than thou--they only listen to bands who haven't hit the mainstream, watch the cultiest of cult movies, and so on. And if they like something remotely mainstream, they feel the need to justify their like of it by going all into the symbolism and whining about how the source is "deep" and how it's become omg-so-ruined over, geez, a day or something.
To that, I say: if you like something, you like it. The only thing that is a guilty pleasure is something that you feel an overwhelming sense of massive shame for being psycho-fan crazy over it once upon a time. I am totally not ashamed to still occasionally listen to the pop music I adored when I was in middle school, but I am embarrassed when I think about the bad fan fiction I wrote about various pop stars, you know? Embrace your love of it, stop trying to place some sort of stupid psychoanalytical spin on it so that the people who you think will turn up their nose at you for liking it will somehow think it's more acceptable.
This is pretty much because more and more, I realize I'm the least serious person in the world. Why can't life be fun? There is entirely too much about life and fiction and everything that is utterly ridiculous and fun and goofy for you to try to make sense of it all. It's better to sometimes just let everything go and enjoy it.
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Date: 2009-12-24 06:26 am (UTC)