Today's pop culture...

[Fishbone]

On the Ghetto Boyz thing, its actually Geto Boys.
Black Eyed Peas were borderline classic, now they're crap.
On the Pee Wee thing, anybody else find that totally inappropriate for Adult Swim?

 

[Ranger REG]

I mean, who else here listened to Def Leppard...

I do. It doesn't have to be high-class works of art that some of you and your elitists aspire to.

"Low-denominator music"??? Really, you do not have to lower your standards down to our "low-denominator" level. Not like we can offer you pate and caviar at our regular gaming sessions.

 

[Gunslinger]

This is the same as it has been in the past. The lowest common denominator hasn't changed. You've just decided (unconsciously, through years of habit and socializing) that you are better than most people, so you spurn what they like so that you don't have to feel like you're also part of the "lowest common denominator."

I don't really think that's the case though. I've tried to watch shows like American Idol and Real World, and I simply didn't enjoy them. Would you disagree with me that a show like Battlestar Galactica (the new one) is not objectively better than a tv show like MTV Cribs or TRL? Or that modern club rappers could ever touch the lyrical genius and poetic flows of lyricists like Nas, Tupac, and Big Pun?

As for it being the same as in the past, I'm not really in a position to argue whether it's any different today than it's been previously because I'm only 20 (as I mentioned earlier). I will admit that I listed to trash through junior high and most of high school, but everyone needs to start somewhere and I used artists like Limp Bizkit and the Hot Boyz as a starting point to begin refining my taste (though I wasn't consciously doing so back then). Everyone has to start somewhere and I hold no grudges against newcomers who seek an initiation through pop culture. But I think that there has to be some point when you distance yourself from that at least to a certain extent, because no matter what your interests are there will always be better things out there than pop culture can provide. There's nothing wrong with continuing to enjoy facets of pop culture, but I don't think it's acceptable to still enjoy only pop culture after a certain amount of time.

 

[Thunderfoot]

I don't really think that's the case though. I've tried to watch shows like American Idol and Real World, and I simply didn't enjoy them. Would you disagree with me that a show like Battlestar Galactica (the new one) is not objectively better than a tv show like MTV Cribs or TRL?

Are you kidding, the ORIGINAL Battlestar Galactica is better than these shows

Or that modern club rappers could ever touch the lyrical genius and poetic flows of lyricists like Nas, Tupac, and Big Pun?

Uhhh, hate to burst your bubble junior, these are modern rappers... You want talent, let's talk Fast Five Freddy, Run DMC , the Sugarhill Gang, Kurtis Blow and Melly"Grandmaster Flash" Mel; that's talent!

 

[jaerdaph]

You want talent, let's talk Fast Five Freddy, Run DMC , the Sugarhill Gang, Kurtis Blow and Melly"Grandmaster Flash" Mel; that's talent!

Word.

 

[Fishbone]

Eh, there are so many modern talented rappers its crazy. Thats the one genre of popular music I think that has taken a huge step forward. Granted the stuff that is popular now doesn't hold a candle to the stuff that was reigning the 80s and early 90s.

 

[Chimera]

I still have to laugh at what I call "The Chicken Boys", though.

That's like a mohawk, but the sides aren't necessarily shaved and the center ridge looks a lot more like a rooster's comb.

See them all the time. Looks silly.


OTOH, I recall walking into a Target about four years ago and the young man at the register had the bright green kool-aid hair. The older woman ahead of me gave him a head shake and a dirty look. I thought it really worked for the kid. Looked good. I made sure to complement him on it.

What once was shocking becomes commonplace.

But multiple large tattoos still make people look like trash, in my opinion.