a few thoughts about this whole nicki minaj fiasco

oldtobegin:

maura fucking johnston, ladies and gentlemen:

Are female fans who appreciate a pop hook here and there automatically considered lesser fans of music that defines itself as “real”? I am probably going to sound like a hippie here, but this sharp drawing of lines around fanbases does nobody any good at all; like what you like and don’t like what you don’t, but assigning motivations (that are pretty moralistic!) to the way peoples’ pleasure centers react to things is one of my least favorite aspects of music culture right now, some sort of OKCupid/Facebook I-like-this-thing matrix turned into a strangulation-torture device that only serves to inflame comment sections and, as you know if you clicked “play” on the above audio, make people yell at each other on the radio for an hour. (And what of the dudes who like “Starships”? Are they forced to relegate their real pleasure to the festering bin of “guilty pleasures”?)

Source: maura

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  1. kaoztheory reblogged this from villagevoice
  2. wiitns reblogged this from maura and added:
    Haha, I knew I was right! Fuck Rosenberg
  3. nurtenemirr said: Yes. :/
  4. facelessinblack reblogged this from maura and added:
    i’m going to read this because hip hop now sucks and nicki minaj is one of the many reasons. so nicki minaj bowed out...
  5. sprezzatur-ish reblogged this from maura and added:
    Killer work by Maura. I had a similar reaction; it also made me think about the ongoing beef in hip-hop about “soft”...
  6. tomewing reblogged this from maura and added:
    (reblogged as is my duty as a Dude Who Loves “Starships”)
  7. bmichael reblogged this from maura and added:
    There are lots of interesting sorts of things going on with this imbroglio (which, not ‘being on the net’ for a week I...
  8. osmium said: I’m so rockist I have no real idea who Nicki Minaj is. ::press play on 2112::
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