TT 212: Pitchfork digression
Just quickly highlighting this Substack entry by Freddie deBoer:
This all takes place at a frequency that I can’t hear — I have always found much rock music criticism a bit silly and overwrought, and then of course there’s the music itself — but I suspect deBoer is right.
Alex Ross introduced me to the idea of “poptimism” a few years ago and I found it compelling. As deBoer notes, that concept — where corporate things that are popular are defended by the masses because they popular — flows smoothly into Marvel movies and everything else. This is part of the way we live now.
deBoer’s piece is less about poptimism than those that respond to poptimism in a heavily stylized manner. The headline explains further: “The death of things as themselves.” Good piece, FdB is always worth reading…