I tend to stay clear in general of popular things cause I know how stupid the genearl populace is nowadays when it comes to anything good being released. Jonas Brothers saying they're better than Metallica? I hated them before they said that but that just put the nail in their coffin, are they fucking serious? Granted, I don't even like Metallica that much but how are you going to tell me that some pop(masquerading as rock)group is better than basically one of the pioneers of heavy metal as we know it?
It's that stupidity alone that puts me off popular stuff, cause it'll be watered and dumbed down for the masses, and in the above case the artists just get too goddamned big for their boots and think they're the shit, that makes me angry. It's more to do with the fact that nothing good comes out anymore, everything is just a rehash of something before it, where's the creativity and individuality? Lost, that's what it is.
Mercanary57 said:
Anyway, I'm getting a bit off track here. Basically, my point is I tend to like it, until the stupidity of the masses affects it.
I hear ya on that, some say it's elitism but it's not really, it's cause the random person who knows nothing about it comes and fucks the whole thing up, I completely understand now why skateboarders get so annoyed with the younger kids who do it. I mself have this too now with Parkour in my area, only me and my mate train seriously, I'm talking every other day(once we trained everyday for the week, couldn't move afterwards)and there are about 15-20 other tracuers/freerunners who "train"(and when I say train I mean loiter about places giving us a bad name, littering and getting us moved on from spots)and get in our way, they piss about and do nothing, maybe a few vaults here and there and fuck off to ruin another spot. It's not good for the image in our town, it's bad enough as it is without them making it worse, luckily people know us around the town, shopkeepers, security guards etc, they know we don't cause trouble but when they're with us we all get moved on, which is fair enough, but these other people don't have to be dicks and ruin it for everyone else.
Mercanary said it in less words than I did but it's true, when you like something that no one else has heard of and then everyone gets their hands on it they taint it, cause then it's not as good cause you have those people tell you different things, they make a mess of what it was that was great before they got their hands on it, then they have the nerve to turn around and call us "elitist" when we were there before everyone else liking it, knowing everything there is to know about it before them and they call you elitist.
The media warps everything it touches and ruins things for people who have known about hidden gems of entertainment for ages, then the media gets their hands on it and now everyone knows about it, and ruins it even further. So I'm not hating on popular things but, not all of them are bad, but the things that the people do to them are bad. People are stupid.