{"id":39093,"date":"2023-08-13T10:53:52","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T15:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=39093"},"modified":"2023-08-13T10:53:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T15:53:52","slug":"losing-touch-with-societal-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/08\/13\/losing-touch-with-societal-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Losing Touch With Societal Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/freddiedeboer.substack.com\/p\/i-keep-writing-the-same-poptimism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remark<\/a> by Freddie deBoer left me completely at sea:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Poor Jill Sobule catches a stray here, but she has to &#8211; because she wasn\u2019t ever as purely poppy an artist as Katy Perry, she is the pig who must be casually, offhandedly slaughtered in the commission of proving that dad\/music critic Tom Breihan is down with the youth and, you know, feminism or whatever. This stuff wallpapers the internet. Nobody wants to appear to be a \u201crockist,\u201d a category that literally no one self-identifies with and a term that describes a theoretical figure who could not possibly be more culturally marginal. (The only accusatory identifier that\u2019s thrown around more casually than rockist is fascist, and I think there are some fringe dweebs who actually embrace the latter mantle.) White-haired hifi guys you meet at Record Store Day are careful not to appear to be rockists, now. Poptimists, I promise, the day is yours. Stereogum is a poptimist publication. So is Pitchfork, and so is The Fader, and so are rockist temples like Rolling Stone and Spin, and so is everywhere else. I will countenance any and all arguments against what I\u2019m saying here, but for this: poptimism has hegemonic control of music criticism. There are no challengers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, I don&#8217;t even know if this is the Med or the Aral in which I&#8217;m lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This remark by Freddie deBoer left me completely at sea: Poor Jill Sobule catches a stray here, but she has to &#8211; because she wasn\u2019t ever as purely poppy an artist as Katy Perry, she is the pig who must be casually, offhandedly slaughtered in the commission of proving that \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/08\/13\/losing-touch-with-societal-reality\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39094,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39093\/revisions\/39094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}