“Why won’t the superbowl let Kid Rock play with an appearance from the original karate kid? They were relevant once! This is the worst kind of discrimination, discrimination against ME!”
Democrats and the media should be screaming, “I just can’t understand their issue with an American playing at the Superbowl.” FFS, confront these morons.
Wait, that guy is “the biggest artist in the world”? I’ve never heard of him until this whole thing happened.
On the other hand, I very much live in a musical bubble where I basically only ever hear music that I myself put on, and even I had heard of Bad Bunny.
I may have not listened to the music of most modern artist, like, IDK, Sabrina Carpenter, Dua Lipa etc., but I’ve still heard of them. Not Bad Bunny though.
That moment when we realize we’re at the ppint where pop culture is passing us by rather than being targeted at us…
(Honestly, if it weren’t for some of the younglings on my soccer team I’d have only learned about Bad Bunny in the Economist, which is a pretty embarrassingly uncool way to learn about pop culture.)
Nah, that would be fine. Pop culture isn’t cool. Pop culture is (mostly) boring shit for the masses, because it is bland enough, that a majority of people don’t have an issue with it. You are fine if you only hear about it from your grown up magazine.
To each their own. I definitely used to just listen to my own punk shit and disdain pop but the older I get, the more I see value in something fun with a catchy beat that a lot of people can dance and sing to at once. The classic tunes I dig were also pop once before they became old people tunes.
It’s like anything, if all you listen to is pop, that’s probably not great but if you refuse to listen to any, you’re probably missing out.
Hey, I really don’t want to talk you down or be destructive or anything. My point is on the contrary:
You are not uncool, lame or whatever, if you don’t know contemporary pop culture. There are some fine songs, everybody likes. They become classics, as you say. Most pop shit is just a short-lived fad, nobody will remember in a few months. If you like that kind of music, it is also absolutely fine.
If you had told 12-year-old me that someday I would enjoy Ace of Base, I would have thought you were an idiot. Yet here we are.
No yeah I’m pretty sure that title is still pretty firmly Taylor swift.
I looked it up yesterday after seeing this headline and allegedly Bad Bunny is in fact number one. I had assumed it was Taylor Swift.
I mean, you could make a credible argument for either but I’m pretty sure Republicans would whine regardless (she was pretty outspoken about how voting trump was a bad idea leading to his comically petulant “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT” tweet.)
According to number of streams it’d be Taylor Swift or Bad Bunny, but Bunny has a much smaller catalogue and fewer active years. (And I think conservatives would be as annoyed if Taylor played as she was pretty outspoken about trump.)
But yeah, his music has been everywhere. Anecdotally, I think it’s been played at 3/3 weddings I was at this summer, which I thought was neat considering none of the couples speaks Spanish.
I’ve (sadly) heard about Taylor Swift, but never heard one of her song (maybe a few second extract), but this is the first time I hear about “Bad Bunny”
I mean, if you’re haven’t really listened to arguably the biggest artist in the world, are you really surprised you don’t know about the other big ones?
News media report (more like promote) about them, whether you listen to their stuff or not
I haven’t heard about “Bad Bunny” in my country, which apparently is worth being downvoted for
which apparently is worth being downvoted for
Yeah, that surprised me. My guess is that your comment came off a little “how can this be popular if I haven’t hesrd of it?” Which feels kinda boomery.
Don’t know what to tell you, he’s been on Canadian news a few times, subject of at least two Economist articles, BBC articles, Guardian articles etc. Maybe you missed the reports? I mean, if you don’t know the name of the guy announced to headline the Super Bowl (by definition, fairly goshdarn famous) it’s not like you’d be expected to be in touch with who is popular etc.
They’re almost mask-off at this point, admitting that the only business they care about is the business of licking boots.
100% mask off. There is no free market party - even the Libertarians made friends with Trump so he’d pardon a single white drug dealer.
If anybody reading this actually believes in markets anymore, then direct action is your only choice left.
Absolutely. Making fun of their hypocrisy almost feels like shooting fish in a gun-sized barrel at this point.
My socialism-hating uncle works at a “defense” company whose largest customer is…the United States. Isn’t that fuckin funny.
I work with people like that and call it “socialized monopoly defense”. I’m the only one laughing but screw those guys the joke is for me.
A bunch of retirees running around all day with nothing to do except get high on each others fumes, refusing to acknowledge the existince of any other demographic in society outside their decrepit and aged monoculture, is a very dangerous thing.
