The things you find out from Fametracker
May. 23rd, 2004 02:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
omorkaShould I be embarrassed that I follow what is, at its base, a celebrity fansite? Even if it seethes with snark and irony, embraces the HoYay (if not the slash), is acutely aware of the political and social implications of fame and celebrity, bashes Scientology at every opportunity, and has discussion threads like "Unpopular Musical Opinions You Hold"?
Okay, I'm embarrassed. But not too much.
At any rate, I meandered off their New Wave thread (entitled "The Politics of Dancing") and discovered something: there is a historical antecedent for my distate for punk, my complicated semi-adversarial relationship to goth, and my ambivalence for the neopunk subgenre of the alternative movement. To make matters worse, it also seems to encompass my dress style (such as it is).
I'm apparently a New Romantic (minus the fanatical clubgoer aspect and the really weird hair). Oh, I knew they existed, but previously I'd only heard the label applied to Duran Duran, for whom I have little appreciation. Allison McMurtree would be proud.
There's a box for me, and I didn't even know it.
Okay, I'm embarrassed. But not too much.
At any rate, I meandered off their New Wave thread (entitled "The Politics of Dancing") and discovered something: there is a historical antecedent for my distate for punk, my complicated semi-adversarial relationship to goth, and my ambivalence for the neopunk subgenre of the alternative movement. To make matters worse, it also seems to encompass my dress style (such as it is).
I'm apparently a New Romantic (minus the fanatical clubgoer aspect and the really weird hair). Oh, I knew they existed, but previously I'd only heard the label applied to Duran Duran, for whom I have little appreciation. Allison McMurtree would be proud.
There's a box for me, and I didn't even know it.
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Re: Punk as anti-intellectual?
Date: 2004-05-24 07:55 pm (UTC)I've read a number of critics who claim that as soon as the Clash went all thoughtful on them, punk was officially dead.
I prefer subversion of the dominant paradigm over rejecting it/fighting it in the open. Hiding in plain sight tonight . . . planting seeds in gravel . . . that sort of thing. If the kids leave my room more willing to think, then I've done my job; if they leave more willing to yell at the cops, I haven't so much. If someone else is making a lot of noise and distracting the Man while I reach out from the inside, all well and good, but I'm afraid I think only the master's tools will dismantle the master's house.
(Extra points to anyone who recognizes what happened in that last paragraph.)