Do you have a hard time relating to someone elses preferences?

Do you find it hard to relate to someone who prefers new Prince over classic 80's Prince?

Do you find it hard to relate to someone who insists the movie version of "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" is superior to the television show?

Is it ever possible to take anyone who likes Hillary Duff's singing seriously?

If so then you might be a pop culture snob. I've come across the situations listed above and though I'm mature enough not to get up on my high horse based on something as slight as a preference, initially they did make me pause. But I must say I had a very hard time taking the new show "Love Monkey" seriously becuase I just came to the realization that I didn't feel the creators really cared much for music at all, otherwise why openly diss both Tori Amos AND Hanson in their pilot? Sure for someone who doesn't like either artist it's easy to forgive, but given the way things were going it was only a matter of time these people would get to someone you loved as junk. To top it all off the show was openly promoting an artist who's name I think is Teddy Geiger, who to me is if not Hanson with a deeper voice, then at least second generation John Mayer. So if that is the litmus test for what's cool then these people needed to desperately get out of their box.

So was "Love Monkey" the music snobs or me?
[Edited 5/23/06 12:09pm]

CynicKill said:

Anyone who thinks the movie was better than the TV series is

What cracks me up now, is listening to friends of mine try to act like hipsters, pretending like they grew up listening to Joy Division and Sonic Youth and such, when in reality, they only owned like 3 albums at the time, the Top Gun Soundtrack, Bobby Brown; Dance, Ya Know It, and Paula Abdul: Forever Your Girl.

sextonseven said:

Believe it or not there were TWO occasions where people insisted that the movie was so much better then the tv series and the reason they couldn't get into the series was because it was inferior to the movie version. I stopped talking at that moment.

Tom said:

i was raised a pop culture snob. i feel dirty when i come across some kind of mass marketed bubblegum pap that i like. it's like porn, though not in a shameful way. it's just DIRTY.

I am totally.

Movies and TV - yes.

Music - I'm a little more open-minded about. If it's good, I'll listen to it even if a billion other people like it. And 'American Idol' does not fit into this category. That's a TV show. There is nothing musical about that crap at all.

There is definitely a pop egalitarianism - I've met plenty of people who are better, more informed consumers of pop culture than I.

I remember being at a party where a group of people were going on about the DVD release of Eyes Wide Shut. I think it was the director's cut, something I was not too interested in since I wasted my money on seeing it in the theatre. Oh, but I would never know the joy of seeing it in it's true intended body! Movie theatre, so pedestrian! I was made to feel very uninformed.

This same group was invited to a party in my humble home, around Halloween (my lady's birthday). I mean, it was only getting started, not many people there, and I put on Japanese Whispers...the fuss it created! I was read the riot act for my inappropriate attempts at holiday fest, and forced to put on the contemporary (at the time) Daft Punk album.

OK, I've vented.

The snob of pop culture is the biggest victim of it.
That goes for any kind of snob.

CynicKill said:

Of course. I don't see how anyone can stand listening to the radio. Then again, others look at my collection or hear what I'm rockin' and blank stares overcome them.



Kindasorta, but diff'rent strokes, etc. etc.

BTW, by using the term "classic 80's Prince" you betray your own preference. Snob.





Didn't dig either one.



In a world where carpenters are resurrected, anything is possible.




Love Monkey seemed like the kind of show that really was patronizing to so-called hipsters (a/k/a conformists in denial) and non-hipsters alike. If you're going to try to relate to your audience without knowing your audience then you are in real trouble.

Tom said:

Someone at work just switched my David Bowie cd with DMX.

CynicKill said:

Regarding any form of art, if someone disagrees with me, I don't really care. Art isn't math; there is no right or wrong answer.

Except when it comes to Buffy.

Anyone who thinks the movie is better than the TV series is WRONG! And they are RETARDED for being wrong.

'Nuff said.

CynicKill said:

No.



No. I don't fam like that.



No.



Depends on how cute they are.



I guess I'm not a PCS, based on these qualifications. But, I have been called one before.

namepeace said:

Yeah it was pretty obvious I was betraying my own preferences with every question I asked.

It's Taylor time...I mean, it's 8:07 EST. Do you know where your East Coast org Pop Culture Snobs are? ...or did they mysteriously clear out?

CinisterCee said:

anon said:

What's "Taylor time"?

Anx said:

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Tom said:

I own both of those, in addition to Sonic Youth and Joy Division albums.

Pop Culture... what? Snob? Pop? Where? Snob... culture? Pop?

sextonseven said:

Spoken like a true elitist.

anon said:

That doesn't help me any.

CynicKill said:

I feel snobish to the people who only like 80's Prince and don't understand The Rainbow Children

sextonseven said:

wuz rong wit bean retawdid???

sextonseven said:

Just another way to say A.I. is on.

Either you're really good or you're the real deal elitist snob.

anon said:

I have never watched that show. Unfortunately, it gets so much press in the papers and on local news that I do know the finals are between a grey-haired guy and some brunette woman. I'm assuming one of them is Taylor.

spelling edit
[Edited 5/24/06 15:52pm]

Most definitely.

When I was younger I gave a shit, now I see that it all goes in the category of "Things that have Zero Importance"