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Anonymous wrote:It makes me cringe when adults listen to the same garbage pop music as their tween children. It doesn't make you youthful, it makes you an empty wannabee. They used to have something called Adult Contemporary music specifically for this reason, but that seems to have disappeared. There is so much gorgeous music out there and when I hear a 40 year old coworker listening to Lil Nas X I judge.

I judge people who think there’s an age limit for listening to particular music.

+2 there’s nothing worse than an out of touch middle age+ adult clinging desperately to the music and styles of their youth and dismissing everything else as trash. Sir Elton John always hypes up new artists and keeps himself current on music - Morrissey calls all newer music and artists garbage. Who would you rather be like?

I have zero interest in comic book/superhero movies. Ditto anything Star Wars outside of the original 3 movies.

Anonymous wrote:It makes me cringe when adults listen to the same garbage pop music as their tween children. It doesn't make you youthful, it makes you an empty wannabee. They used to have something called Adult Contemporary music specifically for this reason, but that seems to have disappeared. There is so much gorgeous music out there and when I hear a 40 year old coworker listening to Lil Nas X I judge.

I judge people who think there’s an age limit for listening to particular music.

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Anonymous wrote:I think Gilmore Girls is awful.

except for Emily and Paris.
- they are my favorites

+1 Emily was right about almost everything. That's the secret message of the show.

Rory was awful but that's not an unpopular opinion. Paris is a hero who deserved WAY better than what she got in AYITL.

Anonymous wrote:Wow, I agree with so many of these! Here are mine:

Taylor Swift's main talent is business -- she's a mediocre singer, a vastly overrated songwriter, a bad dancer, and has an annoying public persona. But she knows how to work her target demo and she understands PR. She's the Donald Trump of pop music.

The best films of the last 20 years are out of Asia, Europe and the Mideast. American filmmaking is broken (there are some gems but so much garbage too).

Television might be the best, most creative storytelling medium around at the moment. Far superior to film (as it currently stands) and due to problems with book publishing and literary mags, also beating literature as well at the moment. I think one reason for this is that making television places a lot of limitations on creators, and people underestimate the value and importance of limitations on creativity. Deadlines and length limits are actually good for creativity -- they force storytellers to make decisions and commit to them. They force creators to self-edit. And the serialized nature forces storytellers to focus on how to lure in the audience and hold their attention. Television has many flaws, but I think it offers more to storytellers than other mediums at the moment. Too bad many great storytellers reject it as beneath them!

Yup, I'm a cultural snob.

THIS. Not only does Taylor make great business choices, but she also manages to wrap her decisions in a cloak of "authenticity" so her fanbase still sees her as their BFF. Taylor selling portions of her journals with her CDs is her "opening up her life" and "being vulnerable," rather than motivating fans to buy 4+ copies of her album. Taylor doing listening parties for her albums is her "spending time with her friends" rather than incentivizing listeners to become the "stan"/fan army that do a lot of unpaid promotion and defend her image online. Taylor no longer interacting with fans on social media is "protecting her mental health" rather than just no longer doing that type of marketing.

The Donald Trump comparison is so apt. Taylor Swift really could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue, and her fans would still be streaming Folklore, listening for "Easter eggs" that hinted at the murder.

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Anonymous wrote:Tucker Carlson is easy on the eyes, even if much of what he says makes my ears burn.

Golden Goose sneakers are ugly and uncomfortable and I judge my friends for wearing them.

Same

Just eeeew

It makes me cringe when adults listen to the same garbage pop music as their tween children. It doesn't make you youthful, it makes you an empty wannabee. They used to have something called Adult Contemporary music specifically for this reason, but that seems to have disappeared. There is so much gorgeous music out there and when I hear a 40 year old coworker listening to Lil Nas X I judge.

Anonymous wrote:Dave Matthews is incredibly overrated.

The Big Bang Theory is not funny.

Chrissy Tiegan has always been unlikeable.

SNL has run its course.

I'm not sure that SNL has run its course, but I do think that the shift in its audience is having a negative effect. Once upon a time, you could only see SNL if you were awake and home watching TV at 11:30 on a Saturday night, which meant its audience was chiefly parents and younger teens who probably didn't get half the jokes. Now that the clips are available online to watch the next day and there's a desperation to stay relevant by going viral, the show can aim for the younger generation that is usually out on a Saturday night. I feel like the humor/style has gotten muddled as a result.

Wow, I agree with so many of these! Here are mine:

Taylor Swift's main talent is business -- she's a mediocre singer, a vastly overrated songwriter, a bad dancer, and has an annoying public persona. But she knows how to work her target demo and she understands PR. She's the Donald Trump of pop music.

The best films of the last 20 years are out of Asia, Europe and the Mideast. American filmmaking is broken (there are some gems but so much garbage too).

Television might be the best, most creative storytelling medium around at the moment. Far superior to film (as it currently stands) and due to problems with book publishing and literary mags, also beating literature as well at the moment. I think one reason for this is that making television places a lot of limitations on creators, and people underestimate the value and importance of limitations on creativity. Deadlines and length limits are actually good for creativity -- they force storytellers to make decisions and commit to them. They force creators to self-edit. And the serialized nature forces storytellers to focus on how to lure in the audience and hold their attention. Television has many flaws, but I think it offers more to storytellers than other mediums at the moment. Too bad many great storytellers reject it as beneath them!

Yup, I'm a cultural snob.

Anonymous wrote:Dave Matthews is incredibly overrated.

The Big Bang Theory is not funny.

Chrissy Tiegan has always been unlikeable.

SNL has run its course.

+1 to all of these and +1 to finding Schitt's Creek insufferable

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Anonymous wrote:Old Disney movies are cheesy and terrible… at best. I’ll take the likes of Moana and the like any day.

No! Give me old any day! The new woke stuff sucks!

The old stuff was racist and misogynistic and disgusting. Have you watched any of that shit recently? there have been several we had to turn off because they were so inappropriate for young children.

For example?? I don't get it. You are really stretching for content now.

Go watch Dumbo and Pinocchio and then come back here and tell us what you think.

Pass. No time for that.
if you have an actual point - just make it

I find Reese Witherspoon annoying. Same with Ryan Reynolds + Blake Lively (although that doesn’t seem to be as much of an unpopular opinion now).

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Anonymous wrote:Old Disney movies are cheesy and terrible… at best. I’ll take the likes of Moana and the like any day.

No! Give me old any day! The new woke stuff sucks!

The old stuff was racist and misogynistic and disgusting. Have you watched any of that shit recently? there have been several we had to turn off because they were so inappropriate for young children.

For example?? I don't get it. You are really stretching for content now.

Go watch Dumbo and Pinocchio and then come back here and tell us what you think.

Dave Matthews is incredibly overrated.

The Big Bang Theory is not funny.

Chrissy Tiegan has always been unlikeable.

SNL has run its course.

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Anonymous wrote:Old Disney movies are cheesy and terrible… at best. I’ll take the likes of Moana and the like any day.

No! Give me old any day! The new woke stuff sucks!

The old stuff was racist and misogynistic and disgusting. Have you watched any of that shit recently? there have been several we had to turn off because they were so inappropriate for young children.

For example?? I don't get it. You are really stretching for content now.

I’m not PP, but I do agree with PP generally. It certainly wasn’t all racist/misogynistic, but here are a couple of examples:

- The song in Peter Pan about “what makes the red man red.” Honestly, they need to just take that song out of the movie. It doesn’t add much to the plot and it’s SO offensive.

- Pocohantas. The fact that they made her look like a Barbie, when she was a young girl.

- The princesses whose life goals are marrying a prince they hardly know (Sleeping Beauty, Ariel, Snow White)

Now, that said, I don’t think that letting your kid watch those movies will forever damage them or something, but I am very glad that Disney has changed. In fact, at this point they explicitly disavow the whole “love at first sight” thing. They’ve incorporated that into Frozen and Encanto.