This isn't to say that all straight men are dismissive of pop music and of course there are women and queer people who are also dismissive of this genre of music, but it kinda feels like there's this attitude by a lot of straight men of being somewhere between dismissive to hateful of pop music, especially pop music by or for women, and even female RnB, and there's this tendency by women and queer people to be more embracing of this kind of music.
To be fair, there's less of a dismissal in pop music in today's atmosphere compared to back then (especially in the past, if you were a boy and you liked *insert pop song by female pop artist*, you were mocked as "Gay" in a negative manner and were made fun of whereas now, it's more comments of "I'm not a fan of that kind of music"). With that being said, it's common to see remarks like "pop music is garbage" and other forms of mockery towards this kind of music on the internet and on this forum.
Besides being a Michael Jackson or other artists that is liked by everyone and transcends the pop boundaries, I feel like there's a pattern in the type of pop song that straight men do like. It's usually:
Pop music, especially those that charted on the Billboard Hot 100 as you know gets tons of criticisms especially on the internet with regards to its lack of legitimacy, its repetitiveness and inanity, it being overproduced, it sounding like absolutely no effort is made and its manufactured nature, it all sounding the same etc. Despite these kinds of talking points, there are tons fans or as they call it, "stans" of pop music and pop artists and a lot of these stans usually have awareness of the processes and the people involved in making the so called "bops" by their so called "faves". And I might be wrong but a lot of the places where these stans gather on the internet seem to be less "straight men" and more "queer" and "women".
So why is it that despite the tons of criticisms of the quality of pop music, women and queer people seem to be more accepting of it? Why does it seem like straight men are more active in labeling pop songs as garbage?
(PS: There's this Teens react video I saw where one of the male teens was like "these female singers all sound the same" in an unflattering manner and this may or may not have inspired me to make this thread)
To be fair, there's less of a dismissal in pop music in today's atmosphere compared to back then (especially in the past, if you were a boy and you liked *insert pop song by female pop artist*, you were mocked as "Gay" in a negative manner and were made fun of whereas now, it's more comments of "I'm not a fan of that kind of music"). With that being said, it's common to see remarks like "pop music is garbage" and other forms of mockery towards this kind of music on the internet and on this forum.
Besides being a Michael Jackson or other artists that is liked by everyone and transcends the pop boundaries, I feel like there's a pattern in the type of pop song that straight men do like. It's usually:
- Made by this obscure or indie act
- A guilty pleasure (sometimes, with a touch of "all her other songs are bad and this is the only good one")
- Song liked for ironic or memetic purposes
- Not really common, but a non-pop cover version of a pop song.
Pop music, especially those that charted on the Billboard Hot 100 as you know gets tons of criticisms especially on the internet with regards to its lack of legitimacy, its repetitiveness and inanity, it being overproduced, it sounding like absolutely no effort is made and its manufactured nature, it all sounding the same etc. Despite these kinds of talking points, there are tons fans or as they call it, "stans" of pop music and pop artists and a lot of these stans usually have awareness of the processes and the people involved in making the so called "bops" by their so called "faves". And I might be wrong but a lot of the places where these stans gather on the internet seem to be less "straight men" and more "queer" and "women".
So why is it that despite the tons of criticisms of the quality of pop music, women and queer people seem to be more accepting of it? Why does it seem like straight men are more active in labeling pop songs as garbage?
(PS: There's this Teens react video I saw where one of the male teens was like "these female singers all sound the same" in an unflattering manner and this may or may not have inspired me to make this thread)
