[Allabaster]

Perhaps a purism that disputes your right to adopt a label is less offensive than one that disputes your right to make music of your choosing. But then an artist seldom chooses their own labels, so where's the beef?

[cestuneblague]

You know I always thought Satie was somebody's puppet account, but his meta-am-i-sarcastic-or-am-ironically-anti-sarcastic schtick basically felt like a see-through mask that actually revelead far more about the member underneath than I think was intended.


I donno, to be quite honest I see both Purism vs Tokenism in music often (though not all the time) as a form of insecurity, and for some reason I find tokenism more forgiving. I think if perhaps sometimes one may personally overrate a certain "token" favorite from a particular genre to make their overall taste seem a bit more expansive, I think that's not really hurting anything and if it actually leads them to look into a particular style of music they hitherto haven't heard that much than I think it actually accomplishes something worthwhile. Now Purism I just find kind of irksome, mainly cuz it both kills discussion and in many ways the creative genius and is often perpretated by those who claim to want to accomplish the exact opposite. BUt also cause it can breed that kind of Superiority Complex, the sort of know-it-all Expert On All Things who deems not only what music is worthy to be considered worthwhile towards a particular realm of music but also what personal music tastes are "good" or "bad", "authentic" or "brainwashed by the Pitchfork masses"- despite the fact that both music taste and what makes a particular work of art worthwhile is a completely abstract, subjective concept. When I see people picking on people's taste or decided whether a work is authentic or not, I just find that a form of bullying that's masking a certain insecurity about how they evaulate their own taste and the fruitless quest to find what is truly the "best" music out there (when it should be just about discussing and savoring what our personal favorites are). I donno this kind of goes beyond simple tokenism v purism so whatever 7.5 generally favorable reviews.

[cestuneblague]