So awhile ago, right before the wedding, I came out. I told the world (John Pierson) that I was endeavoring to eradicate pop music from my life. While acknowledging that this campaign may be semantically possible, I recognize that it's functionally impossible, due to the ubiquity of pop music. Therefore, I'm revising the campaign so that I may be allowed to listen to some pop, but only provisionally.
What brought me to this conclusion? iTunes. I still carry that culturally planted (and oft-assumed) meme that I should keep up with the Zeitgeist. I really tried to dry out this self-perpetuating idea that this is good music. Months of nothing but classical and jazz. More months still of no music whatsoever. But then I had a listen to M.I.A.'s new album Maya, which sucks musically, don't get me wrong; but I'm forced to admit that it's sonically awesome.
More to come later.
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