It feels like it's the first time in a looong time that an album is actually culturally relevant
reminder that "culturally relevant" means "me and my friends know about it"
>>122936115No it's not. I don't see it that way.
>>122936054I love this album, but to me it feels like a certain group of terminally online people who are really LOUD about it, and now that's just kind of spilling over into the mainstream
Happy to see Charli getting the attention she deserves
>>122936054Fantano wins again, our guy doesn't miss
>>122936054It's a forced meme which is unfortunate because the music is good>>122936115Trooncaser>>122936193The white house is terminally online>>122936221I bet he misses his marriage
ffs you better be shills because if you fucking faggots are real then this board is the most goddamn retarded bullshit ever. look at yourselves
>>122936054Please go outside
>>122936560the inspiration for this post came from an experience outside>>122936525Counterargument please >>122936193This is also part of the relevance but not the total.
>>122936601you didn’t make an argument to counter, only platitudes.
corporatjons and politicians use this album to pander to you niggas lmao
>>122936629Tell me why you don't agree with my statement
>>122936675Okay that's because they use this album as a tool, because it has some cultural relevance. For real, I think this is relevant. Taylor Swift was also relevant yes but she was relevant as a celebrity not because of the content of her albums. Also she's just a plain pop star, she never surprised anyone.
>>122936693cultural relevance is a platitude. it has lot its meaning. what culture? what constitutes relevance or a lack thereof. you don’t even have an answer to this, you’re just positing your feeling. it’s not an argument, you haven’t made an actual point here. there is no substance.
>>122936709lets be real in like 2 weeks the buzz around this album is gonna die out and people, politicians, and corporations are gonna get onto the next thing. which is unfortunate because the album is good
>>122936714Okay I actually agree with you, I must define what I mean by cultural relevance and by that I mean this album transcended its original audience, and reached both into critical circles and a considerably wide mass of people that, not only listens to this album individually, as any product (like any other album) but also discusses it and makes this album a cultural phenomenon (the memes, the discussion around its content) it's not only seen as another album, it's altering the general discourse around music and media. You will tell me that it is not such a broad phenomenon but I precisely think that this era is defined by a lack lack of unified taste or interest , and this album achieves it somehow, and it does by proposing something relatively different for what we are used to.
>>122936877In short, it's the first time in some time I see something "new" or "different" attract the attention of both a specialized and more general audience from relatively different backgrounds, and that it also has an impact on discourse outside of music.If you think differently show me some examples I'm genuinely interested.
>>122936877i appreciate the explanation and i don’t disagree with you. although i don’t think it’s anything really new, to the general population it is and so it got them into something they wouldn’t necessarily get into
Yes a media company has flexed its marketing budget to astroturf the shit out of this thing on social media
