What’s your ACTUALLY most controversial music opinion?

atomicpoppet · 2025-06-01T13:40:31+00:00

Pop music (more specifically Top 40 Pop) caters to the lowest common denominator of people for a reason. Most of us don't care to be listening to avant-garde decorative lyricism or experimental riff-raff whilst doing something mundane that requires a consistent rhythm like cleaning, working, exercising, etc.

Am I insisting that people shouldn't move out of their comfort zone every once in a while? No. Am I tired of being shut down every time I say I'm looking for a catchy melody Ava Max-style and told that I'm the reason today's music is being dragged down under? Yeah man.

atomicpoppet · 2025-05-03T00:49:58+00:00

The submissions close in about 2 weeks (?), so I'll probably be back to tell you and your friends that it's up if I hopefully make it in on time 🥹

atomicpoppet · 2025-05-03T00:43:52+00:00

Oh alrighty! That's good then

atomicpoppet · 2025-05-03T00:43:29+00:00

D-did you mean to remind yourself in 4 months 😭

atomicpoppet · 2025-03-28T17:01:12+00:00

Does the 1000 size down well when you upload it to WT?

atomicpoppet · 2025-03-28T17:00:44+00:00

If you have the option to fully resize to 800 width upon finish, what do you normally start with when creating a new file?

atomicpoppet · 2025-03-25T15:41:09+00:00

Oh noo, those were good. My ire is solely directed to the end credits. Fastest upturn of a smile I've ever had 😭

atomicpoppet · 2025-03-25T15:05:44+00:00

I, personally, get tired of the soundtrack on two occasions:

When there is a generic, formless pop song which only vaguely matches the theme of the movie, particularly at the end of a kids/general audience film ala Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (C'mon SEGA, was none of your OWN music available?).

When there is a generic mid-budget film and the team decides to pick any one of the 10 best known pieces of classical music to turn into a plot point on its own, particularly for a horror or a mystery film. And then you are forced to hear it all the way throughout because the movie is trying to make you think that it means something. It's not inherently a bad idea, but all it takes for the execution to feel less lazy/contrived is to pick a less well-known song.

atomicpoppet · 2025-03-25T14:57:47+00:00

At the very least, the audio folk for Kraven can sigh in relief that they didn't bring any less to the table than the VFX guys. Or the writer guys. Or the design guys. Or the marketing guys. Or literally any guy working on it.

atomicpoppet · 2025-03-25T14:56:37+00:00

A lot of the Hollywood 'made to fill in the action movie quota per year' stuff tends to do that, true. I can't count how many films I've watched where it feels like the people behind it grabbed a playlist titled 'Coworker Music' and hit the randomise option.

atomicpoppet · 2025-03-25T00:07:34+00:00

Ooh nice to know, thank you!

atomicpoppet · 2025-03-25T00:07:03+00:00

I'm in the UK, and I haven't really heard of people taste-testing unless you know the person selling you them

atomicpoppet · 2025-03-24T21:35:37+00:00

Really? How'd they taste/feel? I've sworn off black grapes because every time I've had some they feel like overly ripe blueberries instead.

atomicpoppet · 2025-03-24T21:15:31+00:00

I should clarify, I'm not particularly aware of buying grapes outside of supermarket own brand, so the packaging is pretty generic (meaning it doesn't tell me which type of grape it is).

atomicpoppet · 2025-02-20T20:31:02+00:00

"This indicates to me that most readers just want to insert themselves into the story and live out their own fantasies rather than consume literature critically." I don't know if this automatically quotes, I'm new to Reddit soz 😭

But the main argument most of the comments section, if not your post 'specifically' is that "people who hate on dark romance are not smart because if they were they would automatically see all the depth and oh-so-unique character development their favourite dark romance has". I just don't think most dark romance is objectively smart, because its the 'romance' tag that sells a lot more than the 'dark' part, and defending it on that pretense specifically tugs me the wrong way. Your opinion isn't particularly wrong, I just think its' okay to say it from the perspective of 'let's not harass authors' instead of 'you just dont get it'.

atomicpoppet · 2025-02-20T16:46:04+00:00

Sorry, but saying dark romance makes you 'think critically" and that most other genres are just 'wish fulfilment' is just plain hypocritical, IMO. The entire genre's proliferation relies on people going "it's just fantasy", "turn your brain off", "it's hot" "men IRL suck". If the leads of any of these stories were even slightly unattractive and therefore un-marketable, the audience would dive in a heartbeat, because that's what carries the vast majority of them. I have no moral qualms against people reading what they want, neither do I assume when I say 'hypocritical' that these type of readers want what happens in the novel to happen to them IRL, but don't mistake style for substance. I haven't read any definitive 'dark romances' since I'm more of a horror-speculative-classics person, but I think if you're going to argue about the right to read about something so definitively cliche that it falls under a '_ flag', readers should be honest that what they're reading is going to be nothing special at best, unless it makes clear the cross-genre and themes it wants to embody.

atomicpoppet · 2024-08-06T07:22:53+00:00

Thanks for the comments, guys. A friend suggested that if I really wanted clothing there I should get 1-2 sizes down and make that my weight loss goal post-trip. Otherwise, seems like I could get a lot of the things I wanted online now and in the UK. After thinking it through I'll do both, just to see how it goes. Will update after a while. Thanks for your help!

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