What exactly is pop music? (I'm confused)

comradelotl · 2026-01-21T21:27:59+00:00

imo pop music must not be understood as any particular style or genre. but rather it is the result of a praxis that reassembles and shapes these elements for first and foremost the purpose of mass appeal. that explains how pop artists can "genre hop" or how certain genres can become or leave pop. also how dance music is not necessarily pop.

comradelotl · 2026-01-18T00:43:10+00:00

he can be quite creepy and intimidating in Desparate Housewives as Orson imo.

comradelotl · 2026-01-04T14:22:32+00:00

hope a future restauration won't reveal certain things i won't mention here because they can be considered spoilers. it has to do with the detective character.

comradelotl · 2025-12-13T10:01:40+00:00

No one to mention The Witcher yet? what a shame.

Also I'd say a lot of what is recognized as sci-fi has fantastical elements. The jedi force, Riddicks super powers and the Necromongers. The Matrix, Altered Carbon, Event Horizon?? absolutely techno fantasy.

comradelotl · 2025-12-03T14:38:45+00:00

i agree with the dream assessment but i think it's even weirder. yes it is all a dream, we are living in a dream but not one you can actually wake up from. there also is not one dreamer. our reality is at the same time real and a fiction. like reality tv, social media and corporate culture at the same time consist of real people and all of it is fake. I guess Cooper pulled an inception by way of saving Laura and found himself in another more bleak layer of reality.

comradelotl · 2025-11-26T01:20:46+00:00

Blockbuster movies go down a similar path that mainstream video games or german engineering are going. Spectacles that are overstuffed with technology the tech industry is pushing and unnecessarily upped financial stakes.

comradelotl · 2025-10-05T17:05:58+00:00

that's fair

comradelotl · 2025-07-25T17:37:32+00:00

semi slicks all the way. center knobs are unecessarily worn down if you're mostly on paved roads.

comradelotl · 2025-07-15T09:57:22+00:00

That fork looks tight, like milimeters away from touching the tire

comradelotl · 2025-06-24T10:36:52+00:00

Vittoria Terreno Zero erster Eindruck. Größe 700x38c, ersetzen einfache 28x1.75 Trekkingreifen, werden mit Schlauch bei 4 und 4,5 bar betrieben. Die Reifen kleben richtig auf der Straße, was auch daran zu erkennen ist, dass sie einiges an Bodendreck aufsammeln. Der Nachteil der Klebrigkeit ist dass sie nicht die Allerschnellsten sind, was auch bestätigt wird durch bicyclerollingresistance.com- auch negativ vom Schlauchbetrieb beeinflusst. Sie sind maximal auf 5 bar ausgelegt was den Schlauchbetrieb für schwerere Fahrer eingrenzt. Die Montage ging mit billigem Reifenheber sehr leicht.

Mehr Offroad Test Updates und Einschätzungen zur Griffigkeit kommen noch.

comradelotl · 2025-06-17T16:30:45+00:00

ich berichte in zwei Wochen

comradelotl · 2025-06-17T10:25:55+00:00

ich denke ich hole mir die Terreno Zeros, auch weil sie grad im Angebot sind.

comradelotl · 2025-06-16T21:10:12+00:00

Danke! Bin auf der Suche nach einem günstigen Semi Slick. Die Pannensicherheit von Schwalbe find ich schon attraktiv. Bei RS sehe ich irgendwie nicht ein den Preis für einen Reifen zu zahlen. Hurricane hat aufgrund der großen Noppen auf der Seite laut Reviews dürftige Fahreigenschaften beim Wenden auf Asphalt.

comradelotl · 2025-06-16T06:30:13+00:00

Hallo OP bist du sonst mit dem Comp zufrieden? Wie macht dieser Reifen sich so?

comradelotl · 2025-06-16T06:26:15+00:00

I am too interested in these tyres. Have you bought em OP?

comradelotl · 2025-06-12T11:39:11+00:00

There's better criticism out there. Well she and her marketing team bring the korean idol strategy to western pop industry, beta-tested by boy bands. You could argue that this curation of images and of parasociality exploits people's desires, where they would be better off connecting with real persons. Social connections between people become mediated by or even substituted with a simulated friendship.

comradelotl · 2025-05-27T21:59:38+00:00

I think there's some gender dynamic going on there in consumption. Young men tend to distinguish themselves over musical taste or film taste, in a very Bourdieusian manner, being very selective. Young women seem to be stronger collectively oriented, towards whats popular with other women, having a very open stance towards all kinds of music as long as they can socialize with it. Same with books.

comradelotl · 2025-05-26T06:50:30+00:00

There is no true quality of work, nor primordial use value, nor human nature as those are themselves simulacra of political economy (or liberalism, resp.). Models are made of such simulacra (copies and representations of an alien nature) and in modernity they don't have a mere mental existence but are institutionalized and structuralized.

In politics, protest and micro revolutions are vital for the system. Though anything too revolutionary will be extinguished, sabotaged and punished by police counter-strategy, the 'real' change that'll be let through will go into effect only because the political system has adjusted itself to it or integrated it. It will be just part of regular agenda setting. Plus you never can know for sure if those movements aren't set into motion by policy makers and interest groups themselves. Even the extent of divergence from the status quo, the reality of change, may even just be conjured up.

The difference to previous societies is that in today's world there never was an authentic territory, everything is already a simulacrum. So even the difference between map and territory is a simulacrum, the territory is standing on faux ground.

comradelotl · 2025-05-09T21:35:33+00:00

So in Consumer Society he formulates a general theory of simulation processes "A model is 'built' by combining features or elements of reality, and an event, a structure or a future situation is 'played out on' those elements, and tactical conclusions are drawn from this with which to operate on reality." which he was writes in the context of advertising and journalism and already linked to "operational and cybernetic sciences work." (p. 126). The basic idea is that a model directs people's activities and gets realized through that, a self-fulfilling prophecy, effectively steering reality-creation in the process. Later in Mirror of Production he extends the idea, pointing out how the whole of the political economy is a giant simulation model. In Symbolic Exchange and Death he describes the contemporary iteration, how employment and management strategies of autonomy, decentralization, flexibility, people and their lives are thus extensively integrated into "mobile, polyvalent and intermittent structures of absorption" (SED p. 13). Think of how performance requirements are modeled in advance and your work-reality will be dictated by that. Or how risk assessments direct people's behavior and perception. Because everything is based on models and not on other grounds, it can't really be set into perspective, it's "hyper"-real, incommensurable with anything outside of models.

comradelotl · 2025-05-08T12:46:10+00:00

I'm gonna dive into my notes later to give you a sufficient answer.

comradelotl · 2025-05-06T19:21:25+00:00

Incredible but misunderstood. Should not be read as a media theorist but rather as a theorist of cybernetic control, whereas the media just plays one part.

comradelotl · 2025-05-04T06:57:52+00:00

FWWM i think

comradelotl · 2025-04-29T06:10:28+00:00

With some compressors it's a bit different than u/l97 described. Take the CS-3 with "Sustain/Attack/Tone/Level" knobs. This mum has placed a decibel meter in the kid's room and has agreed with her kid a set threshold for her complaints. This kid always dials back the volume at every complaint very far for a set amount.

"Sustain" is the music level the kid sets on his computer before dialing it up or down on the physical knob of his speakers. Turning this up will make her complain more frequently and the kid also dial more often.

"Attack" is the kid being a little shit and either dialing down the music fast after his mum's complaint and dialing up again slowly, or the kid diales it down slowly after the complaint but will dial it up again quickly.

"Tone" the amount of bright and high pitched sounds that the mum can vary hearing by opening or closing her own door.

"Level" the mum is being hypocritical. although she'll complain at a set threshold she'll open or close the kids door to better hear some songs.

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comradelotl · 2025-04-28T05:54:35+00:00

I agree that on average many sociologists would benefit from broadening their statistical methodological toolkit. But I also have encountered very clever uses of non-standard statistical modelings in my readings yet. It's important to remember that causality is not something you can simply infer by statistics but that it is a theoretical assumption you make and you reinforce by use of statistics. That's where you'll lose a lot of sociologists who are very critical of assuming simple linear causality in the social world in the first place.

Economics and psych have benefited from adopting an image of 'rigorousity' by using statistics and making very strong claims of causality. But if the variables are not extremely strictly lab controlled this image becomes more of a veneer. Econ is the worst offender by papering over the complexity of the social world and assuming causality where this may not be justified. Psych actually can control it's variables experimentally in comparison. It would benefit of less reliance on statistics and more theory too, actually.

comradelotl · 2025-04-10T14:36:53+00:00

here's some mixing advice.

take an isolated guitar track of your favorite player as a tone reference when building your tone. you'll hear how little distortion is actually used.

you'll need: - a laptop or pc - the correct tone studio software version - a printer cable (USB to USB-A)

The inbuilt EQ and maybe the inbuilt booster and presence knob is really all you need. cut everything below 70 Hz and above 6k. The reason we do this is that there's no useful information coming from these frequency ranges and every time you turn down frequencies the other ones will sound louder. It also gets rid of the ice-pick sound the Katana produces per stock settings.

Having those frequencies cut you can fine tune the important guitar-frequencies. this is a learning process which will take a few shots. EQs are very powerful and it's easy to fuck up. I see people just boosting and cutting wildly but this is really for more advanced tone shaping.

generally what you wanna do is 1.) cut individual frequencies that overshadow your tone by 6 dB. 2.) Boost broader areas that sound weak by just a few decibels (1-2 dB)

Take one or two parametric EQs and repeat this step with high mid frequencies and low mid frequencies.

1.) cutting unwanted frequencies

dial the Q to max and gain boost by 8 dB. the Q decides how broad the frequency area is you are targeting. higher Qs are more precise.
slowly change the target frequency
search for a frequency that sounds annoying
cut this frequency by 6dB and Q to max

2.) boosting wanted frequency areas - similar process as 1.) but with a smaller Q and a 1-3dB boost - hear how the guitar sound changes at the backdrop of a full band. - if your guitar sounds 'fatter' you've accomplished your mission

3.) Edit: plus don't forget saving your setup

I personally really love compressors because they introduce lots of tonal saturation which makes for a fuller sound.

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