/lit/ - Literature

>>13838352
>unrestrained capitalism
>gay moralizing virtue signaling over based dancing azn qts
stopped reading there

>>12515686
>And you believe culture has now calcified?
I'm not sure what it means. Could mean a lot of different things.

Maybe art/music was never meant to mean as much as it did before. Maybe the monopoly that the institutions (Hollywood, Academia) held on art inflated it's value so high that it was more influential than it ever should have been. Maybe the over-saturation and access to art has made it less impactful. Or maybe nobody has anything truly new or provocative to say (my bet).

In this moment, I think art is meant to be consumed as a purely aesthetic commodity. It is what it is.

I actually find Kpop girl groups fascinating. There's a reason Kpop is one of the only internationally growing styles of music at the moment. It's such a bizarre phenomenon, and the product itself is getting at something that the west isn't able to touch. It's like some sort of neo-bubble gum pop hyper feminine product that doesn't pretend to be anything other than what it is. Is America pop music will try to pretend to have depth or a "message", but Kpop is the absolute antithesis to this in the way that it is just shamelessly a product to be consumed, and in that way it almost gives it more depth because it isn't presenting itself as a lie like American pop does.

There's something going on there