And you know, I want to say something else Everybody I knew from MY generation who was particularly stannish and obsessive about pop music in their teens? They were the most vile, snotty goddamn people. Gamers BECAME worse than them, but I don't know that they were at that age
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
This isn't really about music itself though, like it's pretty obvious most of these fans are just fans of these artists' public persona more than even the music itself What they're actually consuming isn't songs so much as a steady feed of social media content
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
"Music" is the medium where this happens most easily because having musical talent of some kind is the easiest way to convince people to put you on a stage and perform some exaggerated persona in public It's much harder to just break into that as an actor
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Like usually an actor has to come up by acting in other people's stuff in roles written by someone else The form of "acting" where you have the most personal control is standup comedy, and we can see what's been happening with "comedians are the new rock stars"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
My favorite punchline is the moment in The Prestige where the owner of the theater fires Hugh Jackman after the debacle where Christian Bale sabotages his disappearing birdcage trick *fuming* "I've had to book a comedian, and you know how I hate comedians"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Comedians and magicians, the endless rivalry between two extremely pure forms of childish attention seeking behavior that grown adults turn into whole careers
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
That magician/comedian rivalry should really be a symbiosis. Nothing primes an audience for one like the other.
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Which of course brings us to the pinnacle of the symbiosis, the comedy magic act, which both magic and comedy snobs see the way music and theatre nerds see musical theatre
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(On the comedy side, after all, the comedy magician is just the final evolution of the prop comic)
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