Like the Great Black Hope did yesterday, I am taking a break from politics today to sound off on pop culture.
John Grisham openly states that he doesn't take himself too seriously as a writer -- he just writes pulp for the masses and rakes in the dough. That puts him in with Coldplay, who often deflect criticism of their music as bland and unoriginal by saying that they aren't innovative -- they just give the people what they want.
Just two questions:
- If you are a fan, aren't they laughing at you? "Yeah, this isn't very good, but, then, you aren't very discerning."
- What satisfaction do you get from producing in a medium that is normally associated with artistic free expression, but which you have purposely wittled down to mere artisanship?
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I feel as though the fans in question are consumers in the simplest and most base manner possible. These aren't people who look for ecstasy or epiphany through art. These are people who want something to help them maintain the walking-coma state that our capitalist culture promotes.
That's why artists like Robyn Hitchcock and authors like Daniel Manus Pinkwater are marginalized and ignored. It's also why so few people read poetry any more...
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