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This article is about how Jamacians like Michael Bolton and Shania Twain mixed in with their Chronixx and Popcaan, and why it is that they don't feel these things are "guilty pleasures"; indeed, its suggested that there is no such THING as a "guilty pleasure" for a Jamaican music fan.
Not a bad jumping off point for a discussion, eh? Perhaps there has already been a guilty pleasures thread but I would like to talk more broadly about cheesiness in music (and in the arts generally, if we must).
I feel like Dissensians aren't adverse to cheese and in fact prefer it to "depth", but that we aren't all Taylor Swift fans ala ILX. Still, the concept of a "hegenomy of taste" or whatever definitely applies to Dissensus, and there is an unwritten code defining what is and isn't acceptable.
I am also looking forward to an argument erupting when luka says Burial is cheesier than Right Said Fred.
What IS cheesiiness?
This article is about how Jamacians like Michael Bolton and Shania Twain mixed in with their Chronixx and Popcaan, and why it is that they don't feel these things are "guilty pleasures"; indeed, its suggested that there is no such THING as a "guilty pleasure" for a Jamaican music fan.
Not a bad jumping off point for a discussion, eh? Perhaps there has already been a guilty pleasures thread but I would like to talk more broadly about cheesiness in music (and in the arts generally, if we must).
I feel like Dissensians aren't adverse to cheese and in fact prefer it to "depth", but that we aren't all Taylor Swift fans ala ILX. Still, the concept of a "hegenomy of taste" or whatever definitely applies to Dissensus, and there is an unwritten code defining what is and isn't acceptable.
I am also looking forward to an argument erupting when luka says Burial is cheesier than Right Said Fred.
What IS cheesiiness?