Yes, I Watch Bachelor Pad
A few weeks ago, it was reported that Spotify, the music-streaming service, is introducing a new ?Private Listening? setting for those that wish to not have their ?guilty pleasures? broadcast on Facebook, which would make for a good lead to an Onion article, if only it were satire.?Apparently, it?s not; just ask the many twentysomethings who were caught listening to Maroon 5?nobody was laughing. Because Maroon 5, unlike, for instance, Lady Gaga, cannot be perceived as deliciously awful; it can only be awfully awful.?One is sentimentality dressed in drag, and the other is just plain sentimental, like the cultural equivalent of not being in on the joke?a hipster nightmare.
But if Henry Miller was right, and a lie reveals more than a truth, then a ?guilty pleasure? reveals more than a stated pleasure, which means, often, there?s a difference between what you say you love, and what you really love. And the need to be accepted in the right club never goes away. If that club is related to the arts, or at least is ?artsy,? or ?artistic,? or ?literary,? then you?ll need cultural capital to increase your standing.
Source: http://feeds.slate.com/click.phdo?i=fbdb2c3fb925311da8a9e7fc94237d68
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