Tag: Camera Obscura

• Genre, Values Hierarchies, & Intentionality in Pop

  

  I. Does intentionality matter? Critical consequentialism put to the ultimate test: David Cooper Moore’s “The Scary, Misunderstood Power of a ‘Teen Mom’ Star’s Album”  discusses Farrah Abraham’s infamous pop record My Teenage Dream Ended: It’s tempting to consider My Teenage Dream Ended alongside other reality TV star vanity albums, like Paris Hilton’s excellent (and unfairly…

  suspendedreason

  May 14, 2016

  Essays

  Camera Obscura, categories, category, critical reagents, critical relativism, Elizabeth Wollman, Farrah Abraham, genre, Lou Reed, pop music, poptimism, rockism, transgression, values hierarchies

• Camera Obscura’s Let’s Get Out of This Country

  

  Camera Obscura’s breakthrough Let’s Get Out of This Country was released ten years ago this June. Had I known of the record at the time, it would likely have been relegated to the category of guilty pleasure: something to be listened to but not shared; something enjoyable but not worthy. Rock music, especially after a nineties-alt makeover, was still…

  suspendedreason

  May 7, 2016

  Essays

  Camera Obscura, Lindsay Zoladz, Mumford & Sons, music, pop, poptimism, signaling, subculture rings, The Lumineers