All I'll say about your Vanilla for the lulz, is that LULZ is what shaped what came after it, and turned music into the biggest media lul of all time. Do I need to run down the 2011 evidence of this or will this suffice - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzspsovNvII

>I don't think we can (or SHOULD, anyway) seek to isolate
>ourselves from all kinds of stimuli that we don't necessarily
>find pleasurable. LIfe is a mix of some good stuff and some
>bad... and yeah, we gravitate towards what we think is good,
>but without the bad, the good ultimately becomes mediocre.


But c'mon man this is nonsense. One doesn't isolate oneself, one finds their own place within it all... comfortably. I mean look at hip-hop. Errol talked about how the old video shows kept it diverse. What's the flip side of that though? Artists doing whatever to appeal to the current rather than being themselves. How many artists have fallen prey to *THAT*. And then you get listeners. I mean seriously, I thought Ruff Ryders was the epitome of vicarious hip-hop fandom, but the ish we see today is just insane.

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