for several weeks. maybe even more than a month, i didn't even click on your posts.
i had the naive, solipsistic view that maybe if i stopped clicking on your posts,
you'd just go away.

but you won't go away.
you will never stop posting.
it doesn't even matter how wrong you are.

you are always wrong when you talk about music theory.
you are always wrong when you talk about trends in the music industry.
you are wrong when you post about politics, race relations, and queer theory.
you are even wrong when you post about okayplayer-- which is, ironically enough,
the one topic that you seem to have a lot of experience with.

by my count, you have only been correct 2 times since you've posted here.
in an effort to focus on the positive, i'll list them here.
1) Brian Wilson's "Caroline, No" is a beautiful record.
2) Laffy Taffy was an influential song.

But every other time I've seen you write a post anywhere-- here or in GD--
you are wrong.

i'd ask you to stop being wrong about everything so often,
but i did that already and it didn't help.

but i wonder, does it pain you?
do you get sad when you realize how often you are wrong?
even Alabama Power says something that halfway makes sense once in a while.


but back to the OP.

fad: noun, an intense, wildly shared enthusiasm for something, especially one that is short-lived, and without basis in the object's qualities; a craze.

these are the words you used. which demographic of music consumers were buying hip hop "without basis in its qualities?"

which demographic of music consumers was big enough to
even buy enough records to create a "craze?"

casual rap fans, homie.
if you would have written that not many people care about lyrics,
you'd probably have a point. but that's not what you wrote.
you're wrong.

again.

>thanks again for your time.