Things you hated after they got too popular.

[JohnT]

You know how it is: you like this band that appears regularly on your local alternative/college station. All of a sudden they hit it big! Now you can't escape them: All those vapid girls who like Bon Jovi and Backstreet Boys now like your band, those dumbass frat boys are blasting their new album at 1:00am, and only ONE of their damned songs is playing on the radio - but it plays for 14 times a day, per station. So you put away their CD's with regret, knowing that you now have to find a new act and not one that all the kiddies like.

Or your a Titanic buff: you've read both of Lord's books, you have copies of the transcripts of the various inquiry boards, you even bought every Titanic CD-ROM you could find at your local Best Buy. Then the movie comes out and now, dream of dreams!, EVERYBODY is talking about Titanic - except they're not talking about your Titanic, they're talking about the one that exists in the movie. So you think, "ah, f*** it. I'll study the Morro Castle or the Indianapolis or something."

Face it - we're all elitists here and stuff like this happens to us all the damned time. What things have gotten so popular that you now hold them with disdain or boredom, whereas before you enjoyed them?

[The Mad Monk]

It's never happened to me.

Either my interests never become popular, or they're already popular by the time I find them.

To get in on the ground floor of something would be a refreshing change.

[Dauphin]

Apolyton.

[RGBVideo]

Lord of the Rings. Altough it had huge hordes of fans already before the movie,
it pisses me off sometimes, knowing that after 10 years, when I'll still love the storyline,
the ones who don't know jack about it are comparing me then to themselves now,
of course they were hating themselves, considering that most of the new fans are making
fool of themselves, so... (Yes, I would consider it as elitism, but... O'well)

[Buck Birdseed]

You're missing two clear options.

(a) I'm a dumb frat boy/vapid Bon Jovi-loving girl and I think musical quality and popularity are statistically correlated, aka. the "Asher" option.

(b) My actual choice, which is: If I find something I think is excellent, I want nothing more than for everyone else to like it as well. I am a missionary and my gospel is Rock.

[General Ludd]

Lords of the Rings.


Not that I really dedicated much to it before, I'd just read the books once... But it was one of the first books I read on my own, and my father also read them to me when I was a kid. I just hate going to the book store and all of a sudden seeing an entire wall dedicated to 50 different versions of it (ie. 50 different book covers) and all sorts of stupid merchandise and crap, it sort of ruins the sentimental value it had for me.

[Kropotkin]

The most annoying thing isn't really when it's popular but afterwards. You find something you like (whatever that is) and later it becomes popular and after that when it all fades away due to overcommercialisation (think about it; Shane MacGowan- the action figure!!!) people think of you not as a individual with a individual taste but as a nerd.

[RGBVideo]

The most annoying thing isn't really when it's popular but afterwards. You find something you like (whatever that is) and later it becomes popular and after that when it all fades away due to overcommercialisation (think about it; Shane MacGowan- the action figure!!!) people think of you not as a individual with a individual taste but as a nerd.

Agree completely. This is exactly what I was trying to tell... O'well - back to Engrish studies...

[Kropotkin]

No, I got it. I just agreed with you and elaborated a bit.

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by Kropotkin
The most annoying thing isn't really when it's popular but afterwards. You find something you like (whatever that is) and later it becomes popular and after that when it all fades away due to overcommercialisation (think about it; Shane MacGowan- the action figure!!!) people think of you not as a individual with a individual taste but as a nerd.

I don´t care about such things. If a book, a movie or whatever, is great, it is still great when more people like. Merchandizing stuff can be annoying, but it doesn´t change much for me, I try to ignore it...

[-Jrabbit]

It happened to me a lot when I was in college in the 70s. Bands that I had "discovered" paled dramatically if they got too popular. Bruce Springsteen and Boston leap to mind. In my more punkish 80s period, it was true of Talking Heads, Patti Smith, The Clash.

Similarly, when something is hyped as "msut see" or "must hear" I tend to run in the opposite direction. There are a lot of movies I've still never seen (eg, "The Exorcist") for this reason.

[Chris 62]

I would say Star Trek.

I liked it when it was a fun adventure series in the 60s (which I saw on reruns for the first time in 1970).

Now, it has all kinds of things attached to to it, to the point where every little detail is argued back and forth (and I'm guilty of this also! )

[Seneca]

This thread was really good until all you shallow plebs came along.

[Kropotkin]

Originally posted by BeBro
I don´t care about such things. If a book, a movie or whatever, is great, it is still great when more people like. Merchandizing stuff can be annoying, but it doesn´t change much for me, I try to ignore it...

I didn't say i stopped liking it, I said i found it annoying that others think I like what's popular or used to be popular. I doesn't mean that much anymore since I've more and more started to ignore other people but still...

[SpencerH]

Its as pathetic to stop liking something just because it becomes popular as it is to like it just because it is popular.