"Do I listen to _____? Are you kidding? No way. I'm not mainstream, I listen to ______"
One of the most annoying conversations one can have.
It's one thing to have your music tastes - everyone does. Some of you like My Chemical Romance, some of you prefer your Adele. That's fine, that's fine. But the real problem comes when you start bragging, and telling people how mainstream you are, or how not mainstream you are, and going out of your way to buy as many posters and CDs from the most mainstream of all mainstream artists, or going drastically in the other direction.
But the question is, who's worse?
Mainstreamers? Or Backstreamers?
In case you haven't picked up, mainstreamers are those people who buy up all the concert tickets for the most popular artists at the time, and talk and talk and talk about how awesome these artists are, just so they can be up with all the latest trends.
And backstreamers are those who take pride in not listening to the mainstream artists. They'll go as far as possible away from anything other people might like, to the point that they're just as bad as the mainsteamers.
Take the Bebliebers. Justin Bieber. Personally, I don't like pop so I don't listen to him, but I have nothing against the Biebs. Why would I? I don't know him. And, technically, he's no different than any other artist out there, just trying to make a buck or two or few million. So why all the hating? Why all the going around saying,
"Psh, I HATE Justin Bieber, I listen to Linkin Park."
Linkin Park is about as mainstream as it gets right now. Face it, fans. And I have nothing against Linkin Park, either. But then you have those,
"Psh, I HATE Linkin Park, I listen to Ke$sha."
I don't know anything about Ke$sha because it's just not my music taste, but I think you get the picture. Fans of certain things go to extremes to hate something other fans are fans of, and the fanning and the hating can get horribly out of control.
Recently, I read a "story" about how much some backstreamer (not self-proclaimed, I'm just calling her that because I can't give out names) hates Justin Bieber. Why would she say that, you ask? One of her excuses was because all he sings about is girls and money, apparently. And was it my imagination, or was she also a fan of some Mr. Money Bags who only sings about cars and girls and money? I don't remember the exact artist, but you know what I mean.
And it doesn't just go for music, either. How about the Twilight debate? At first, Twilight was just another series, and if you liked it, you liked it. And then, once it got popular, it was sooooo awesome and if you were a real teenage girl and not some alien zapped down from outer space, you had to like it. And now, since it's gotten far too popular for some backsteamers to handle, they all have to come out of the woodwork and say how much they ABHOR this series.
Well, I don't like sparkly vampires or werewolves (oh, excuse me - shape-shifters), but I don't go around expressing my distaste to the world. Technically, it won't help anything. Just like it won't help anything to be a screaming fan who has millions of posters and is overall obsessed with something, rampaging the streets and calling anyone who doesn't like something you're obsessed with a loser, or worse, or sending out death threads (ahem, tweenage girls of Twitter) because someone is stealing your guy right out from under your nose when he's how-many-miles away, and probably doesn't even know you exist.
For the record, I am not a backstreamer or a mainstreamer. For anything that I said I didn't like, I just don't like it - period. And I mentioned it. Here. In an article. Why? Because it was an example. EXAMPLE. I don't like Harry Potter, either (don't kill me), or the Hunger Games (I'm hiding now). But don't get me wrong, I don't see anything wrong with liking them, and I would if any of those things were my taste.
But they aren't.
Alas.
And if you do like them, and you're screaming at your monitor right now as you read this, then I guess you'd be a Rabid Fan, which falls under the mainstreamer category. And if you're simply rolling your eyes at the mere mention of any of these names, then I guess you're a backstreamer. But if you agree with me on any of these points I've made...
...Well...I guess you're an Epic Person.
Falling under the Most Erratic Hero category.
One of the most annoying conversations one can have.
It's one thing to have your music tastes - everyone does. Some of you like My Chemical Romance, some of you prefer your Adele. That's fine, that's fine. But the real problem comes when you start bragging, and telling people how mainstream you are, or how not mainstream you are, and going out of your way to buy as many posters and CDs from the most mainstream of all mainstream artists, or going drastically in the other direction.
But the question is, who's worse?
Mainstreamers? Or Backstreamers?
In case you haven't picked up, mainstreamers are those people who buy up all the concert tickets for the most popular artists at the time, and talk and talk and talk about how awesome these artists are, just so they can be up with all the latest trends.
And backstreamers are those who take pride in not listening to the mainstream artists. They'll go as far as possible away from anything other people might like, to the point that they're just as bad as the mainsteamers.
Take the Bebliebers. Justin Bieber. Personally, I don't like pop so I don't listen to him, but I have nothing against the Biebs. Why would I? I don't know him. And, technically, he's no different than any other artist out there, just trying to make a buck or two or few million. So why all the hating? Why all the going around saying,
"Psh, I HATE Justin Bieber, I listen to Linkin Park."
Linkin Park is about as mainstream as it gets right now. Face it, fans. And I have nothing against Linkin Park, either. But then you have those,
"Psh, I HATE Linkin Park, I listen to Ke$sha."
I don't know anything about Ke$sha because it's just not my music taste, but I think you get the picture. Fans of certain things go to extremes to hate something other fans are fans of, and the fanning and the hating can get horribly out of control.
Recently, I read a "story" about how much some backstreamer (not self-proclaimed, I'm just calling her that because I can't give out names) hates Justin Bieber. Why would she say that, you ask? One of her excuses was because all he sings about is girls and money, apparently. And was it my imagination, or was she also a fan of some Mr. Money Bags who only sings about cars and girls and money? I don't remember the exact artist, but you know what I mean.
And it doesn't just go for music, either. How about the Twilight debate? At first, Twilight was just another series, and if you liked it, you liked it. And then, once it got popular, it was sooooo awesome and if you were a real teenage girl and not some alien zapped down from outer space, you had to like it. And now, since it's gotten far too popular for some backsteamers to handle, they all have to come out of the woodwork and say how much they ABHOR this series.
Well, I don't like sparkly vampires or werewolves (oh, excuse me - shape-shifters), but I don't go around expressing my distaste to the world. Technically, it won't help anything. Just like it won't help anything to be a screaming fan who has millions of posters and is overall obsessed with something, rampaging the streets and calling anyone who doesn't like something you're obsessed with a loser, or worse, or sending out death threads (ahem, tweenage girls of Twitter) because someone is stealing your guy right out from under your nose when he's how-many-miles away, and probably doesn't even know you exist.
For the record, I am not a backstreamer or a mainstreamer. For anything that I said I didn't like, I just don't like it - period. And I mentioned it. Here. In an article. Why? Because it was an example. EXAMPLE. I don't like Harry Potter, either (don't kill me), or the Hunger Games (I'm hiding now). But don't get me wrong, I don't see anything wrong with liking them, and I would if any of those things were my taste.
But they aren't.
Alas.
And if you do like them, and you're screaming at your monitor right now as you read this, then I guess you'd be a Rabid Fan, which falls under the mainstreamer category. And if you're simply rolling your eyes at the mere mention of any of these names, then I guess you're a backstreamer. But if you agree with me on any of these points I've made...
...Well...I guess you're an Epic Person.
Falling under the Most Erratic Hero category.
- your most erratic hero
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