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Wait, that guy is "the biggest artist in the world"? I've never heard of him until this whole thing happened.
On the other hand, I very much live in a musical bubble where I basically only ever hear music that I myself put on, and even I had heard of Bad Bunny.
I may have not listened to the music of most modern artist, like, IDK, Sabrina Carpenter, Dua Lipa etc., but I've still heard of them. Not Bad Bunny though.
That moment when we realize we're at the ppint where pop culture is passing us by rather than being targeted at us...
(Honestly, if it weren't for some of the younglings on my soccer team I'd have only learned about Bad Bunny in the Economist, which is a pretty embarrassingly uncool way to learn about pop culture.)
Nah, that would be fine. Pop culture isn't cool. Pop culture is (mostly) boring shit for the masses, because it is bland enough, that a majority of people don't have an issue with it. You are fine if you only hear about it from your grown up magazine.
To each their own. I definitely used to just listen to my own punk shit and disdain pop but the older I get, the more I see value in something fun with a catchy beat that a lot of people can dance and sing to at once. The classic tunes I dig were also pop once before they became old people tunes.
It's like anything, if all you listen to is pop, that's probably not great but if you refuse to listen to any, you're probably missing out.
If you had told 12-year-old me that someday I would enjoy Ace of Base, I would have thought you were an idiot. Yet here we are.
Hey, I really don't want to talk you down or be destructive or anything. My point is on the contrary:
You are not uncool, lame or whatever, if you don't know contemporary pop culture. There are some fine songs, everybody likes. They become classics, as you say. Most pop shit is just a short-lived fad, nobody will remember in a few months. If you like that kind of music, it is also absolutely fine.
Oh, my apologies, I didn't meant to jump off the top ropes to defend pop culture etc. And absolutely, all sorts of routes to cool.
That being said, I'm a middle age man and am thus by classic definition, the anti cool.
Believe me, I have an over abundance of confidence, I know I'm cool in all the things that matter. But I also know that my time at the cultural forefront (whether your culture is pop, punk, underground, whatever) has passed, that's off to the next generation.
I think of it like, while I still go to some of the larger underground events, I'm not one of the tastemakers that some of my friends were in our youth etc and I damn well won't have heard of any of the bands but on the other hand, I am at the point where I can help out by buying all the merch.
According to number of streams it'd be Taylor Swift or Bad Bunny, but Bunny has a much smaller catalogue and fewer active years. (And I think conservatives would be as annoyed if Taylor played as she was pretty outspoken about trump.)
But yeah, his music has been everywhere. Anecdotally, I think it's been played at 3/3 weddings I was at this summer, which I thought was neat considering none of the couples speaks Spanish.
I've (sadly) heard about Taylor Swift, but never heard one of her song (maybe a few second extract), but this is the first time I hear about "Bad Bunny"
I mean, if you're haven't really listened to arguably the biggest artist in the world, are you really surprised you don't know about the other big ones?
News media report (more like promote) about them, whether you listen to their stuff or not
I haven't heard about "Bad Bunny" in my country, which apparently is worth being downvoted for
Yeah, that surprised me. My guess is that your comment came off a little "how can this be popular if I haven't hesrd of it?" Which feels kinda boomery.
Don't know what to tell you, he's been on Canadian news a few times, subject of at least two Economist articles, BBC articles, Guardian articles etc. Maybe you missed the reports? I mean, if you don't know the name of the guy announced to headline the Super Bowl (by definition, fairly goshdarn famous) it's not like you'd be expected to be in touch with who is popular etc.