I love all this. All of it. But mostly I just came here to say, people use hoi polloi for the hoity toity? Oh man, that makes me angrier than all the acclaim Haim is getting.

Also, I agree with the whole Cory thing, but they pronounce it hime (to rhyme with, well rhyme and lime and time), and not after the actor who portrayed Lucas (his best role).

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Sure, we could talk about how your desire for an outlet for this pseudo-vitriol about a pop sensation could be motivated by a need for acknowledging you are not like most people our age, and that it’s the flip side of the same desire those people you mention who declare their ignorance of such things is motivated by a need for acknowledging they have adopted the “proper” adult areas of focus (all of this operating at an unconscious level, of course), or we could agree with your self-aware admission of the modest distinction between this disdain and your youthful fondness for the same sort of drivel being time (had there been blogs back then might someone have closed a post with the line “Stacy Q sucks and if you like her I feel sorry for you”? Probably.), and we could ponder what psychologists would make of someone who goes to such efforts to listen twice to something in order get to the point of adding it to a personal pantheon of crap, but I’d rather focus on how you used “hoi polloi” in its proper context (to indicate the common people, rather than the misappropriated connotation of snooty fancy-pants). (I am not kidding about the last part.)

We all have our particular axes to grind. And thanks to the interwebs, we have a global grinder.

These are marvelous times, even if the pop music blows (but 30 years from now HAIM won’t seem so bad because the pop music then is really going to suuuuuuuuuuuuuuck).

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When I heard of HAIM I thought “They named themselves after one of the Corey’s?”

I am old.

Thank you for reminding me that often the dude-rock establishment is wrong.