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The narrative voice of song lyrics being indeterminate enough to resonate with experiences that aren't necessarily the writer's own is the default state of pop songwriting. LOUD has a strong queer reading because that resonance is strong there, but I do think there's even more to it. The exclusive construction, that is, the construction rejecting all other interpretations, of the identity of the…
Here in the West, at least, we didn't really begin moralizing consumption choices as a kind of ideological political profile until the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Then, neoliberal deregulation successfully depoliticized society as the post-WW2 socioeconomic consensus eroded and it became clear the Cold War was ending in total Western hegemony; free market politics…
A redditor replying to the r/kpopthoughts post titled "Idols are real people, REAL👏🏻 PEOPLE👏🏻 CAN'T 👏🏻 QUEERBAIT 👏🏻" writes: No, that saying ["real people can't queerbait"] exists because people like coming up with blanket rules for complex cultural situations and feel comforted by their certainty even though they won’t be accurate in every situation. What it originally meant was ‘if a…