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Post by smellslikesomeghost on Jun 28, 2006 13:31:41 GMT
I don't often go there now either. Once upon a time it was fabulous, and like some other folk have said there were definite personalities that were entertaining and interesting to read (I will always stop for a Tim post even if I have no interest in the subject.) Now it seems quite samey, and even the bitching isn't witty or original. Plus I don't care about most of the bands and singers discussed.
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Post by I Hate Lana Lang on Jun 28, 2006 17:53:06 GMT
Plus I don't care about most of the bands and singers discussed. I agree. It's like a ghost town now. Deuce and Brooke Hogan and all these other nonentities and worse, Paris Hilton. Christ. I actually worked for Peter doing the NewsDump alongside some other people. I submitted five stories per day except at weekends (most others didn't even bother) and now he's changed it and I didn't hear back from him. Of course he's busy with work and PopJustice takes up a lot of his time and it's not a big thing really but still, I wondered if I'd pissed him off unintentionally. I do that you see! I should have emailed and asked him shouldn't I?
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Post by SweatShop on Jun 28, 2006 20:57:22 GMT
I have to say, I didn't think i'd ever miss the Camden boards this much. And I know i've moaned about it over there previously but I think it was definately the board I used to go on the most as i'm very much into the indie lark. Post about certain artists on the Pop and Justice board and it'll be on the third page with no replies by the end of the day.
You don't know what you got 'til it's gone. Ok, i'll shut up now. I will say though that Raspberry has a point and that I post a hell of a lot more on the boards that broke away from Popjustice (Lowculture and Life Itself)
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Jun 29, 2006 19:44:23 GMT
PJ boards are like groundhog day.
I challenge you to find a thread about an artist which doesn't contain someone saying that said artist should work with Richard X or Xenomania.
And I've lost count of all the Girls Aloud threads that have simply turned into posters listing the singles they would have released off Chemistry.
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Jul 2, 2006 3:48:29 GMT
The problem is that it's became too popular. People have said it was good "back in the day" when it was more exclusive. Also, people get very passionate about music, much more so than TV, and become more obsessed with popstars than with actors or other TV stars. An current example is that moron on PJ at the moment who keeps spamming about Nicki French (of all people).
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Post by I Hate Lana Lang on Jul 2, 2006 12:45:17 GMT
An current example is that moron on PJ at the moment who keeps spamming about Nicki French (of all people). I think I've just dealt with him! I also agree - PopJustice is very commercial now, which isn't a bad thing, but the elitist in me is gutted. That's a wooly minded, indie thinking I know.
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Post by Mike on Jul 2, 2006 15:54:49 GMT
The problem is that the content of the board no longer mirrors that of the site (which is still as good as ever), as it once did. As others have pointed out, in a way it's a victim of its own success - the site's increasingly high profile has attracted a lot of idiots who all seem desperate to be the first to slate something, and usually with nothing more intelligent or witty than 'it's shit', '(s)he's ugly and fat' etc.
As a result, the best posters are deserting the site. Steven (in his former life as Pandarama) used to make me laugh constantly. Kittens-In-Mittens' posts were always a joy to read, and made me seek out new music I might otherwise never have heard of. ShariVari once wrote such an amazing review of a Mylene Farmer concert that I found myself wishing I'd been there - and I can't stand Mylene Farmer. When you compare that to the current slew of threads that run along these lines:
"Paris Hilton is great!" 'No she fucking isn't' "Well that's ur opinion" 'Rachel Stevens would have done it better' "She should work with Xenomania"
....well, there really is no comparison.
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Post by WhiteNoiseMaker on Jul 2, 2006 17:55:36 GMT
Whilst I've always loved PJ, the boards there have always been a lot less friendly seeming than these almighty fields of popular cultural discussage. Peter Robinson is obviously a brilliant, very funny writer and the site has always been an essential read but sometimes his posts (as well as those of some of the other PJ big hitters) are a bit curt/intimidating.
I still read PJ a lot, desperate as I am to find out anything about a Tina Barrett solo album, but of course I'm always going to prefer here to there - I mean look, there's a board called 'Big Brother Culture' on here for crying out loud!
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Post by pauliepoos on Jul 4, 2006 22:11:49 GMT
The final straw was seeing a member telling another a poster that they literally hated them, in a Pink thread of all places. Haven't been back since really. I only visit the home page and it's spin offs these days, I still adore the website. I think I know who that was! When popjustice went down again, and my log in wouldn't work I couldn't be arsed re-registering. I feel the same way about Popjustice as I did about Smash Hits. I used to be cutting and witty and playful, and now it isn't. Maureen's posts were vaguely amusing (I imagine he's a bored journalist called Leslie) but I just can't find the energy to contribute myself.
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Post by I Hate Lana Lang on Jul 9, 2006 19:37:14 GMT
I adore Maureen. We send messages to each other and say nice things about each other.
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Post by Gordon on Jul 11, 2006 19:23:37 GMT
I still log on it daily, but the excitements not the same. I used to really savour reading it all, imagining I was tapping into something astonishingly refreshing and relevant to my tastes. I remember it took me ages to even realise there was a messageboard along with it.
It was seen, and still should be, as credible and, doing pop proper justice, the way we all remeber or appreciate it in our own peculiarities. But maybe too many people wanted a peice of it. E.g, it became boring reading Attitude magazine reviews that couldn't go 3 sentences without referencing the site, which almosty defeated the purposes of reviewing it themselves. So of course something of the original spirit would begin to feel lost.
Until recently, I was what's perhaps seen as 'frenemies' with someone (my best friend was a person I loathed and despised - bare with me), and they said to me on MSN: 'do you want to go bitch on popjustice?' Or something like that, and apart from being angrily speechless, the results from his lowest of the low comments read like the death knell of popjustice. This person doesn't have an interest in pop music per say, I would imagine it was an attempt to gain attention, and it's misguided validation seeking that clogs the pipes.
1 of my favourite posters was Mr Flamboyant (well, he said he was my biggest fan) or even Jack (I don't think I would have been interested in the song Whoop if it weren't for him). To my knowledge, these users will have changed names. I know I did: I once wore the tag 'bitch' in mine, which wasn't intended as a po-faced mission statement. However, things get lost in translation and even recently I was basically given a bit of a verbal acid-peel simply because - lacking discerning judgement - I challenged someone for being a bit of a pretentious hanger on. It's when users don't take time to relate their opinions, which makes everything so much more bearable and even provocative, that the shit hits the fan and Nikki French is "no. 1" again.
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Post by lowculture.co.uk on Jul 11, 2006 20:30:14 GMT
Well, hopefully we can now find more interesting things to discuss on this messageboard than how good/rubbish another messageboard is.
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