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“My first problem with popular culture is that by definition, it is what ‘the people’ have chosen to embrace. But ‘the people’ don’t have a good track record when you look out over the years. I think the less popular, trendy crap you have in your head, the more pure your ideas will be. And I think that if you keep atop pop culture too closely, you might end up bending your creative idea to meet it halfway. I think obscurity is way underrated when it comes [especially] music, art and literature. Nothing is worse when something you’ve loved for years becomes popular and mainstream. There is more at stake when things become popular, especially when there is money behind it. I think if you look back over time, pop culture is a novelty and not much else. There’s not much longevity or substance in popularity”.
- Donald Pendleton