Trendy?
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- Danski0
Definition of style:
Writing a little monkey into Indiana Jones.
Definition of trendy:
Realising that your college gross-out script sucks *really* bad, you put a monkey in it because monkeys ARE FUNNY NO MATTER WHAT, at least that's what my marketing department tells me.
- Seph0
Trends come and go, style remains. But trend can be a positive thing, a collective force, a unity.
Example; 2 singers both talented at the height of their fame during the 80's. David Bowie has style because he is still seen as cool today, Lionel Richie does not have style thus today is an object of ridicule.
But then Ted Koppel reckoned:
There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.
--Interesting thread though, I like.
- Mal0
once more.......
leopard-style
hyena- fashion
victim-trendydamn my inapropriate analogies.
- providence0
Could the negative aspect of a trend be found in the evil ways of marketing and general misdirection that money produces?
I think the theme of money/marketing and its affect on popularity dictate what stays David Bowie and what goes Lionel Ritchie.
When does a style that has gained popularity lose control of itself? Like does David Bowie still drive his style with as much control as in the Ziggy Stardust daze or is he mainly on cruise control these days?
- Seph0
Overexposure is definately a factor in whether something remains in style heaven or rots in trend hell. After the initial soaring popularity of something the Money/marketing has to take the back seat if it doesnt it quickly turns from ideology to product.
I could be talking wank here.
- Mal0
true Seph.
- mrdobolina0
Lionel Richie did a song with Kenny Rogers, crossovers kill careers.
- providence0
I definitely agree with you Seph.
That being said do stylish artists/creatorz get victimized by the evil marketing geniuses (blatant Dilbert allusion)
at the point that there style get productized? Or do some of the stylish cannabalize their style and produce produce? An elaborate question about sell-outs.
- Mal0
stylish-----
- Mal0
- providence0
Good movie = Sid n' Nancy
Gary Oldman = stylish
(barring 5th element)
- Seph0
Providence, not sure what you mean. It takes a very clever person to know when to get out, fame inflates egos, blurs intellect.
Maddona and George Michael are great examples of people with no style whatsoever but are good at knowing when to abandon ship.
Popularity rarely comes without Marketing. Marketing sells products. Products lose their popularity. And so it starts all over again forever and ever amen.
Gary Oldman got it agreed. I liked his neck manouvre in Leon.
- providence0
Sorry for the late response.
What I meant was that I assume genuinely style-riffic people probably never intend to start a trend. But one of their business savvy "friends"/peers see the opportunity and hence the victimization resulting in trend.
I think that was my point...yes it definitely was.
- unknown0
I'm trendy as hell.
bB