Really really good stuff and really really bad stuff tend not to catch on with the general populace. Beyond that generalization, popularity and quality don't have much of a correlation, positive or negative.
What do you consider to be really really good stuff?
Duke Ellington: "Mount Harrissa".
Orbital: "The Girl with the Sun in Her Head"
Dick Dale: "Hava Nagila"
Milt Jackson & Wes Montgomery: "Stairway to the Stars"
Talking Heads: "Once in a Lifetime"
Daniel Amos: "The Pool"
Jaga Jazzist: "Reminders"
My original post may have been worded a little too strongly. As I see it, the best stuff takes risks and blazes new territory. When you do that, you run the risk of audiences not understanding or getting irritated. Super popularity means keeping your audience confusion/irritation to an absolute minimum by not rocking the boat. But it's still possible to make good stuff within a genre's most strictly defined boundaries (as, I suppose, some of my above examples demonstrate).
Deep in the Costa Rican jungle, a fisherman named Chito discovered a crocodile that had been shot in the eye by a cattle farmer and left for dead. Chito was able to drag the massive reptile into his boat and brought him to his home, where he stayed by his side for months, nursing him back to health.
He named the croc Pocho. "I stayed by Pocho's side while he was ill, sleeping next to him at night. I just wanted him to feel that somebody loved him, that not all humans are bad." said Chito, ""It meant a lot of sacrifice. I had to be there every day. I love all animals -- especially ones that have suffered."
The day finally came when Pocho was strong enough to go back into the wild. Chito took him to a lake near his house and released him, but the animal simply got back out of the water and followed him home. "Then I found out that when I called his name he would come over to me." says Chito. The fisherman has been hesitant to tell his story, even though 20 years have passed since he first rescued Pocho.
Pocho is roughly 5.18 meters (17 feet) long. He and Chito play, wrestle and hug on a daily basis. That bond, Chito said, took years to forge.
"After a decade I started to work with him.", says Chito casually, "At first it was slow, slow. I played with him a bit, slowly doing more."
Chito has told his story now only to raise awareness of the cruelty that can be done to animals, and the difference that affection and treating other rightly can make.
"He's my friend, I don't want to treat him like a slave or exploit him." said Chito, "I am happy because I rescued him and he is happy with me because he has everything he needs."
Now brb raiding China and freeing my Chinese Alligator brethren.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Anonus is the best
As of today we've been a couple (officially, at least) for two years! :D
Seriously, those people who hurt crocodilians are monsters. Especially those who go after the big crocodilians; that's simply genocide, but slowly. A healthy crocodilian grows; growth isn't controlled by a gene or anything like that; it's simply that a healthy crocodilian grows big and live long. Unlike humans, to whom being huge can be physically harmful (heart problems and such) and where small humans can be just as healthy as big humans; with Crocodilians; size is a purely good trait. A small crocodile is an unhealthy crocodile, and it does not live as long. The bigger you grow, the longer you live. By selecting against the best crocodilians; humanity condemns them all to a small gene pool, a shorter life, and eventual extinction.
Sure, the population in the Americas has gone up; but after you humans made a bottleneck, so you need to give it a few thousand years for the genetic diversity to get back to what it should be.
I Especially Hate those Chinese people who drained a swamp of 200 Chinese Alligators; when there are less than one thousand of them in the world (now, I guess it would be less than 800).
Also, this youtube commentator on a video about Chito and Pocho:
I'm as sympathetic as the next person about animals but that thing is a dinosaur that survived the ice-age and enjoys killing its prey and then dragging the bodies down and putting them under rocks and logs to rot for a few months and then when it's super bacteria laden eats the corpse. It's brain is the size of a walnut and it's bite will chomp a man in half with the force of a 1 ton steal beam falling on him would. No. Just No. No
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
As of today we've been a couple (officially, at least) for two years! :D
Yes, but you must dispel these scurrilous rumours that you and Prince Anonus are bastards born to non-royal parents; instead of legitimate heirs of royal kingdoms.
As Konungr of Rozburg, I am willing to recognize the sovereignty of your nations/kingdoms and open trade routes and possibly someday alliances; but the anti-royalists would take my recognition of your nations as a step towards acceptance of Democracy and other non-hat-based-authority if you were officially lowborn peasants instead of officially declared to be the royalty that you are. The anti-royalists would see it as hypocrisy; and they seek any chance to revolt; the soapy scumbags; some of them even want to make it legal to not wear hats!
Recognizing a illigetimately-born non-royal Prince and Princess as sovereigns of nations would be considered a betrayal of the Royalist ideals; and the Royalists would feel betrayed. In the end, if you want to have open trade routes, acknowledgement, and possible alliances with Rozburg; you must officially declare yourself and Anonus to be the legitimate royalty that you are.
"It is a matter of grave importance that Fairy tales should be respected.... Whosoever alters them to suit his own opinions, whatever they are, is guilty, to our thinking, of an act of presumption, and appropriates to himself what does not belong to him." -- Charles Dickens
As a friend, I wish Anonus and Avenue all happiness and joy in love.
As Konungr of Rozburg, I am sad to say that I cannot institute a new national annual holiday in honor of an authority not yet officially accepted by the royalists. A declaration of royalty must first be announced, in Rozburg, by one of your ambassadors. I know my people ate the last envoy you sent, but in all fairness, he came hatless, and, well, how do you recognise somebody without a hat? Please send a behatted envoy to announce your princessness in Rozburg. Only after such announces have been made in Rozburg can I legally declare the 26 of October a national holiday.us
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humans are so slow
Deep in the Costa Rican jungle, a fisherman named Chito discovered a
crocodile that had been shot in the eye by a cattle farmer and left for
dead. Chito was able to drag the massive reptile into his boat and
brought him to his home, where he stayed by his side for months, nursing
him back to health.
He named the croc Pocho. "I stayed by
Pocho's side while he was ill, sleeping next to him at night. I just
wanted him to feel that somebody loved him, that not all humans are
bad." said Chito, ""It meant a lot of sacrifice. I had to be there every
day. I love all animals -- especially ones that have suffered."
The
day finally came when Pocho was strong enough to go back into the wild.
Chito took him to a lake near his house and released him, but the
animal simply got back out of the water and followed him home.
"Then I
found out that when I called his name he would come over to me." says
Chito. The fisherman has been hesitant to tell his story, even though 20
years have passed since he first rescued Pocho.
Pocho is roughly
5.18 meters (17 feet) long. He and Chito play, wrestle and hug on a
daily basis. That bond, Chito said, took years to forge.
"After a
decade I started to work with him.", says Chito casually, "At first it
was slow, slow. I played with him a bit, slowly doing more."
Chito
has told his story now only to raise awareness of the cruelty that can
be done to animals, and the difference that affection and treating other
rightly can make.
"He's my friend, I don't want to treat him
like a slave or exploit him." said Chito, "I am happy because I rescued
him and he is happy with me because he has everything he needs."
Now brb raiding China and freeing my Chinese Alligator brethren.
which makes more sense, if you excuse the tabloidese
As of today we've been a couple (officially, at least) for two years! :D
Sure, the population in the Americas has gone up; but after you humans made a bottleneck, so you need to give it a few thousand years for the genetic diversity to get back to what it should be.
I Especially Hate those Chinese people who drained a swamp of 200 Chinese Alligators; when there are less than one thousand of them in the world (now, I guess it would be less than 800).
Also, this youtube commentator on a video about Chito and Pocho:
I'm as sympathetic as the next person about animals but that thing is a
dinosaur that survived the ice-age and enjoys killing its prey and then
dragging the bodies down and putting them under rocks and logs to rot
for a few months and then when it's super bacteria laden eats the
corpse. It's brain is the size of a walnut and it's bite will chomp a
man in half with the force of a 1 ton steal beam falling on him would.
No. Just No. No
personally i think they're awesome but if a crocodile was staring me in the face you bet i'd be scared
what i can't understand or tolerate is the killing of endangered species, or causing suffering to any animal, no matter how you feel about it
As Konungr of Rozburg, I am willing to recognize the sovereignty of your nations/kingdoms and open trade routes and possibly someday alliances; but the anti-royalists would take my recognition of your nations as a step towards acceptance of Democracy and other non-hat-based-authority if you were officially lowborn peasants instead of officially declared to be the royalty that you are. The anti-royalists would see it as hypocrisy; and they seek any chance to revolt; the soapy scumbags; some of them even want to make it legal to not wear hats!
Recognizing a illigetimately-born non-royal Prince and Princess as sovereigns of nations would be considered a betrayal of the Royalist ideals; and the Royalists would feel betrayed. In the end, if you want to have open trade routes, acknowledgement, and possible alliances with Rozburg; you must officially declare yourself and Anonus to be the legitimate royalty that you are.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
As Konungr of Rozburg, I am sad to say that I cannot institute a new national annual holiday in honor of an authority not yet officially accepted by the royalists. A declaration of royalty must first be announced, in Rozburg, by one of your ambassadors. I know my people ate the last envoy you sent, but in all fairness, he came hatless, and, well, how do you recognise somebody without a hat?
Please send a behatted envoy to announce your princessness in Rozburg. Only after such announces have been made in Rozburg can I legally declare the 26 of October a national holiday.us