Would you prefer Tiki as 'mainstream' or 'underground'? - General Tiki

TW Trader Woody Member Tiki Manor, Forest of Bowland,UK Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 2301	TW Trader Woody Posted posted on Fri, Jan 28, 2005 10:16 AM On 2005-01-24 07:31, HelzTiki wrote: So, what’s my point? I guess it is just that I love Tiki and what it brought to my life, and if that enjoyment is inferior because I’m new to the whole thing and still exploring and learning or I’m too mainstream, then so be it. You make some very good points and I think it's important to define what we mean by 'mainstream'. To me Tiki going 'mainstream' is more to do with being commercialised than becoming popular with 'newbies'. I hate seeing shitty plastic Tiki crap made purely to make a few $$$ for some bandwagon-jumpers. I realise that perhaps these are the 'Tiki treasures' of tomorrow, but I hope not because we're currently living today, and most of these things suck. (Certainly there are exceptions - those 'Dollar Tree' Tiki's put a nice spin on the old Coco Joe type statuettes). Similarly, seeing Tiki motifs on clothing by companies who previously had no connection to Tiki is something that makes me shake my head. That type of co-opting of Tiki culture for the sake of fashion & $$$ is what annoys me, not new people getting into it. Trader Woody

On 2005-01-24 07:31, HelzTiki wrote:
So, what’s my point? I guess it is just that I love Tiki and what it brought to my life, and if that enjoyment is inferior because I’m new to the whole thing and still exploring and learning or I’m too mainstream, then so be it.

You make some very good points and I think it's important to define what we mean by 'mainstream'. To me Tiki going 'mainstream' is more to do with being commercialised than becoming popular with 'newbies'.

I hate seeing shitty plastic Tiki crap made purely to make a few $$$ for some bandwagon-jumpers. I realise that perhaps these are the 'Tiki treasures' of tomorrow, but I hope not because we're currently living today, and most of these things suck. (Certainly there are exceptions - those 'Dollar Tree' Tiki's put a nice spin on the old Coco Joe type statuettes).

Similarly, seeing Tiki motifs on clothing by companies who previously had no connection to Tiki is something that makes me shake my head. That type of co-opting of Tiki culture for the sake of fashion & $$$ is what annoys me, not new people getting into it.

Trader Woody

Post #137946 by Trader Woody on Fri, Jan 28, 2005 10:16 AM