Post #164972 by La Tiki-ette on Fri, Jun 10, 2005 11:39 AM

True tiki? I love collecting Tiki and I love Lyman and Denny records but it is an aesthetic appeal. I love all kinds of other music, as well. I know many of you are heavy tikiphiles but we should remember that this is all a 20th century reaction to a war torn world. It was and is about fun and feeling exotic and stress free; about pretending that life can always be a party. For those of you that are more in to Polynesian culture than it would make even less sense because almost everything here is a distortion of that, as well.

So what I am saying is that (and I don’t want to be unpopular) this is a hard world with hard times and as much as I am a fanatic about all things Tiki I know what place it has. So to debate how Jimmy Buffett adversely affected an aesthetic movement totally motivated by consumerism, indulgence and escapism seems extremely odd.