Post #609813 by emspace on Tue, Oct 11, 2011 10:20 AM

Good, thought-provoking stuff here, and komohana I'm glad the sun is shining - it ought to be, you're almost a month into Spring! :)

But consider this y'all: if I decided (and let's face it, SOMEONE had to decide punk could be Tiki, right? It wasn't some mass wave that occurred all at once; someone had to suggest it) that Western Swing, which I love, is Tiki, would it then be Tiki? Because I SAID SO? Or if Western Swing is somehow "hip" enough to be Tiki, how about just good old honky-tonk country? After all - I said so.

If I said that collecting Kewpie dolls or fossil trilobites, or cart racing or doing the fecking dishes were all Tiki - would that MAKE them Tiki?

If you still don't get my point then I'll just bow out on the subject, but please bear in mind: I am NOT saying you're not allowed to like a certain kind of music; just that if you call it Tiki just because you like Tiki AND that kind of music, then what you're doing is exercising egotism by trying to write yourself into the Tiki story by ALTERING IT TO FIT YOUR PERSONAL THING. And that, IMO has a hell of a lot more to do with reality-TV culture than Tiki culture.