Post #806310 by MrFab on Sun, Nov 6, 2022 12:59 AM

“So going along with those elastic parameters, walking into a bar advertised as being a "Tiki Bar" and finding clown masks and space rockets everywhere should be OK?…A tiki bar without "tikis"???” No, it’s not ok! There’s still the issue of: if the new directions in tiki are good or bad. No question that stuff is lame. I was just pointing out that since the tiki aesthetic was not based on any actual traditions, but was largely an invention of post-war America, there has always been a degree of fluidity. Today’s “real” tiki is pretty different from the suit-and-tie wearing, dumpling-eating ‘50s Polynesian restaurant diner. They didn’t have tiki conventions, zines, radio shows, mug vendors, etc. That’s all modern, but the good kind of fluidity. I understand that surf music might not seem tiki to some, but that’s mostly what you’re going to hear at any tiki festival, so…