InsaneJournal

Current mood:	embarrassed
Current music:	Weve Got A Big Mess On Our Hands-The Academy Is...-Santi
Entry tags:	fannish.bandom, fannish.pop

I'm not like them, I won't buy in
I'm reading bandslash these days. I am so ashamed of myself.

A little more than a year ago I was discovering popslash. I was distressed and ashamed but also sort of exhilarated. There was something intoxicating about it all. So much fic, so much canon. Such sparkly sparkly boys.

Now I find myself falling into another shameful fandom. It makes me feel dirty and slightly gleeful. With this particular fandom though the shame is far more than the glee. I either dislike the music (Panic! at the Disco, much of My Chemical Romance) or I am ambivalent to it (Fall Out Boy, some MCR). The only group I reall like is The Academy Is which is a far rarer bandslash band than the others.

I realize that to many of you bandslash and popslash seem not at all different but to me they are. For one thing my foray into bandom demonstrates that pop is not a fluke. That, in fact, have zero cool-hip-indie music cred. Which, okay, doesn't bother me that much. I listen to Fergie and JC, I'm pretty over the need to be cool musically (plus, I also listen to, like, The Magnetic Fields and Kimya Dawson).

For another thing, it is one thing to like music that was mainly beloved by middle schoolers when the middle schoolers in question were of the same generation as you. It's another to like the music that the angsty middle schoolers at the school you worked at were in love. Like, if I were to go to an MCR concert I would DEFINITELY run into some of my kids from last year. One of them was on the freaking MCR street team.

So, yes. Shame. But also, um, I totally love the fic for all the bands and I totally love The Academy Is like woah.