The best way to handle know-it-all jerkoffs who love lecturing women on how John Lennon was a tortured musical genius isn’t to just be like “whatever the Beatles suck,” it’s to comment that you really admire the Beatles as the first internationally successful boy band and to say it’s too bad men were unable to understand or appreciate their musical talent before young teenage girls did, and then accuse men of bandwagoning, which will then make the aforementioned jerkoff permanently shortcircuit.
@blunderpuff how dare you hide this perfect commentary in the tags:
#i mean this truly and literally and historically accurately: the music industry was literally transformed by teenage girls’ beatlemania#the huge demand for more music from the beatles spurred the record labels to figure out how to fit more songs on a 45#(and once you could fit about 5 to 8 songs on a 45… the Beach Boys went and INVENTED the concept of A CONCEPT ALBUM)#(the first concept album in the world is The Beach Boys’ ‘Pet Sounds’. The second concept album is The Beatles’ 'Sgt Pepper’)#after the concept album hit the scene… THAT’s how people wanted their music. not just a random smattering of unrelated singles#but an album that had a throughline#and yeah the Beatles didn’t invent the concept album (Brian Wilson ftw!!) but the point is:#teenage girls love things so deeply and ecstatically that entire industries crop up to capitalize on those obsessions#like… teenage girls of every era can be very steadily counted on to identify and immortalize pop culture#men ain’t shit lmao they just take the pop culture from the girls and then kick the girls out of it and say#'we appreciate it on a deeper level’ bitch lmao you don’t even
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