I was talking to my best friend one night, and we were talking about all of the things that we liked, and disliked. The subjects were endless. What band we liked, book series, you name it. Well, she was mentioning a lot of unpopular things that I had never heard of. But me, being the lame ass that I am, was only talking about stuff that everyone already knows about. Mostly because I make no effort to find new and cool things, I just go with the flow.
We got on the subject of books. Now, I’m not a huge fictional book fan… I like a lot of educational things. Not so much a fan of the Harry Potter, Twilight stuff. However, I have obviously read those things, as I heard a lot about them and thought I would check them out. Twilight is okay, I’m by no means a Twihard. It might have been better if the writer wasn’t so horrible. I found countless errors in her grammar.
But, anyway. I asked my friend why she has never seen the movies, and she said she wasn’t into Twilight anymore. Now, she was the one who got me into Twilight. So, I was confused, and I asked he what she meant! She said that she didn’t like it anymore because it was popular… Um… What? I was like, “You don’t like it because it’s popular?” – she said yeah, she hates things once they get popular.
Then it hit me, I’ve heard this so many times from friends and whatnot. They REALLYYYYYYY LOVE a band and they will talk about it all the time… Of course it’s unpopular, and no one knows what they’re talking about. But, finally that band gets on the radio, and people start talking about it AND you finally have someone to talk with about your fav band, and now you hate it? Now, I understand that sometimes you can get annoyed with stuff, because it becomes redundant. But, you still like it either way.
Now, some think this is restricted to Indie/Emo/Scene kids. But, it’s not. It’s everyone doing this, I swear. So, this leaves my question. How can you not like something after LOVING IT for years, just because it becomes famous? Wouldn’t you be happy that your favorite band/book/artist has gotten big? Wouldn’t you think it was cool to have been some of their first fans?
I know it’s cool to be all original, but I still don’t get it. You know? It’s okay to be over something. Like, if you loved Twilight, but are now over it. That’s cool. Hating it? That’s weird.
Someone enlighten be as to why people are so weird. Please?