Sorry about the necro-post, but for this post it seems the only appropriate way to do it.
Five years ago, this post was made:
Street Avenger said:
Katie[sic] Perry [...] Five years from now, no one will even remember her.
At the time I remember thinking, I bet that isn't true. So I set a recurring reminder to go off on my phone each year so I could see how things were progressing. If you're interested in seeing those yearly updates, I edited them into an old post each year
here |(starts about halfway down the post after the quoted post).
As a side note, before anyone says "oh man, you sad person, you've remained obsessed with this for five years", let me just remind you that I set a reminder on my phone and then addressed it when I had a spare ten minutes. Is there anything you've spent ten minutes a year on that you'd consider yourself obsessed with?
Joking aside, it was a massively wrong prediction. It's not just that people still know who she is - she's still
huge, is all over TV and magazines, has a new album out and is headed out on another sellout world tour shortly. But I don't think this is really very surprising, is it? The poster didn't like the music, and assumed this would translate into a lack of longevity for that music. But of course it doesn't, because the key thing the poster missed is that his individual music taste is not indicative of worldwide trends. Different people like different music and you shouldn't think of the music you like as being objectively "good" while considering other music objectively "bad". This ought to be obvious in a forum full of guitarists who all have different preferences for guitars, pickups, amps, woods, plecturms, ad infinitum. Why shouldn't "if it sounds good, it is good" be true of recorded music too?