It used to be the only way to advertise to the world that you were a person of refined taste, and therefore a suitable mating partner for other members of your highly-specific demographic with similar taste, was to alert people that you didn’t watch TV. Then, whoops, TV got too good for anyone to buy that lie anymore, and that whole thing sort of got pulled out from under our feet. Fortunately, pop music is still around for those of us jockeying for positioning in the crowded personal brand marketplace to exhibit disdain. More
