Hype Talk

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The EMP Pop Conference is next weekend in Seattle. Now I'm not suggesting you all go out and buy hugely expensive plane tickets to Seattle - hold on, I am suggesting this because the EMP Pop Conference is GREBT. It is lots of clever people saying - mostly - clever things about pop, and some of them you might know from TV's The Interweb, including the two things I wish I was seeing most - maura talking about weight and indie, and Mike Daddino talking about muzak. I remember email conversations with these people about these topics and both of them had k-interesting things to say.*

The entire conference is about guilt and doubt in pop, though I dunno how much of it addresses the niggly nexus of "guilty pleasures" that we tend to negotiate here (though most of the negotiation SHOULD be taking place on the dancefloor).

(You still have 30 minutes to vote in the pop world cup by the way.)

*apols to M and M if I've got the wrong ends of their respective sticks here.

Comments

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i bet that you negotiate good on the dancefloor...

[ruudboy.livejournal.com]

EMP is grebt even when there isn't a conference on there y'know.

[nicolars.livejournal.com]

I wish I could go, but I'm too busy with work and I would be the dumbest person in the room.

[(Anonymous)]

Part of my essay is me recapping my old FT *Elevator Music* review! Only with added memoir-y bits and casual philosopher name-dropping!

--Mike D.