The History Of Pop Part 46 aka You and me baby aint nothin but mammals

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

In a hard-fought and popular Now 45 poll, Kelis beat Daphne and Celeste by two votes. In Now 46, Britney is back, Kylie is back, Aaliyah is back, and so is Billie (now with surname), but the big debut - in future direction if not in ticks - is Coldplay.


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Re: Saint Kara

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Haha the term "anonymous confessional" kinda applies to something v insightful Tim F originally said about Tori Amos: she always got pegged as a confessional artist because of her style, the occasional extremely confessional lyric, and the fact that her albums were presumably preceded by explanatory press releases saying "hello this is what the album is being confessional about". Yet this held true even when no one could even start to parse the actual words she sung! So thus Tori's appeal was not so much straight-up confessionalism but the difficulty in piecing together a confession. If we apply that to this, we end up with the appeal of Branch being the desire to confess, in a non-specific way, even when there is nothing particularly to confess => perfect for the teenagers.

I think one reason I see Lohan's music as dark, darker than Lavigne certainly (even if Lavigne is responsible for the ballads which move me more), is because of her very public car-crash of a career. All, it is made clear to us via tabloid pages, is Not Well with Lohan (and also Simpson Jr?). Whereas Lavigne seems pretty happy right now.

Re: Saint Kara

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I am reading this interesting thread cos it's coming to my inbox, but I bet nobody else is - maybe it could be nomadised and reformulated into a new post...?

Re: Saint Kara

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

That might be a good idea though I think Frank should be the one to reformat it as he is the one doing the main arguing and I am leading and going "um" a lot.

I have 0 idea what post this is even landing in.