"It's impossible to be Actual* Pop and Actual Rock simultaneously!"

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

the lex just claimed this: is he korrekt?

my response = it is NOT COMMON CERTAINLY but it has happened, like a kind of harmonic convergence within recorded music after -- with things after never the same as before

for example:
i. stones
ii. sabbaf
iii. slade/pistols (=essentially the same thing anyway)
iv. pulp fiction inspired resurgence of SURF sound

obv plenty of bands have been one then the other but not simultaneously, and some have even switched back again

*note use of ACTUAL here must not be employed in any kind of essentialist slipperiness, bcz that kind of behaviour is INDIE

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

the term "handbag house" is an "against" phrase surely?

cf also freakytigger's "None of that hardcore ecstasy with LSI on it mate" motto

but it's true neither of these against ideas are wielded ON THE DANCEFLOOR

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I think by defn all genres have components of "against" in that if you have got to the stage of stating your preference for Genre X there is the unspoken clause of "as opposed to Genres Y and Z". But whereas with a lot of the genres/scenes referenced there's often this feeling of the act of consumption being in itself a stance against Other Stuff, dance rarely has that.