View from the other side

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

(re-posted from byebyepride, apols if you see this twice!)

Interview with Sasha Frere-Jones on the New Yorker site. Interesting to see what an outsider makes of the British pop scene at the moment, but I'm not sure he's got it all right -- what do you reckon? The bum notes for me were struck with the supposed British love for the Mavericks (really?); the suggestion that British bands dress better than Americans (really?); and overlooking the small fact that the Rachel Stevens album flunked out (don't believe everything Mr PJ tells you!).

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I think he overstates the popularity of grime, to say the least, it stalled 2/3 years ago now (tho I don't doubt there's lots of good stuff coming out each month, but there's always been lots of good stuff coming out of UK hip-hop every month).

He seems generally quite positive about the UK scene, which isn't something I see that often (outside the McNicholas party line anyway).