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

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Maybe the Mavericks thing is based on THEIR ONE SONG's endurance on mainstream radio, karaoke, that weird line-dancing trend here in the early 00s...hmm, not enough to explain it really.

I mean they are clearly more popular in the States than in the UK. Maybe he was thinking of someone else?

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Maybe he meant the Scissor Sisters. I always get them confused with the Mavericks.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

maybe he means the automatics -- i heard a song by them about an elephant coming over the hill (or something) -- it was ok but i don't want to hear it again