View from the other side

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(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

[koganbot]

Also, "big pretty voices" doesn't really encompass what's going on with Kelly Clarkson and Mariah Carey. And I can't see how a move from Britney and Backstreet Boys to Pink and Avril is "simply a spinoff of the backlash against feminism and any culture perceived as having a kind of gay sensibility that isn’t campy and schticky, and thus safe."

But generalizations are hard, so I don't knock him for trying. And I also didn't read the article that this interview spun off from, so he might deal with some of the subtleties in ways that don't come across in the q&a.