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

[abby-mcdonald.livejournal.com]

"This 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. "

This bit I just can't comprehend. The end of the Choiron era was surely more to do with demographics shifting to angstier nu-metal (at the time) etc than anything like this! At the very least, saying 'simply' shuts down a whole line of interesting debate and kinda undermines his viewpoint for me.