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poptimistsIf you haven't voted in the Poptimists demographic survey, please do!
It makes interesting reading (FOR ME!) so far - we have a couple of years clearly in front as far as pan-generational excitement goes, and the agegroup distribution patterns are intriguing too - more detail on all this when I've got more votes in. The agegroup distribution is shaping up as expected - the majority of Poptimists (about 2/3) are in their twenties, with a handful under and a chunk over.
Something which does interest me in terms of the results - very few votes so far* for the early 80s, 80-83, the years of New Pop. New Pop has been repeatedly invoked - often by people who wouldn't consider themselves 'poptimists' I grant you - as a kind of pop ideal. Certainly as far as this - hugely unrepresentative - community goes, though, the number of people who remember it as exciting is dwindling. To recall New Pop as a critical moment you need to be 35 or more, I'd guess - even to remember it clearly as a pop moment you'd need to have hit 30. At some point New Pop is going to shift from being a beacon of inspiration to a stick to beat the kids with - perhaps that point has already passed...?
*(it's v.unscientific of me to mention this as there may now be a spike).
It makes interesting reading (FOR ME!) so far - we have a couple of years clearly in front as far as pan-generational excitement goes, and the agegroup distribution patterns are intriguing too - more detail on all this when I've got more votes in. The agegroup distribution is shaping up as expected - the majority of Poptimists (about 2/3) are in their twenties, with a handful under and a chunk over.
Something which does interest me in terms of the results - very few votes so far* for the early 80s, 80-83, the years of New Pop. New Pop has been repeatedly invoked - often by people who wouldn't consider themselves 'poptimists' I grant you - as a kind of pop ideal. Certainly as far as this - hugely unrepresentative - community goes, though, the number of people who remember it as exciting is dwindling. To recall New Pop as a critical moment you need to be 35 or more, I'd guess - even to remember it clearly as a pop moment you'd need to have hit 30. At some point New Pop is going to shift from being a beacon of inspiration to a stick to beat the kids with - perhaps that point has already passed...?
*(it's v.unscientific of me to mention this as there may now be a spike).
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Date: 2006-06-07 03:55 pm (UTC)2. I tentatively considered mentioning 1981 as one of my 3 years, but then I remembered being very annoyed by a lot of what actually got in the charts that year. For every 1x "Tainted Love", "Favourite Shirts" "Prince Charming" or "Don't You Want Me" (not to mention all the great pop that wasn't yet ready to cross over from Peel-land: Pigbag, Grandmaster Flash, Altered Images) there seemed to be 10x "Birdie Song", Shakey, Julio Iglesias and Stars on 45-type medley records. (Checking everyhit.com I find this to be Not Actually True, but that's how it felt at the time.)