Who needs Pink Floyd, Dire Straits, they're not our music, they're out of date

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Jaysis I'm ruined.

The pop quiz was somewhat of a triumph - £330 in the kitty for charity, pretty good result, bigger things expected of the auction on Friday tho. Nobody got the Bradford fire question; nobody got Chernenko; I think one team got Chumbawamba; nobody got I'd Rather Jack; almost nobody got ABBA; EVERYBODY got Busted, hurrah.

Does anyone want more bits and pieces questions?

Here is a question that's been floating around my brain a bit: is pop music a good medium for self-expression? When I think of records which have some kind of confessional or soul-baring component to them I tend to be thinking of records I think are a BIG BAG OF SH1TE. "Self-expression" isn't exactly the right words here, maybe with conversation I can work towards a better way of phrasing this...

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[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

I agree -- isn't the most interesting thing about westlife the extent to which there is no self-expression. And who would want it? Even the tweenage fans aren't buying into the soul of the performer, they WANT a bland screen on which to project their fantasies. Forgetting this was of course Charlie Busted's mistake, when he wanted to get 'real' (and obviously emotional). Actually, the trouble with 'self-expression' is that it conjures up either 'emotional sincerity' or 'innate creativity'. But surely Axl Rose is expressing fear and confusion and anger and hurt and rejection and desire in 'Welcome To The Jungle' -- which is probably a more 'expressive' song than 'Sweet Child Of Mine'. And even a song which says basically 'I'm a horny rockstar and I want to fuck chicks' is expressing something.