This is what you get when I forget to YSI MP3s

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"what made BUSTED!! so fun was the mix of loving them, laughing at them, laughing with them, fearing for them, getting frustrated with them, cheering them on, trying to work out which way they were pulling and finally weeping as Charlie went to the bad side"

(this was me on ILM)

What's more annoying:

- ppl thinking you like pop 'ironically' i.e. only pretend to like it.
- ppl thinking you like pop because of a weird fascination with the 'innocent' mindset of the yng teenage GURL.

My liking (maybe yours!) of pop can be both hugely unsophisticated (OMG MUST DANCE NOW) but also relatively sophisticated/knowing, see Busted thing above, and YES thus contains an element of 'irony' too - IS THAT SO WRONG!

& of course the straw teengurl responds in all these ways too and more no doubt.

PS today I might buy AN paid account so I can do polls on LJ. ph34r poptimists.

POLL MADNESS aka The History Of Pop part 1, aka It's Limahl's World We Just Live In It

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The first of a proposed series of POPTIMISTS polls which will determine by poll SCIENCE which are the best pop songs ever, the definition of 'pop songs' of course being 'have appeared on a Now album'. Choose as MANY as you like and the debate can RAGE in the comments box, warning your choices are public knowledge, and prepare yrselves for Now II next week.

( Enormous POLL )

More like 'The Old-Fashioned', do you see

[zenith.livejournal.com]

The worst PopJustice post ever. Yes, "the views expressed here are not necessarily those of PopJustice", but still - on this evidence The Modern would appear to make The Kaiser Chiefs look like... like... like something other than vile snobby Daily Mail readers. Let's ban hip hop and make the "chavs" read books and get rid of reality TV and do 101 of the same old grumpy old git things that will bring 'integrity' back to pop music, yes, WELL DONE. I don't think this nonsense needed a platform, did it?

A real shame, because I've been enjoying PJ lately despite dodgy things like Eurythmics competitions (the preview of the new Girls Aloud made it sound mouth-wateringly good), but this seems to confirm all those allegations about the site's dubious blind spots...

listen to music created by machines / silicon memories remembering the key

[kill-yr-idols.livejournal.com]

Mi-Sex - "Computer Games" - I posted the video to this a while back, but here's the mp3.

The Body Electric - "Pulsing" - goofy electro/synthpop admirably blind to the fact that enthusiastic singing the praises of technology inna Kraftwerk style when yr from a small NZ town tends to come across rather, erm, quaint. hung around the charts for ages back in '82. rhythmic feedback noise of electrodes . . . ELECTRODES!


(& if you haven't checked out the Where is the amor for HA-ASH? Mexican cowgirl pop... thread on ILM, there's a handful of YSIs - Big & Rich do TaTu!)