2006-07-28

Current Music: CIARA, YOU LOSERS

i leave you alone for one day and look what travesties ensue

Poptimists. We need to talk.

You really let me down yesterday.

Ciara’s ‘Goodies’ is a poptimist touchstone, and Miss Ciara Princess Harris a poptimist heroine on a par with Kelis, Britney, Xtina, Aaliyah, Rachel and Kylie. Yet you did not give her the respect she deserved as the first lady of crunk’n’b. To add insult to injury, she appears to have been beaten by both past-it Chemical Brothers and dreadful indie Killers.

I’m disappointed in you.

Explain yourselves please.

the BADCRAP BARFS more like

i. ok so out of "scholarly diligence" i watched the repeated omnibus about syd b last night
ii. and confirmed that barrett-era PF = post-barrett PF = post-PF barrett = ALL AS USELESS AS ONE ANOTHER
iii. except then i slept and dremt ALL NIGHT dreams soundtracked by barrett songs >:(

so this raises the deep poptimist question: is a tune that sticks in yr mind GOOD even if you HATE IT -- isn't the craft of melody a kind of nerve-glue to attach you to a ahem "work" so that yr feelings of some particular moment get externalised into it and there replayed?

anyway i am quite happy to grant that SB had an unusual facility with oddly shaped song-flow, burden and refrain* -- except i think i would also argue that the collective direction of the outfit he founded was increasingly at odds with this gift (cf also curtis and JD-NO)... they were fashioning a monumental high-volume drone juggernaut; his gift was quirkily quaint'Nquiet little broke-back ditties -- and that the split (as with joy div) was inevitable on musical grounds; the psycho-chemical context a pretext for sentimentalists and clueless romantics

ps the documentary itself was incredibly lame and lazy in almost every regard

POPFITES! 13, 14, 15 and 16!

Because I was too busy to do a POPFITE yesterday you get FOUR clashes today, to finish off the first round. In previous fites JARVIS won a convincing victory over CHRIS LOWE, and MICK JAGGER won out against HANK WILLIAMS.

As for today's fights, words cannot do them justice (i.e. I am starving and need to upload this and go get a sammich).

( Popfite Four-Way Throwdown! )

TICK POWER!

it is not fun unless you WORK FOR IT = INDIE

the pop defn of pop involves a basic passive laziness = it comes to you, you don't have to HUNT for it

drugs, drinking-till-unconscious, all-night-clubbing = THESE ARE ALL PURITAN-ETHIC WORK-for-yr-fun

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month in pop

The Month In Pop: July

By the time we've recovered from our POPTIMISM* hangovers and Monday has rolled around, it'll be almost August! What delights have your ears heard this month o LJers?

[Poll #780171]

*TOMORROW @ SLAUGHTERED LAMB IN CLERKENWELL, FREE ENTRY INNIT

happy poptimism everyone

i will be in shropshire clearing junk out of my dad's house w.doctrah becky