dance 07

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Hello poptimists, just noting that I have put some of my favourite house and techno tracks of the year up on my own lj should anyone feel like scooping them up. They're all brilliant obv.

The world turned upside down

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yesterday on the sex discussion the Lex said some interesting stuff about how acts like Lil Kim were "important and subversive" for reversing real-world expectations of predatory/dominant men and weak females.

This specific example got a bit of comment but what interested me was the old buzzword "subversive" - do you think that pop can still (if it ever did!) act as a subersive space in which social norms can be reversed or otherwise played with? And if not pop, how about more subcultural musical areas?

Video Advent Calendar - 5th Dec

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

After yesterday's horrendousness, here's something a little more wholesome. A slightly nervous JoJo does a cockle-warming medley for a random US TV special...

( Dec 5th )