Drowing in a sea of pop

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

This discussion got kind of lost in the last chart poll comments - I think it deserves its own thread.

Do you feel overwhelmed by the vast swathes of music out there? How do you keep up? Or do you just listen to the same old stuff 90% of the time?

Where do you usually hear new music? Radio, telly, blogs, random interwebs... or poptimists? If we don't know about something, is it the record label's fault for not promoting the artist?

Also - have you ever experienced music 'fatigue' (as mcarralata mentions in that other thread)?

Another cog in the murder machine

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

As some of you will know I work for a market research company. Here's an email I sent round to the staff yesterday:

"So an easy pair of questions to divert you for half a minute:

Name a currently active band or recording artist a British teenager might know about.

Name a currently active sportsperson a British teenager might know about.

Simple as that! Name more than one if you like."

I have snipped the 'why' since you, The Kids, are not to be trusted with the secrets of The Man.

But I have now compiled the answers I got. What do you think people said (and what SHOULD they have said?)

ANSWERS! (Gaps to be filled in by commenters)

1. Winehouse
2. Arctics
3. Lily A
4. My Chemical Romance
5. Rihanna
6. --
7. Gurls Aloud
8. --
9. The Hoosiers
10. Leona L.

SPORTS ANSWERS!

1. Lewis H.
2. BeckXoR
3. Wayne R.
4. Cristiano Ronaldo
5. Wilco
6. Love Rat Ashley Cole
7. Brave Paula
8. Andy Murray
9. --
10. Steven Gerrard

Not exactly pop, but possibly poptimist-relevant

[credoimprobus]

Not least because this would probably not exist without Britney in the Black Lodge, which got me thinking (under the influence of too much looped play) about Get Naked (I Got a Plan) in terms of "bad acid trip"/"down the rabbit hole"/"journey into the underworld". Once I was that far, it was only a hop, skip and leap to "ooh, new mix project!", really!

So in case of interest: see here for an experimental, heavily conceptual 1-hour exploration of Get Naked's power to terrify. Be warned that about the only pop on this mix is...well, Get Naked, but if you can deal with that (and a little too much dubstep ahem), feel free to check it out.