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Mr PJ, regarding '1973' by James Blunt-
It contains all the best bits of a great pop song: wistfulness, nostalgia and references to dancing, music making the people come together and happier times, all with a very slight sense of emo clinginess and possible 'you really have to stop phoning me now' tendencies.
Now I know what you're all thinking, 'what the fvck are you posting that for?' and things but I think it's a jolly good description of one of my favourite musical genres: COMFORT POP. I'm not sure about you, Poptimists but it seems like a substantial part of the music-buying public is also after comfort pop at the minute (and indeed always) and I think it is worth a punt at a discussion.
I actually like '1973' quite a lot and not just because it has the same beat as 'Rock The Casbah' and appears to imply that Mr Blunt has discovered time travel but due to a general (irrational?) cuddly response to it. It's got a very warm feel to it that, which gives me a bit of the same feeling as, say, 'I Found U' by Axwell; something comforting and warm and fuzzy and generally hot chocolate-y about the whole business, whilst maintaining a sort of poppy level of danceability to some degree. A little like 'Heartbeat' by Annie (and indeed 'Heartbeats' by ver Knife) and millions of other songs that aim for the warm and fuzzies and yet don't abandon (or indeed fully embrace) being played in An Disco. Kylie is, of course, queen of this sort of business.
Whilst I'm admitting to liking a James Blunt song, I might as well throw out that my favourite comfort pop song recently was Just Dance by Lady GaGa -nominally a big stupid party song but actually all about being hopelessly drunk and needing the reassurance that it's all ok. Which is sort of super-sweet.
Obviously I also like terrifying noises, million-bpm boshfests and weird clicky things and Electrik Red and there's a markable difference between comfort pop and comfort rock but what think ye, Poptimists, is 'comfort pop' not so much a deliberate and definite genre as something that's an irrational emotional response to things that entirely personal or is it something more concrete? Is it, in fact, a significant part of what pop music is?
Mr PJ, regarding '1973' by James Blunt-
It contains all the best bits of a great pop song: wistfulness, nostalgia and references to dancing, music making the people come together and happier times, all with a very slight sense of emo clinginess and possible 'you really have to stop phoning me now' tendencies.
Now I know what you're all thinking, 'what the fvck are you posting that for?' and things but I think it's a jolly good description of one of my favourite musical genres: COMFORT POP. I'm not sure about you, Poptimists but it seems like a substantial part of the music-buying public is also after comfort pop at the minute (and indeed always) and I think it is worth a punt at a discussion.
I actually like '1973' quite a lot and not just because it has the same beat as 'Rock The Casbah' and appears to imply that Mr Blunt has discovered time travel but due to a general (irrational?) cuddly response to it. It's got a very warm feel to it that, which gives me a bit of the same feeling as, say, 'I Found U' by Axwell; something comforting and warm and fuzzy and generally hot chocolate-y about the whole business, whilst maintaining a sort of poppy level of danceability to some degree. A little like 'Heartbeat' by Annie (and indeed 'Heartbeats' by ver Knife) and millions of other songs that aim for the warm and fuzzies and yet don't abandon (or indeed fully embrace) being played in An Disco. Kylie is, of course, queen of this sort of business.
Whilst I'm admitting to liking a James Blunt song, I might as well throw out that my favourite comfort pop song recently was Just Dance by Lady GaGa -nominally a big stupid party song but actually all about being hopelessly drunk and needing the reassurance that it's all ok. Which is sort of super-sweet.
Obviously I also like terrifying noises, million-bpm boshfests and weird clicky things and Electrik Red and there's a markable difference between comfort pop and comfort rock but what think ye, Poptimists, is 'comfort pop' not so much a deliberate and definite genre as something that's an irrational emotional response to things that entirely personal or is it something more concrete? Is it, in fact, a significant part of what pop music is?
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