More Ke$ha convo, plus a question

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Over on my lj I've provided six more links to good Ke$ha commentary, including this epic tumblr post by Jonathan Bogart. Plus, in my comment thread, jauntyalan asks:

wow - why isn't there stuff like that big post on poptimists? what happened in my year off it? :-(

A quick but very incomplete answer might be: a lot of the action moved to tumblr, which allows easy reposting and excerpting of other people's posts plus a way of tracking every single repost/excerpt of an original post and its derivatives and any comment on those posts that anyone makes anywhere on tumblr, so you can follow the convo all through a bunch of different users, some of whom may previously have been unknown to one another. Also, apparently the r&b discussion over on ILM has vastly improved, and Lex has jumped there, leaving poptimists without the participant who is most engaged with contemporary music. And the Singles Jukebox has become another crucial node of good conversation, since it's now the best review site I've ever seen on the Web (of course I generally am bored silly by review sites, so never look at them, so that's not an informed opinion, though I'll bet it's right). The Jukebox has comment threads, which often contain writing that's as smart as the reviews.

Also, fewer songs hit the British charts these days, and they're generally not as good as the songs that were charting a few years ago, so this has put a damper on Another Decade In Pop. But none of this really explains why there's less substantive commentary on the music here than in days past, and fewer substantive responses to the substantive commentary (not that getting substantive response wasn't always a problem).

35 years young

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