Are Ideas Enough?

[steviespitfire.livejournal.com]

A thread that's currently languishing over at ILC[omics], could work here too.

Is just having ideas enough in pop? The answer is probably, "No", but it ties in with the Rachel vs Sugababes thing on the other thread: I think Rachel has more/better ideas than the Sugababes, but I'm not sure it's the reason I prefer the former. Similarly, for Lex, who prefers the latter, is this prefence based on the fact that the ideas on th RS don't hang together or make it muddled?

Thing is: "hipsters" into pop tend to go mad for the IDEAS; does the ordinary public, dya think?

Comments

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i don't think it's clear what is meany by ideas in this context - well not to me :-(

[steviespitfire.livejournal.com]

I suppose I mean like when Mr Pop Magician stands up and goes, "For my next trick I will speed up the vocals on this track" or "For my next trick, I'll play this guitar backwards" or "For my next trick, I'll be nicking my beats from some bhangra that I heard the other day."

That sort of thing. :)