ext_380264 ([identity profile] byebyepride.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] poptimists2006-08-07 02:53 pm

Pop has been SO BAD recently, that I...

...have been listening to Neil Young.

Does anyone have a more shameful confession?

[identity profile] dubdobdee.livejournal.com 2006-08-07 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
to be fair, i think this has evolved along with the emo-isation of indie

[livejournal.com profile] thebopkids esp.will (rightly) note existence of a actual real live danbcing till dawn community who believed that what constituted indie in (say) 1984 was the same as and would again soon be pop's idea of pop

and [livejournal.com profile] koganbot will (rightly) note that modern pop exists because of the eruption into the mainstream of of all manner of small-label R&B (50s defn)