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

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...have been listening to Neil Young.

Does anyone have a more shameful confession?

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yay, I was right!

I don't think it's about communal experience so much as an orientation towards public dissemination. i.e. by the mere fact of being released, a record becomes 'pop' (and hence even if a song is still in the mind of its writer it is always already pop) but some records choose to close this openness down, while others celebrate it. Just as no record could appeal to everyone (because of social divisions marked out in cultural forms, and the dialectic whereby popularity provokes little local antagonisms into forming), there can be no such thing as 'pure' pop (horrible horrible indie expression); and yes, everyone is indie because they pick and choose -- they are not lazy in dubdobdee's sense. (Except possibly people who listen to local commercial radio.) Best 'pop' radio station = Smash Hits on digital, but I am totally indie when I listen to it!