Signs Denoting Death Of Pop listed by blog

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I have too much work on to be reading Popjustice, but...

What else is going down the sh1tter before/after its time? After yesterday's 1994 discussion I nominate: decent boybands (eg East 17, 911, NSYNC).

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[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I miss the craptacular Oxford Channel music video hour between four and five in the afternoon and way into the night. Now they only do it in the evenings and it stops at midnight- rubbish. :( Many a long hour did I spend attempting to work out how my parents' VCR worked well enough to record the video to 'Seven Ways' by Abs.

Also missed: music magazines other than Rock Sound being readable. There's a sentence I never thought I'd write but it's true, it being the only one left with remotely sane journalists with actual interest in music at the helm. If it'd only sort out a pop review section it would basically be perfect. :/ I mean, when you look at the demise of music media it's not just poptimists that are starved of anything remotely good but also rockists, who have to endure the ignomy of Kerrang!'s subjection to the Emap treatment in the same way Smash Hits was for those of a pop inclination and indieists, who have to look at NME and realise it is them.

The iPod generation is basically ruining everything, to my mind. Then again, I'm succumbing to increasing delusions that I'm the last sane voice left pleading for the use of CD players in this difficult time so everything I say should probably be immediately discarded.

I miss The Face. :( :( :(

The question is, how much of this was caused by the Spice Girls and how much by Busted?

[poptasticuk.livejournal.com]

Oh, we have that channel. We might still do, I actually haven't even looked at it since the day we moved in. Ooh, just checked and it's still there. When is the music on exactly? It's football now :(

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

It starts about ten at night, I think- sometimes later sometimes earlier, basically, when the programmes end and then goes on until Midnight. It's brilliantly shit, although the totally awesome advert for some computer shop on the Cowley Road will no longer be there. :(

[poptasticuk.livejournal.com]

They're just playing Passion FM (another Oxford thing I'd totally forgotten about) at the moment and it's some rap song involving Jay-Z. Very disappointing! The only time I've ever seen a music video on there it was Blue's One Love, and this was only last year so I guess it shows some promise for out-dated pop music.