a fight for the soul of poptimism...

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...has broken out on this thread. Since I am now using 'poptimist' with scare quotes, it may be possible that I am about to publicly 'break' with 'the' 'movement'. :-)

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But it's difficult to treat it the same as the Xtina album because the latter is/has a better overall product i.e. terrific voice, huge production values. Paris could have the latter but not the former (and I might prefer PH album production if it's more 'modern' or 'futuristic' than Xtina's retro bluster. But she could still be as arresting (a more appropriate word than 'convincing' perhaps) as Xtina. Is she though? On occasion, almost!