The "perfect pop" Archies thing comes partly from talking to Kate St Claire. I think reading your first post that you're right though - two different things, one of which serves as a possible role model for the other. So when I say the Archies "get this tag a lot", the taggers I would be talking about would be people with an interest in making (or celebrating) "perfect pop". The people behind the Archies had an interest in making a record that sold a lot in whatever style was needed to do the job.
David Smay's essay on them in Bubblegum Music Is The Naked Truth captures a certain critical mood:
"They had one job and one job only: create the absolutely irresistible pop song. Again and again and again. Together the Archies isolated the genetic strand of the perfect pop hit and replicated it like a honey-dipped virus."
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The "perfect pop" Archies thing comes partly from talking to Kate St Claire. I think reading your first post that you're right though - two different things, one of which serves as a possible role model for the other. So when I say the Archies "get this tag a lot", the taggers I would be talking about would be people with an interest in making (or celebrating) "perfect pop". The people behind the Archies had an interest in making a record that sold a lot in whatever style was needed to do the job.
David Smay's essay on them in Bubblegum Music Is The Naked Truth captures a certain critical mood:
"They had one job and one job only: create the absolutely irresistible pop song. Again and again and again. Together the Archies isolated the genetic strand of the perfect pop hit and replicated it like a honey-dipped virus."