Is This The New Smash Hits?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

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Popworld Pulp, launching in a couple of weeks as a new music WEEKLY (v bold).

Looking at its MySpace it doesn't seem to be offering anything hugely compelling though.

Does anyone here still buy print music media, out of interest?

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Really? That seems a very odd decision - why cut yourself off from part of an audience and also a point of difference vs yr main weekly competitor? Especially as the Popworld programme features that stuff (doesn't it?)

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

Yes, Popworld does cover that stuff, although seeing as I haven;t watched it recently I'm not sure if the new presenters treat that sort of thing in the same way Simon & Miquita used to; from what I've seen it appears to be a bit more self-consciously cool than it used to.

I imagine they are consciuosly excluding types of pop that are perceived by certain types as uncool so that it doesn't get written off as 'the new smash hits' by some of their audience for whom pop is a dirty word (most of the above artists can be described quite accurately as pop, but I bet a lot of their fans would strongly deny it)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I don't think their covering Girls Aloud (or Sugababes) would be evidence of anything - both those acts, like Kylie, aren't really "uncool" pop, or at least they're uncool in the right ways, or at least enough to be everyone's token cheesy pop act.

Really uncool pop is Hilary Duff, Ashlee Simpson, Paris Hilton and so on.