Guardian article on non-futurist pop

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

http://music.guardian.co.uk/pop/story/0,,2060953,00.html

Bands be borrowin'.

This is under discussion elsewhere on the interwebs but I thought I'd tap the wisdom of the Poptimist crowd.

Comments

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

and FWIW I don't hear Mika or Amy Winehouse as carbon copies of what it is they are supposedly imitating. In fact they do feel more like the sound of '07 than the sound of '67 or '77 to me.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

absolutely. the only regressive thing in the article is the attitude that the article takes up.