Something said in the pub

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

by thenipper:

"I think Lily Allen and Amy Winehouse have killed Xenomania style pop, in the same way Britpop killed off Take That."

(I paraphrase)

Let's talk about....THE ZEITGEIST of BRITISH POP.

Comments

IMO

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Bad production killed the Xenomania style pop. 'Chemistry' sounded so, so hollow and dated and tinny and cheap in comparison to either of its predecessors and what I've heard of the Frank album was the same.

And then Timbaland and possibly also Mr Ronson came along and made it sound even tinnier.

Re: IMO

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

But Timbaland was around pre-Xenomania - and new Timbaland actually sounds hollow in comparison to old Timbaland in a kind of similar way to nu-Xeno/old-Xeno...because it's not Timbaland really.

Re: IMO

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I dunno, new Timbaland does at least have the virtue of sounding like it cost more than 0.3p to record and not like someone was just sort of throwing it onto a mixtape and hoping some of it sounded ok. The thing that annoys me most about Chemistry is really that they needed a dance producer to carry it off, at which point it would have sounded classy and terrific.