Something said in the pub

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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.

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[koganbot]

So I see I do not know what I'm talking about except I still kind of think Lily is her own category and that decline in Xenomania popularity (if there is such a decline) not directly due to people shifting to the Lilys.

(Points of comparison that are probably irrelevant but e.g. shift from hair metal to grunge in early '90s U.S. wasn't 'cause grunge came and took away the hairies. Hair metal was already fading before "Smells Like Teen Spirit" hit. And shift in early '00s teenpop from Britney-*NSync to Michelle-Pink-Avril-Vanessa C. wasn't because latter simply superseded former given that Justin and Britney were already shifting to tougher dance-club r&b stylings and angling for the "adults.")