More like 'The Old-Fashioned', do you see

[zenith.livejournal.com]

The worst PopJustice post ever. Yes, "the views expressed here are not necessarily those of PopJustice", but still - on this evidence The Modern would appear to make The Kaiser Chiefs look like... like... like something other than vile snobby Daily Mail readers. Let's ban hip hop and make the "chavs" read books and get rid of reality TV and do 101 of the same old grumpy old git things that will bring 'integrity' back to pop music, yes, WELL DONE. I don't think this nonsense needed a platform, did it?

A real shame, because I've been enjoying PJ lately despite dodgy things like Eurythmics competitions (the preview of the new Girls Aloud made it sound mouth-wateringly good), but this seems to confirm all those allegations about the site's dubious blind spots...

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

when people are that snide and sneery about something which is really really sonically similar to other stuff they praise, alarm bells start ringing in my brain

[zenith.livejournal.com]

"RnB and Hip Hop had no relevance to my life growing up. No matter what Dizzie Rascal says there are no ghettos in Deptford so we had to look else where for influences, not America."

Says a member of The Modern here (http://www.ireallylovemusic.co.uk/interviews/the_modern.html), not in answer to a question about r&b or hip hop or grime. Said member is called Chi Tudor-Hart.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

So many ways to get things wrong!

Deptford?! HACKNEY. AND. BOW.

[dorsalstop.livejournal.com]

Well yes, sonically similar, that's the thing. I know your main argument goes "so much pop these days is influenced by r&b/hiphop, how can you love the former and not the latter?" But a Sugababes-track with r&b influences is still a Sugababes - i.e. pop - track, and quite some distance removed from 50cent.

It's like: pop kids who liked Ace of Base back in the day didn't necessarily have to be into Bob Marley.
(unless they were worried being called racists by you, of course :)

[dorsalstop.livejournal.com]

However, having that vile Black Eyed Peas track above the 'buy this' line is unforgiveable and I will never visit PJ again either.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

well, i don't think anyone necessarily has to like fiddy if they like the sugababes. but it's the nature of the criticism which irks me: it seems to ready to castigate the performers and consumers of 'urban' music in terms of racially/socially loaded stereotypes ('chav music', 'thugs' blah blah blah). and it's the fact that so many of them seem to use the word 'urban' with no hint of irony, or of how very wrong it is, which is an alarm sign as well.

'my humps' is an atrocity. but i think i secretly like it, but just can't admit it to myself yet.

[zenith.livejournal.com]

I have had to accept that the accusation "If 'My Humps' was by Fannypack or Avenue D you'd like it" is entirely fair in my case. 'The Peas' are still abysmal in general though.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

fergie is a very, very wrong woman: this is FACT whether 'my lovely lady lumps' is atrocious-good or atrocious-atrocity.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I am glad I am not alone in this creeping sickness.