What is the sound of now?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

In yesterday's conversation about Pizzicato Five and pop, Cis drew a kind of distinction between pop which obeys current sonic rules and pop which refuses to (apols if my precis loses a lot of subtlety).

This interested me and got me thinking what the current rules of pop might be - not just in terms of sound, but attitude, look, emotional content, trends, etc.

What characterises late 00s pop? What is happening now which wouldn't or couldn't have happened before? What will allow a kid in ten years time to identify music from now? (in the way that a music fan who had never heard records or seen pictures of Suzi Quatro, or A Flock Of Seagulls, or Ned's Atomic Dustbin might be able to put them in place and time)

Comments

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

so much of my favourite music at the moment is by solo female singer-songwriters or ones working with one male (producer) or fronted by same e.g. Feist, The Bird And The Bee, Cortney Tidwell, Jenny Wilson, er..maybe Psapp, Ellen Allien and MIA count too.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

trip-hop redux!!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

and ellen IS a producer, she needs no man

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i know, altho she tends to work with a techier guy e.g. Holger Zilske

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

all techno people collaborate but ellen really is big bosswoman - she's more responsible for them than they are for her!

we saw her at the m_nus rave yesterday, like, totally fucked off her face.