News Surprising and Unsurprising

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Unsurprising: I did not bother to write to the Guardian.

Surprising: Popjustice sez, in an aside, that Gasolina is the single of the summer! Have we maligned them??

Comments

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

God, I'm a bit rubbish in that I can't cite examples. I can give lots of examples of ones that have a tune and are interesting but I still don't like them, which means that I can't think quite of a massively popular yet shite "young person's urban music" song that fits the bill really well hrrrrrrrn I give up.

That Common single'd be a good example, possibly. What's to like about that sort of mediocre tosh?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

But Common's whole schtick is to be boring!

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

Oh, so Common is to rap what indie is to pop?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

4 years of circular ILM arguments to thread!

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

Haha yes, I'm being a flip twat, here, a bit.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Yes, I was gonna say before my boss came back into the room, Common is a) not popular and b) more indie than urban! 'Conscious' hip hop doesn't count as 'young person's urban music', they imply very different things ('bad' vs 'good' for one of them).