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

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

why the surprise? why the implied maligninging?

i only heard gasolina today for the first time. i guess i don't listen to t'radio much these days - i hear it's ubiquitous or summink. i like.

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

I think there's a very definite subsection of the "young person's urban music" that PJ doesn't like, which is often incorrectly broadened to encompass ALL "young person's urban music".

I think it's a mild form of Geirism, actually. Let's be honest, a lot of this stuff is drab and tuneless. Gasolina, even though I hate it, is certainly neither of those two things.