Do You Seek Opportunities for (Self-)Promotion?

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

I do! Which is why I'm linking to the first part of my series on (mostly) American teenpop this week over at Stylus. I compiled 5 mixes to correspond with the essays, and will be posting them in a SEKRIT PLACE (shhhhhhh) some time on Thursday or so.

If you agree, disagree, or otherwise care about teenpop, please share yer thoughts here or at my blog, where you might find s'more commentary if I can find some time for it, or over at the Rolling Teenpop thread, which has seen some activity with the back-to-back leaks/releases of Britney, Ashlee, Veronicas, and now DAHV and SKYE.

(If you don't know who Dahv is, stay tuned and you will at least know the glory of "Pass the Shirley Temple.")

Comments

Re: Idiots Posting On Stylus Threads Shocker

[koganbot]

Don't think I saw that guy - thread was only at six comments when I looked. Any reason to look again? If you ever want me to come in as support, I'll be glad to, of course.

Re: Idiots Posting On Stylus Threads Shocker

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Nah, nothing to see here, folks...I'll poke 'n' prod at my discretion, but usually they don't even give me fodder for teasing. (Clash/Hannah wasn't even teasing, I had a hankering for BOTH albums the other day, the former for the first time in a while, actually, but I think I listened to M.I.A. again instead.)

Re: Idiots Posting On Stylus Threads Shocker

[koganbot]

Well, I'd assume that any fan of Vince Taylor's/The Clash's "Brand New Cadillac" who isn't blinded completely by demographic prejudice would at least see some value in Miley Cyrus's "See You Again" (and vice versa, I might add for the benefit of lurkers). But then, I'd have thought that anyone who likes "London Calling" might have noticed the similarities between that and Ashlee's "Boyfriend," assuming they ever bothered to listen to Ashlee's "Boyfriend." (And vice versa again etc.)

Re: Idiots Posting On Stylus Threads Shocker

[koganbot]

Vince Taylor:

"Brand New Cadillac" (unfortunately, no vintage versions seem available; but I think I actually prefer his 1979 demeanor to 1962)

"Shakin' All Over"

"My best friend Lesley said, 'Well, she's just bein' Miley'." (live)(?)

Re: Idiots Posting On Stylus Threads Shocker

[koganbot]

Back to the subject of idiots on Stylus threads: do you think these guys are typical, are representative of the people who don't post? That pretty much they're our readership? What a depressing thought.

Re: Idiots Posting On Stylus Threads Shocker

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Nah, I've gotten messages from people who dig the writing, too, and are at least trying to understand my terms a little -- I think you're going to attract a certain number of people sniping in most comment threads, esp. at a place like Stylus where it's somewhat difficult to become a commenter and existing ones tend to be there for very different reasons (my own blog is probably a better example of who gets drawn in...people interested in the subject matter and totally random googlers). The key is not to give the ugly folks much room to bully people around, one of the benefits of the LJ set up and Poptimists.