A Year In Pop: 38

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

JEBUS Poptimists has been quiet this week - this is what happens when Kat's away and I'm ill. But now it's back back etc with a Year In Pop which livens up a little towards the back end with the electro-rock new Sugababes single and the debut of Feist, who seems to be a regular on the Poptimists last.fm lists but who I have never heard, until shortly... after.... posting.... this....

As for Elvis, he said it, not me.

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These are commercial crusades

[koganbot]

I ticked "Illegal Attacks" as a protest vote. (The protest is against the Feist and Sugababes not being nearly as good as they should be, or as good as this, though I'll probably convince myself to tick the 'babes in a few minutes; Lex'll probably be right about the delayed payoff.)

Re: These are commercial crusades

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

The thing I like about the Sugababes record is it tackles head on the current dominance of guitar bands by borrowing from them up to a point - the chugging, chiming guitars that dominate the first verse in particular bring to mind one of my favourite 2007 bands, Ghosts - while mixing in other sounds too and keeping the melody as DUMB as possible so that it instinctively feels more pop than its model.

Does that make sense?

OK put another way: Sugababes try to go a bit indie, fail miserably and make something more interesting instead.