Fickle Jades

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

There was a time, a couple of years ago, when a new GA and a new Sugababes single within a week or two of one another would have caused mass fizzing and rejoicement among the "online pop community". No longer it seems - "Sexy No No No" got a warm but not really thrilled reaction and "About You Now" seems to have snuck out without much trace.

This is maybe grist to thenipper's theory (sassy early-mid 00s pop has been superseded by Allen/Nash/Harris indiefied pop (Amy W. now seems a difft. k of f)) but what ARE you getting excited about at the moment? What are you looking forward to, o Poptimists?

(&, as importantly, what do you see other people getting excited about?)

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Calvin Harris comes across as ever more reprehensible every time I think about him.

Anyway it might be because both GA and the 'babes are such veterans these days - I love both new releases but they're basically doing what we expect - I mean they are on the fourth and fifth studio albums respectively! That is a hell of a lot - both have more than doubled the Spice Girls' output already. I think real enthusiasm - in most genres, not just pop - is reserved for new blood (as in first/second album) rather than familiar faces (excepting people like Madonna). And basically there is NO NEW BLOOD along the lines of GA/Sugababes. This is why the hottest topics on Poptimists this year have probably been MIA and Aly & AJ.

Personally the rapid turnover of new faces in both minimal and r&b really keeps me interested - it means the scene itself is fertile. This seems to be the case with US teenpop as well. But let's face it the British pop scene is really, really stale at the moment.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I wanted the question to expand to take in everything in music, not just "British pop", which I don't agree is stale, there's a definite forward momentum but I just don't like any of it (and nor do you).

And similarly you could say that a rapid turnover of faces means a scene is flailing around a bit, if nobody's ideas are strong enough to let them sustain a career longer than a couple of hot singles!