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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thenipper's theory (sassy early-mid 00s pop has been superseded by Allen/Nash/Harris indiefied pop (Amy W. now seems a difft.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?)

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jauntyalan.livejournal.com

is MIA pop?

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freakytigger.livejournal.com

How is she not pop?? (She might be other things too)

From:

jauntyalan.livejournal.com

she doesn't sound pop to me at all :-(

she's off my circumscribed map of pop - which is my own fault. but play her songs in a set of 'pop' and she stands out.

separate question. is she popular?

From:

freakytigger.livejournal.com

She's less popular than the Sugababes but more popular than Maggie Berger :)

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jauntyalan.livejournal.com

everyone in world more popular than maggi berger :-(

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freakytigger.livejournal.com

I think the "map of pop" thing is a more general problem though - other people have talked about this too, how the celebration of pop by Popjustice (and us lot a bit) in the early-mid 00s worked as a drawing up of maps which means that it's a lot harder for ideas that could work as pop (in the broad sense of "wow grebt hook wanna hear that again") to break through into acceptance as 'pop' because they don't fit a sonic profile.

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alexmacpherson.livejournal.com

haha to me the ONLY way in which MIA is pop is how she sounds! (I guess my fundamental criteria are "catchy" and "good beats".) she certainly isn't popular though I guess this will be answered when we see where 'Jimmy' charts (or er doesn't) in a few weeks. I can imagine it in the top 10, I can also imagine it missing the top 75.

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jauntyalan.livejournal.com

to me she sounds as close to pop as the Go! Team

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alexmacpherson.livejournal.com

I couldn't tell you exactly what the Go! Team sound like (apart from "they give me a massive headache which is why I avboid them") but I understand it's kind of Avalanches-esque slightly ramshackle dance? Like 'Don't Falter' or something except crap. But definitely sonically pop.