Wonky Pop

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

http://music.guardian.co.uk/pop/story/0,,2277201,00.html

Guardian piece on the "Wonky Pop" tour (Alphabeat and some other people) making an assortment of points:

- Grass-roots pop is coming back
- A desire for pop stars to be individual eccentrics rather than production line stars
- Pop marketed to adults not kids
- Buyers and fans who grew up on Busted and who like performers writing their own material.
- An increased UK openness to European pop*

I get the impression the bulk of the community here are into this kind of thing, with some notable dissenters (of whom I might well be one). So what do we think - are thinks really looking up for pop?

*if you yourself are feeling open to European pop, go and VOTE in Europop 2008: France v Holland and Italy v Romania [/hype]

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I'd like Mr Petridis to clarify something: do Leon Jean-Marie's 'collaborations' with Dennis/Ronson/Bloodshy&Avant etc fall under this category as well? It's ok to write/play your own songs as long as you have enormous £££ producers under your belt? Or is that not 4Real enough? Obv I am in favour of £££ production as much as the next poptimist (I'm sure the 'identikit indie-rock' would sound MUCH BETTER with a bit of half-arsed knob twiddling from Xenomania over the top) but something about this murky conclusion of 'what ver kids want' stinks to high heaven.