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

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Dreadful on every level is my first impression. I only know Alphabeat's records, and this IS JUST INDIE. Indie by another name, but still fuckin' INDIE.

retro-fitting of music and image, to hark back to earlier indie-ists (Belle & Sebastian) harking back to earlier indie-ists (Creation era) harking back to wierdly selective version of 60s. TICK

lame ideology of keeping it 'real'. TICK

undialectical opposition between faux-serious (indie) and faux-light (nu-nu-pop) music. TICK

inevitable dialectical hipster response to overground success of 'alternative' styles. TICK.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

I may be overstating this but the baguette I just bought from sainsbury's is horrible and I didn't have any breakfast and I have a headache and generally grrrr...

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

"the baguette I just bought from sainsbury's is horrible" = you desire your baguettes to be individual home-made feats rather than production-line sammiches

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

little feats