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

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

not to get too deep into this kind of fight all over again but "horrific muso territory" is a very poor place-marker term for the actual issue here: there is NO pro-muso faction in this fight, in the sense of activists arguing for an understanding of musicianship AS MUSICIANS UNDERSTAND IT (as opposed to "as old Q lags understand it"?)

(the two biggest pro-musos ever to take up battle on ILM were arf arf -- an articulate and interesting mid-school jazzer -- and geir hongro, who is and remains geir hongro, alone far out on his own wing of the war)