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

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

i have ~been~ in the cardiff barfly and no band which performs there can remotely be considered pop! here i apply the "what would mariah do?" rule.

obv i hate this whole trend, and the whole argument, and have hated it for a while, and it's the kind of thing which makes me not want to say "i like pop" b/c people will assume you're into this shit rather than good music.

i think i want to live in the usa. i really don't like europop.