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

Re: i know, instead lets talk about

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

the extremeness was in the reaction of the kids. there was one performance in the underage bit of the camden crawl where the crowd went rly mental.

Re: i know, instead lets talk about

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

well, at least hadouken have a semblance of ~energy~, which i doubt many others on that bill did! but kids do tend to go mental surely, it's just like a thousand girls screaming when chris brown appears on stage or something

Re: i know, instead lets talk about

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

My feeling is that Stuff The (Indie) Kids Like is getting quite noisy and shouty and random at the moment. (meaning: a higher proportion of white teens into music like the shouty random wing of things than has been the case for 15 years or so)