Wonky Pop

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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

[koganbot]

They misspelled Keith Levene. (That, perhaps, can be blamed on a subeditor. The rest of this, not.)

I only got halfway through the piece. What's wrong with it seems pretty obvious. But I'm in the mood to be obvious so, um, well, it uses the term "identikit"!

[koganbot]

But the question being asked, I suppose, is, do the bands being extolled here deserve to be represented by such an article? On the basis of this article, I may never know, because I will try hard to avoid this sound, but my guess is that (1) I will not succeed in avoiding this sound, and (2) the answer will be "Yes, this fairly represents why these groups are terrible."

This is me being prejudiced, mind you.