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Does the world need another indie band?
The short version of that article is that no one really knows who buys Scouting For Girls records. It is quite marvellously vehement though if you, like me, spend a mystifyingly large amount of your time trying to think of a new way of saying 'this is a shit indie single.' Not sure it goes far enough for me on some aspects (the bit with some bloke talking about the wonder of some kids dancing to 80s/90s indie as though this makes them genii is particular obnoxious) but does contain the quote from this subject line.
Edit: I might add, this isn't a 'HAR LOOK ALL INDIE ARE CRAP' post. I think the article's interesting because we've been talking about how these instantly charting indie bands are the new throwaway boy/girlband for awhile, particularly this week and although this is a smug indie person talking about it from a smug indie perspective, it's surprisingly on-the-money in a lot of places. It might be worth asking, if it's not a totally overwrung question that ultimate ends up with 'THE MAN' as the answer, why you think these particular little trends of throwaway bands/groups start and what you personally think brought on this particular glut of awful?
Also, I really cannot emphasise enough that I have had to review The Enemy three times in the last year.
Does the world need another indie band?
The short version of that article is that no one really knows who buys Scouting For Girls records. It is quite marvellously vehement though if you, like me, spend a mystifyingly large amount of your time trying to think of a new way of saying 'this is a shit indie single.' Not sure it goes far enough for me on some aspects (the bit with some bloke talking about the wonder of some kids dancing to 80s/90s indie as though this makes them genii is particular obnoxious) but does contain the quote from this subject line.
Edit: I might add, this isn't a 'HAR LOOK ALL INDIE ARE CRAP' post. I think the article's interesting because we've been talking about how these instantly charting indie bands are the new throwaway boy/girlband for awhile, particularly this week and although this is a smug indie person talking about it from a smug indie perspective, it's surprisingly on-the-money in a lot of places. It might be worth asking, if it's not a totally overwrung question that ultimate ends up with 'THE MAN' as the answer, why you think these particular little trends of throwaway bands/groups start and what you personally think brought on this particular glut of awful?
Also, I really cannot emphasise enough that I have had to review The Enemy three times in the last year.
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Re: Some Stats!
Date: 2008-07-23 04:58 pm (UTC)And "Club/Dance" topping 15 to 17! My guess is that in the U.S. "Club/Dance" gets an older crowd, but also that in the U.S. it is more distinct from the more popular genres than it is in Britain. (That said, I just got an email from Solange Knowles' publicist that says that Michelle Williams' "We Break The Dawn" - co-written by Solange - is #1 on Billboard's Hot Dance Airplay chart. That's actually a fairly small market - only about nine stations in the entire U.S. see themselves as specifically going for "dance" rather than r&b/hip-hop or urban or top 40. But "We Break The Dawn" could very easily be classed as r&b or urban or top 40, and it's a really good song, though I think Michelle's relatively nondescript vocals could be holding it back in those markets.)(And I wonder what the crossover is among your teen respondents, if someone who says "Top 40" and someone else who says "r&b" and someone else who says "club/dance" might be thinking of relatively similar music.)