History is Bunk

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I have a new Pitchfork column up - if it seems like ages that's because it's been ages! (not their fault or mine - standard skip week plus festival reports pushing things back).

This one is about pop, history, and what a history of pop should or shouldn't include (hint: no actual music).

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/142636-column-poptimist-17

It was born out of listening a lot to the new Girl Talk album, though as is the way of these things Girl Talk then vanished from the piece completely while I was writing it.

Comments

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

History is an act of selection, a mixtape or a Greatest Hits album: presenting its topic in a particular, tricky light, cutting away irrelevance, leaving fans to quarrel about what got left out.

I LOVE YOU!!

Thank, this is a *great* article - would you mind if I linked to it from my journal?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

No problem at all! Link away!