Brother, can you spare a DRM?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I remember around the time of Bush getting in and the dotcom bust a few articles (that great pop seer Jim DeRogatis may have written one!) saying, ah well at least this will be good for music as recessions mean a return to grassroots creativity and proper music not this manufactured etc etc.

But on the other hand you could just as easily argue that in bad economic times music can provide a bit of escapism and fantasy - Busby Berkeley dreams and all that.

Do you have a view on the effects of economic gloom on the 'mood' of pop - the type of things that are likely to get big?

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[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

hahaha, YES! RETURN OF TEH LUMBERJACK SHIRT!!! end timez etc. did we fight the britpop wars for this etcetcetc

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking the other day about how cosy my old lumberjack shirt was! I assumed it was the onset of Autumn but in fact it was the ECONOMIC WINTER NOEZ.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

OTOH various directional stirrings are also pointing toward MOAR GLITTER, consistent with your theory above. Patrick Wolf** might have jumped the gun with The Magic Position's tour last year is what I'm thinking.

** Former tween-aged Kenickie fan; there was more than one 1998.

[cis.livejournal.com]

there was more than one 1998

AND WE HAVE LIVED THEM ALL