"The future is electro, female and DIY"

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/dec/17/electro-pop-female-artists

AKA the Guardian has another pop at predicting the pop revival.

That said I like all the acts mentioned who I've actually heard. Perhaps this is the Real Thing!!!

Comments

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

So, er, is this article saying that Lady GaGa sells more records than Peaches? *confused*

And, yawn;

Oldham remembers La Roux turning up to sign her recording contract "wearing a T-shirt that said 'I Am a Cunt', which I thought showed a certain amount of chutzpah".

Obviously hasn't spent much time around women in goth, industrial, metal or punk scenes then! This is pretty old-skool alt-fem confrontational dressing, frankly.

Overall, interesting (I <3 electropop after all) but flawed in the usual way of broadsheet music articles, in that it uses a very knowing tone while displaying some, to me, obvious knowledge gaps.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Haha I know right, wearing that T-shirt showed a certain amount of business savvy more like.

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

Sad but true, sad but true.

I am wondering how old James Oldham is; I can't believe he's much under 40 and am presuming slightly older. Hence my thinking he probably spends more time in office than clubs.

*sigh* Middle-aged man in position of authority thinks woman artist selling self through sexualising performance is awesome/radical/liberated? Move along, nothing to see here.

(NB Not saying the above is wrong, just depressingly unremarkable.)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Plus it's tremendously helpful if she wants to market herself as "alt" or credible in any way! Nothing says "cool outsider" like a bit of swearing after all.

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

And she doesn't even have to do that marketing now! He's doing it for her. So she already has other people saying she's "edgy", thus helping to avoid the ENC phenomenon Tim F was describing?

Grief.

Don't get me wrong, I quite enjoyed "Quicksand", but all the surrounding nonsense in the article is extremely irritating.