"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

[koganbot]

OK, read the Tim F post. Agree with this of course (written by I'm not sure whom): "Lady GaGa's 'i'm interesting and arty' angle relies totally on her post-facto justification of it, there's nothing in her music or performances that would point to it"

But Tim loses me completely when he talks about "vacuousness." I realize he doesn't mean it as an insult, but nonetheless it's false if you take him literally - i.e., that if songs or performers have no capital-S Significance then they have no content - but I don't know what else he means by it. If Britney's voice is vacuous, then so is Jolson's and Sinatra's and Presley's and Jagger's. And if dance pop means nothing to Tim - well, obviously that's not true, dance pop means a lot to Tim. Maybe I should give the post a more concentrated reading, since he proposes all these different subvariants, but he seems to be short-circuiting his ideas by letting a single word do too much of his thinking for him.