"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

[mindtaker-cro.livejournal.com]

i like the Lady GaGa album, and i don't hear vacuousness but rather... i dunno, some kind of formalist purity? she keeps singing about money, fame, paparazzi, hipsters, nightlife with the beautiful people etc etc track after track, and to me it sounds more like she's in love with the idea of those things rather than in love with them. it's like becoming famous isn't means to an end (ie being rich, being adored my millions) but something that's noble and romantic and fascinating and worthy in itself (for whatever reasons that can't be easily grasped - and shouldn't be grasped, really, because the magic would then trickle away). i hear an element of doe-eyed naivety in her persona that reminds me of a smalltown girl devouring fashion magazine pictorials and desperately wanting to be a part of it all, and that element shines through when, in midst of all the 4x4 grind, out of nowhere comes the lovely Ace of Base throwback Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQAvksbvK5A).

otoh all of this might easily be just make-believe on my part, a way for me to rationalize me liking an album that i wanted to hate, and that i hope doesn't become a blueprint for anything. still, make sure you check out the track i linked to above, it's really wonderful.

(other faves: Money Honey, Paparazzi, The Fame)