Pop and the idea of bands

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

I don't really listen to bands or groups. I think poptimists has something to do with this - I certainly don't see many bands featured here, and I think they still get a bad press even among those who have rehabilitated pop to themselves? Maybe even rightly!

Do you? I feel these days like having more than one focus distracts and confuses the focus of music, making it weaker - but then I'll make exceptions for moments like golden-age Girls Aloud, when it sounded like 5 solo artists all recording at once, leading and pulling in different, exciting directions. Or at the very least - you knew who they were.

What do people think?

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

There's been a fair bit of discussion about Electrik Red of late?

But in terms of UK pop there have just been fewer bands generally - cf the big industry focus on female solo artists at the mo. I'm not intrinsically against the idea of bands at all - but the only UK pop band I am currently interested in monitoring the progress of is JLS (and to a lesser extent Girls Can't Catch/Saturdays but that's mainly car-crash viewing).

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Also as great as Electrik Red are, they're also completely flopping in the US. And Richgirl are doing even worse.