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

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

The Spice Girls was about five totally distinct and different, larger-than-life personalities right from the start. They were like five different manifestations of the Lady Gaga idea of image.

Girls Aloud, on the other hand, won't, ditto Destiny's Child. Electrik Red and The Saturdays are similar in the way that they may or may not emerge as different personalities, depending on how they play in the tabloids and celeb mags, mostly.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Girls Aloud probably prove my point - they were an interchangeable gestalt at first but with time have become pretty distinct in most people's minds.