Pop and the idea of bands

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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?

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I was memorizing members! It was very difficult for me, my memory isn't very good and also they wear lots of makeup, being able to say "that is Jin!" re: a magazine photo took a lot of time. Possibly other people find this easier - I know some people can recognise Girls Aloud's voices on the songs for instance!

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heh - no I didn't mean that quite! I meant - memorising members versus (with single artists) memorising tracklists, producers... like that sort of list making fandom is easily do-able whether there's one or six or a billion! (the more people there are the less interesting they get, there's a definite curve going on with optimum amount of ppl who can be interesting together, whether it's the polyphonic spree or hey say jump who are both equal on zzzzzz)...

i am a terrible poptimist but i still forget the name of the gurls aloud who are not sarah or cheryl or nicola-if-she's-the-ginger-one. Who are the others?! i don't think girls aloud are massively exciting as a mix of people (but as individuals they can be quite fun).

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

Kimberley is a primary school teacher, she finds London a bit daunting! It is the same kids everywhere, but the men here are different, she's not sure she trusts them. Sarah is boring. Nicola is the ginger one! She loves going to Portobello market. Isn't London exciting? Nadia and Cheryl are both v.pretty - Cheryl thrives in London but Nadia doesn't, she is a bit too influenced by Cheryl and ends up heartbroken, pining for the boy she left back home.

All albums after WWTNS are not canon obv.