The Decade In Pop

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

My enormous Pitchfork piece on "The Decade In Pop" is up: http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/7703-the-decade-in-pop/

Spotify playlist to go with it here: http://open.spotify.com/user/freakytrigger/playlist/6cudPLlniOyOrpX5M5Dnnz

Comments

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

It seems great, but one thing that struck me is that there is (micro/)blogging breaking down barriers and there is backroom wizards making their way to the front but there is no Kanye?

The thing about Lily Allen is that even though people think they know the Real Lily Allen and that the one in 'The Fear' isn't her, the response to a room of people being played it is still a room of people dancing (amusingly, this is also the response to being played Lady Gaga, up to the point that they realise what they're listening to).

Re: Justin and the BEP: I think he's kept his options open - what people will have seen him on this year, apart from the SuperSerious Dead and Gone (and the Madonna single, which I think everyone on the planet is willing to forget) is his work with The Lonely Planet. I don't know that a spot with the Black Eyed Peas would be such a surprise (though I may be saying that just because I'd really love to hear it)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

re Kanye - I thought that there would be a decade in hip-hop essay, so I left him out (same with Eminem). He was in that very sentence about the backroom wizards moving to the front, in fact.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

A very fair criticism of the piece, in fact, would be to say that pop in the 00s basically WAS hip-hop and this other stuff is a lot of interesting niches. Certainly I'd really want to read a thinkpiece on hip-hop in the 00s which dealt with how it coped with being dominant.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

"Room of people" - you will have to specify which people! I have been in many, many rooms of people where the response to Lily Allen would definitely not be to dance. Um, even though I kind of like her now, I'm not sure I'd dance to any of her songs either.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Well, Poptimism, for a start. And the other pop music club that I use as a control group :)