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

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I think it was me who said it and Mike quoted it approvingly. The binary doesn't totally hold up, partly because the content of "Baby One More Time" and Destiny's Child (MAN HATERS!!!!111) was really central to the discussions of those at the time, partly because they're modes of appreciation and, as Steve M says, neither are useless ways of approaching stuff.

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Haha, yes I knew you were involved somehow, but you don't get all the credit for writing EVERYTHING brilliant on pop, even if I have to misattribute stuff you said! And yeah, these are fluid types, but there's some...y'know, truthiness to it; it feels right, even if it isn't right. Maybe it's two paradigms, neither of which are clearly attainable as a binary but each of which factor into discussion, often one sphere more than the other.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

http://tomewing.tumblr.com/post/65349721/poptimism-my-part-in-its-downfall

Here you go - long comment from Frank too.

This is also actual PROOF that I use my Tumblr as a notebook, which is my self-justification for it.