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

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

But the story in the song, I think, is more celebratory than this seems. "Got gloss on my lips, Man on my hips, got me tighter in my Dereon jeans." There is a sort of "me and my girls out at the club" feeling to it, which seems to be somewhat at odds with how specific the narrative is. It's a song that does generalize, as a dance anthem and by privileging that put-down as a sort of mantra for other women ("all my single ladies [repeat after me]") but the lyrics themselves aren't particularly generic, and nothing about the general thrust of the song, or the feeling of the song, can totally undo what she's actually saying, which is complicated.