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

[koganbot]

But people won't understand, since "democracy" has too much of a goody-goody-pants connotation, as if we're making the music a better fairer place and the result is good etc. Like, saying that the solar system is a democracy because every asteroid has gravitational influence hardly seems right, and there's no reason we'd want the solar system to be a democracy anyway. What I said in one of my country critic ballots - "in general I like music that overspills its container, though for this to work well there has to be a good container in the first place" - doesn't translate into "democracy" (or "aristocracy" or any other form of making political decisions) in any way that makes sense.