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

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I was listening to this on the bus after reading Tom's essay this morning, and it struck me that Hilary's diffidence isn't a million miles from...Neil Tennant, of all people. It's glimpses here and there rather than actual parallels, but I can hear Tennant singing a number of these lyrics...which, I also realised today, is a not-so-veiled coming out narrative. (Change "going out" is "coming out" and it all makes sense. Plus, the whole digital-stutter leading to Hilary's voice being deliberately cut off after "I'm coming---".)