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]

It's similar to the various global iterations of Shania Twain's big album - the original country version for the US, a "pop" version for Euro markets (with obvious country signifiers taken out and dodgy electro beats put in), and...a third version, which I can't remember right now, but it may have been something MENTAL like salsa versions for the Latin market.

Anyway yeah it's because record companies are stupid and think Britishers are terrified of country and hip-hop signifiers *stabs something*