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]

Also, caring about the internal narrative and emotions of the song and the man/woman singing it != caring about the personal life of the performer. They actually intertwine very rarely for me: when artists like Mary J Blige or Tori Amos trade heavily on their own personal experience, or with a special case like Blackout. But with, say, Ciara's "Promise": I've no idea if Ciara Harris herself has ever felt those emotions to a specific person, or if so who he was. But within the song the deeply felt, intimately rendered tenderness and devotion of Ciara, the narrator, are totally key to it.