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

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

Actually, though, the '00s country sonic gender difference may well stem to something as simple as how, in the '90s, Shania's mega-hits maybe tended to lean slightly more toward borderline-dancey post-Cars/post-Abba Europop, and Garth's mega-hits tended to learn slightly more toward AOR and hair-metal and heartland medium-hard rock. So the women and men who came later just followed suit. Still not sure, though, how one of those options is more Not Country than other (and I honestly don't hear how Toby is any more of a country purist than Taylor or Jamie or Faith.)