Yet Another Year In Pop: 48

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Peter Kay and chums climb up to the number one spot; double entry for Su-Bo; absent-minded moderator finally remembers to include ancient re-entry in poll three weeks late.

[Poll #1492336]

Nominations for the 2004 poll close at 5pm on Thursday. Please comment with your nominations on the original post, not this one!

Comments

[rechabite.livejournal.com]

Not outrageous, but a fact.

Cher, Bon Jovi and Heart are pop, Whitesnake are rock.

Pop is about sex, mischief and danger, rock about stolidity, barrenness and acceptance of things as they are. So, for instance, Dizzee Rascal is pop whereas Taio Cruz is arguably rock. It's about ways of living, seeing and hearing.

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

I can buy that as an ideology, even if I don't really agree.

But Don't Stop Believin' is about sex and danger and NOT accepting things as they are.

[rechabite.livejournal.com]

Thing is, wee Steve Perry's about as sexy as Hughie Green. And I have the feeling that "not accepting things as they are" in 1981 American terms meant "no more socialism" and so the song functions as a shorthand for "escape" into Reaganism, i.e. "freedom" interpreted as "freedom from" rather than "freedom to."