Warning: danger of poptimist spontaneous combustion...

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

...as Robyn covers "Buffalo Stance". Link courtesy of Nu-Popjustice: new look, new (old?) address, and a bugger to load -- on my machine at least. Robyn/BuffaloStance/Nu-PJ: Three times the poptimax thrill power!

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[(Anonymous)]

morelike Racistbyn covers "Buffalo Racist" link courtesy of Nu-Popracist, amirite?

Alex MacPherson, honest.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

oi! spell my name right at least.

also this new 'amirite' internet slang thing = lamest internet slang thing yet.

this sounds even worse than her saul williams cover which is just abysmal.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I actually think it could be quite good, in a Konichiwa Bitches way. Much rather this than "Manchild".

PS I am not amirite guy.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Robyn's voice and cutesy intonation + "what is he liiike?" or "that guy's a gigolo, man" = UTTER HORROR

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

B-b-but NENEH says it in a k-cutesy voice.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

k-cutesy rude girl >>>> k-cutesy twee indieist!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Neneh = indie AS FVCK she used to be in Rip Rig and Panic who were the Out Hud of their day!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I like Out Hud they are not indie but I did not know about this and she doesn't SOUND indie!

[zenith.livejournal.com]

I really liked that Robyn/Jenny Wilson* cover of 'List of Demands'! Much better than the original. Perhaps next they could cover some proper hip hop.

* = down with The Knife = cool by me.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Maybe next Robyn could just try singing some proper pop, rather than INDIE. She's terrible on it! And the original is awesome.

(I don't know much about Jenny Wilson but I think my window of botherd re Scandinavian pop females has closed - it's a bit too much of a cliche now. The Knife are still great, mind.)

[zenith.livejournal.com]

Yes of course Alex CLOSE THE BORDERS.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

They all sound the same to me!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of sympathetic to the Lex's position tho, one of the big trends in yer 'pro-pop' massive seems to be towards this sort of bloodless cutesiness (cf Bertine Zetletz who makes Robin look like Sheffield Dave), it's all insufficiently boshin' if you ask me.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The other big trend being "plasticky guitars" which I'm more 'down with'.

[zenith.livejournal.com]

The two things that irk me about Lex's (Robyn-specific and general) position are: i) the purism - the idea that there is such a thing as "proper pop" and it must be kept CLEAN of indie; ii) the idea that their is a fillable quota for a certain type of artist, or a time window that can expire...

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

i) the purism isn't re the pop, it's re the indie - EVERYTHING must be kept clean of indie (unless you are a genius like JLC who can make The Killers good).

ii) well I stand by this one! It's a perfectly natural and valid way of responding to music - another new artist in the genre du jour can have a definite over-saturation effect. Of course anyone can sidestep the ennui by being super-amazing and great. Robyn, well, she isn't.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The problem there Lex is that the definition of 'indie' wide enough to include Robyn also includes a KILOTON of rotten ladypop you like.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I can kind of take indie when it admits it is indie and takes advantage of its non-popness to push the boat out v far - really the music I can't stand isn't blanket indie but the vast wilderness between indie and pop.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

when bertine pops up on my i-tunes party shuffle randomizer, it makes a nice 'free-lunch' style change -- possibly mainly bcz i have NOTHING ELSE LIKE HER on my book

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Yes it's the bloodlessness which riles me most (cutesiness SHOULD be a plus point but a lot of the people in this New Trend somehow fail at it). I really like two Bertine Zetlitz songs - 'Fake Your Beauty' and 'For Fun' - but the others are all a bit meh.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

MUST HEAR THIS

I must investigate The Ark more too - 'It Takes A Fool To Remain Sane' is the only one by them i know but I love it.

And ditto Christian Falk, whose 'Make It Right' was fab glitzy pop-house ala Modjo. But what else?

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

The Ark are terrific, "Fool" is their best song, but one must also have "This Piece Of Poetry Is Meant To Do Harm" and "No End" (power ballad WITHOUT DRUMS) off their last album.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

also I rather like the look of the new not-racist PJ site myself.