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!

Comments

[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.