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.