Any thoughts on this http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/dec/14/isolationist-british-pop?intcmp=ILCMUSTXT9385 ?
― Minga Frump (Jimmy Riddle), Thursday, 15 December 2011 12:12 (twelve years ago) link
this is pretty weak
There are lots of things we'll accept Europeans, that undifferentiated mass encompassing everyone from Estonians to the Portuguese, are quite good at – cinema, sex, cheese-making, and so on, but pop music remains a sticking point for many.
think you could generalise reasonably that the same people who actively follow European cinema won't have a dismissive attitude towards Euro pop either unless they're sneery about pop in general...
and he doesn't actually offer examples of decent euro pop, only refers to the more mono (or pan) cultural guetta, afrojack and stan as if they're a on a (credible) par with most old italo and new beat "hits"
― nashwan, Thursday, 15 December 2011 13:26 (twelve years ago) link
idk, i think 'lol French pop' is still a very common attitude in the UK - way more than 'lol French cinema ever would be. It's always frustrating to see articles in the press (including the Guardian, btw) starting off 'France may have a totally undistinguished history of pop....'. It seems to be a fairly common attitude to a number of other countries. Perhaps i spend more time than most people looking at the comments on Eurovision or on the few bits and pieces that break through into the UK media but 'wft does Germany know about pop?' or 'when did Italy produce a band as good as The Beatles' crop up fairly regularly.
There are links to Mylene Farmer, Yelle and Magic System in the text and, at the bottom, a link to two articles on German and Polish chart music.
― ShariVari, Thursday, 15 December 2011 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
New Christina Aguilera single next month, apparently. She's meant to be working with Max Martin.
― ShariVari, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 10:09 (twelve years ago) link
http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/20/rihanna-responds-to-slur-in-dutch-magazine/
well this is charming
― OH NOES, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
i don't understand how it was possible for even a dutch magazine to do that! i haven't been able to find out what kind of magazine jackie is (ie whether dodgy racial stuff is in character for them etc).
amusingly, on the popjustice forum there are about 4 current mammoth rihanna threads on the go, filled with all conceivable minutiae about her current campaign, and yet no one has seen fit to mention this stuff yet.
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
idg Dutch attitudes towards people of African heritage. Not saying, of course, that every person in the Netherlands is bigoted, but this kind of thing seems to come up every year or two.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
so has anyone seen the La's in their latest round of shows? Playing New York in March.
http://www.bowerypresents.com/event/84857/
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
(sorry that's about as POP as I get)
this song is still my shit
willow is the baddest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7AQ7No84Uc&ob=av2e
― v-shasty, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
or every Christmas, even
― OH NOES, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
whoa
― that wiener from Emearlds (step hen faps), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
can't stop listening. it's so rainy & dark outside and this is perfect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2v1N2q0sxs&fmt=18#
― uberweiss, Friday, 23 December 2011 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
That's fantastic.
― Tim F, Friday, 23 December 2011 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
oh my god that taylor song
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Tuesday, 27 December 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
she is the perfect person to do a dystopia lullaby
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Tuesday, 27 December 2011 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
So hilarious that if she wasn't singing and this was just The Civil Wars by themselves, the poster of this track would've been run off the pop thread by an angry mob.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link