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most of the good shit has been mentioned, but don't sleep on Bun B - "Draped Up". in the same vein as "Sittin' Sideways" / "Still Tippin'" / "Back Then"; slow, syrupy with a chopped hook. also Webbie f. Bun B - "Gimme That" is kind of fun, if not terribly original.

k-punk's suggestion that Geezaesthetics opposes anything but opinion-based criticism sent me back to the books in an attempt to find an explanation for a positive vision of a popist critical culture. after wading through James Heartfield's 'death of the subject' stuff (not encouraging) and...

where does the Geezaesthetics manifesto prohibit any of those things? "Criticism is conversation and we want to hear about your reactions, especially if you express yourself interestingly. Disagreeing is part of the conversation." disagreeing could certainly involve holding pop culture or the...

you can cut the race-baiting. 'urban' originally was a word that US radio stations used to call their emerging rap/r&b format, so they could sell advertising. it's not a euphemism for 'all black music', because they were also trying to disassociate themselves from quiet storm radio. apparently...

oh come on, don't tell me you've never faked the funk. "i lost my friends, i danced alone it's six o'clock, i wanna go home, but there's no way, not today, makes you wonder what it meant, and, uh..."

i like the production but i hate the sound. is that possible? what i mean is, i like the way tracks like "Bread & Butter" are structured, but the drums sound really plastic-y and annoying. it doesn't really diminish my favorite tracks here ("Feel It In The Air", "Gotta Have It", "Purple Rain"...

both of you seem to be arguing that if masses of people take the same actions (dancing, rioting, purchasing one elvis record each) as somehow implying that the same feeling must have made them do it, but in my opinion, that doesn't follow. observe a photo of two people dancing at a rave. one...

this point perplexes me. for one thing, if you accept that individual responses to music are as diverse as language (as per Tim and Sterling Clover), then the idea that huge numbers of people have felt the same way about any music seems wildly reductive. did elvis' fifty million fans feel the...

the main fault that i can see in this interpretation of the popist position is that you assume a popist can only allow satisfaction on one level, can only evaluate surface and not depth. what you describe is popism taken to its extreme - things with depth (X) cannot be allowed to have any value...

Right, and then went on to say (and I quote) "I also think the "popist" is totally a strawman, really: though it's true that, somewhat for forensic *and* critical-strategic effect, at war with the world or with myself, I find it helpful to take as read that every #1 is BY DEFINITION "good pop"...

What is this latterday pop-ism of which you speak? All I hear popist defenders saying is that not being 'authentic' is not a deficiency, which sounds like Frith 101 to me: Simon Frith says: My critical principle has always been that a great record can come from anywhere and anyone at any...

I agree with you. When I was teaching in Singapore last year, all my teenage students loved "Where Is The Love" and made fun of Britney endlessly, which is why I jokingly made the distinction. I don't know any blogger types who like "WITL", but anyone on ILX who didn't like Britney back in the...

the test: what is the best pop song of the last ten years? a) "Hey Ya" b) "Hit Me Baby One More Time" c) "Where Is The Love" If you answer X then you are Y: a) ex-indie popist b) blogger popist c) unreconstructed popist (i.e. an actual teenage girl)

DavidD, I can't speak for anyone else, but my idea of a 'popist' is not simply someone who likes pop. My definition of a popist is someone who believes that all music is worthy of equal consideration in the marketplace, regardless of how much money, time and effort were put into making and...

Some really interesting points being made, but I'm suspicious of Simon's assertion that popism throws the baby out with the bathwater, discarding the blinkeredness of belonging to a community like indie, while ignoring its virtues. Like he said, popism is often embraced by ex-indie fans, which...

holy snap! i haven't been this close to live grime since dizzee was supposed to play fabric but cancelled only after i was already through the doors, 15 pounds poorer. (acourse i was a total grime rube at that point - when i bought my first grime 12", i told the guy i was really enjoying the new...

wasn't there another site that was streaming pirates? i tuned in once or twice back in '03 but due to time zone issues i always used to catch random sets playing Ashanti and mediocre 2-step