if you want to make something truly populist within the 2010s/2020s context you will have to make pop dnb or screachy jump up. that's the thing with pop music, it's an impersonal process coded by the market, not a sphere to project desires onto. barty once quipped that my music is an oxford don experiment and in a way I can see where he's coming from, I value music where there is some kind of input or thought in its creation. The problem is to then swing to the other side and claim that just following the zeitgeist (out of some misplaced antihumanism or whatever) is in any way revolutionary. If anything, pop music has always been more humanistic in its timbres and textures. even a lot of the 00s dnb harkened back to rock music more than it did techno.