i.e, girls aloud, sugababes, rachel stevens, producers like xenomania, richard X, dallas austin- in general, shiny, bells&whistles gloss-pop, stuff that is popular on Popjustice
apropos of this under-remarked upon bit of simon r's defend-the-indefensible arctic monkeys post-
I don’t really buy this notion of the nu-Pop as the nouveau New Pop. What it is, it’s like New Pop if New Pop had only been in the mold of Dollar; if there’d been Trevor Horn, but no ABC, no McLaren, no Frankie, no AoN/Morley. The characterless vocals, the choreographed routines, the quirk-less personalities…. it couldn’t be further from the New Pop menagerie of Adam Ant, Kevin Rowland, even the spark of a Clare Grogan. The comparison with postpunk is even more tenuous: formally there’s a strong element of retro-pastiche in the Nu-Pop, which stems from its links to mash-up culture, and draws heavily on this indigenous English-pop tradition...
now when in a pub/listening to radio/patronising the surrey quays shopping centre this music tends to be the only that i don't find distinctly upsetting- but much of this is fairly apposite- someone like GA quite aptly illustrate a Heat celeb-nondescriptness- though I'm reminded of Wrong Side of Capitalism's bit on their ostentatious boredom as radical in itself.
also though, none of this is really even that popular as pop- esp compared with the neo-britpop lot. so...what do people think about this? or is its interest wholly formal? is it in its own way as retro as the indie it languishes in the shadow of?
apropos of this under-remarked upon bit of simon r's defend-the-indefensible arctic monkeys post-
I don’t really buy this notion of the nu-Pop as the nouveau New Pop. What it is, it’s like New Pop if New Pop had only been in the mold of Dollar; if there’d been Trevor Horn, but no ABC, no McLaren, no Frankie, no AoN/Morley. The characterless vocals, the choreographed routines, the quirk-less personalities…. it couldn’t be further from the New Pop menagerie of Adam Ant, Kevin Rowland, even the spark of a Clare Grogan. The comparison with postpunk is even more tenuous: formally there’s a strong element of retro-pastiche in the Nu-Pop, which stems from its links to mash-up culture, and draws heavily on this indigenous English-pop tradition...
now when in a pub/listening to radio/patronising the surrey quays shopping centre this music tends to be the only that i don't find distinctly upsetting- but much of this is fairly apposite- someone like GA quite aptly illustrate a Heat celeb-nondescriptness- though I'm reminded of Wrong Side of Capitalism's bit on their ostentatious boredom as radical in itself.
also though, none of this is really even that popular as pop- esp compared with the neo-britpop lot. so...what do people think about this? or is its interest wholly formal? is it in its own way as retro as the indie it languishes in the shadow of?