Woebot
Well-known member
i listen to a load of pop radio with my children - i really enjoy it and because i'm doing it with them i guess i switch off in a critical sense. i do love stuff like katy perry for instance - but i think it's revealing that when i'm alone i never listen to it. i guess it's a family/communal thing primarily.
anyway one of things that i do like is finding ways in which my weird outsider bent informs things i hear on pop radio. for instance there was this funny slot on capital radio where they get famous footballers and light comedians (people like russell brand
) and make them play strange musical instruments. pure freedom business - like marie osmond reciting dada poetry.
one of the ways this really impacts in london is hearing pop radio which has nuum inflections. quite a few pop stars clearly grew up listening to the pirates - and obviously have a pretty strong connection to the nuum (and i'm not really talking about nuum entryism - whereby the prodge/sfa/dizzy crash into the charts from the underground) - i'm talking proper pop stars making hits which betray a nuum aesthetic.
so anyway here's two to be getting on with:
anyway one of things that i do like is finding ways in which my weird outsider bent informs things i hear on pop radio. for instance there was this funny slot on capital radio where they get famous footballers and light comedians (people like russell brand
) and make them play strange musical instruments. pure freedom business - like marie osmond reciting dada poetry.one of the ways this really impacts in london is hearing pop radio which has nuum inflections. quite a few pop stars clearly grew up listening to the pirates - and obviously have a pretty strong connection to the nuum (and i'm not really talking about nuum entryism - whereby the prodge/sfa/dizzy crash into the charts from the underground) - i'm talking proper pop stars making hits which betray a nuum aesthetic.
so anyway here's two to be getting on with:
