OMG I've Started To Like Pop Music!!!

[purpleronnie]

I haven't listened to the radio in so long but I was kinda bored of listening to my record collection so I've started to listen agai.

I never thought I'd be a fan of pop music (although I do like some), but already have heard songs I love, Here's a link to 3:

The Futureheads - The Beginning Of The Twist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7eOGf0mnYg

Kelly Rowland - Work (Freemasons Remix)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV_rk6UiNh4

The Ting Tings - Great DJ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myJnsqGgxxM

Maybe its because I'm getting older..lol.

[Belgian guy]

How old are you? I think it happens to the most of us. As a teen, I exclusively listened to alternative rock and stayed clear of anything that even got near to the mainstream, but I've become more and more inclusive as years went by, and now I just listen to good music, regardless of the genre or its commercial success.

[Ringo]

you like pop?
then you gotta listen to Mika.
such sugary-sweet pop it'll make your teeth hurt. but good stuff all the same.

[bojendyk]

OK, ronnie, I'm going to be straight with you: you Brits need to stop sending us all the garbage music you've been making lately. We Americans were willing to cut you some slack for a couple of decades, because every now and then you'd toss us a Clash or a Smiths or even a Radiohead.

But please. Just stop.

The first sign that we couldn't take England seriously any more was when you insisted on the quality of all that Inspiral Carpets/Jesus Jones crap from the 90s. We gave you Nirvana. We gave you Soundgarden. You returned the favor with baggy pants and about one album's worth of good Blur songs.

Seriously, we didn't start worshipping Oasis for a reason. In case you're high on retro drugs from the 80s, let me spell it out for you: it's because Oasis sucked donkey dick.

The final straw was the one-two punch of Arctic Monkeys and The Streets. We humored you guys for a few months before we realized that you were serious. You seriously thought that The Streets was good. Sure, it's amusing if you hear it once, but you really expected us to like it. No, wait, not just that: you really expected us to like it + the million other subgenres of dance music somehow related to it.

The Futureheads don't only represent the 100th iteration of crappy retro pop, but they've even gone as far to appropriate the worst instrument sound in the history of music: gated reverb on the snare drum. That sounded ************ and ridiculous in the 80s.

Kelly Rowland, I'll admit, is our problem. We're not perfect. However, I'll assume that, in five years' time, the Brits will remove the last elements of funk, rhythm, and soul from Rowland's sound and try to re-sell it to the states as, I dunno, the latest car-boot neo grime gem or whatever the ******** you decide to call the ************ genre you just invented.

I have no idea who the other band was, but it was terrible.

[Ringo]

The Futureheads don't only represent the 100th iteration of crappy retro pop, but they've even gone as far to appropriate the worst instrument sound in the history of music: gated reverb on the snare drum. That sounded ************ and ridiculous in the 80s.

yeah. what he said.

a few weeks ago somebody was trying to pimp the Foals as 2008's biggest band-to-be.
can you please be snarky about them too. you're just so much better and that band blows. ok, ok ... I've just heard like two songs. but i feel confident in my assessment.

[bojendyk]

yeah. what he said.

a few weeks ago somebody was trying to pimp the Foals as 2008's biggest band-to-be.
can you please be snarky about them too. you're just so much better and that band blows. ok, ok ... I've just heard like two songs. but i feel confident in my assessment.

I saw that clip. If you watch it with the sound off, everything is an affectation--the ironic mustaches, the guitars strapped at nipple level, the too-tight shirts. Then, you pop the sound back on and--lo and behold!--everything in their music is an affectation as well.

[SirManchester]

It's mutual, for all the indie pop crap Britain is sending over, the U.S. produces that much more crap with its American Idols and faux-hip hop.

[Ringo]

I saw that clip. If you watch it with the sound off, everything is an affectation--the ironic mustaches, the guitars strapped at nipple level, the too-tight shirts. Then, you pop the sound back on and--lo and behold!--everything in their music is an affectation as well.

:D

nice

[Claymore]

Pop music died in the late 70's, in the US. There's no such thing as pop music in the UK.

[Ringo]

Pop music died in the late 70's, in the US. There's no such thing as pop music in the UK.

explain

[Panfilo]

OK, ronnie, I'm going to be straight with you: you Brits need to stop sending us all the garbage music you've been making lately. We Americans were willing to cut you some slack for a couple of decades, because every now and then you'd toss us a Clash or a Smiths or even a Radiohead.

But please. Just stop.

The first sign that we couldn't take England seriously any more was when you insisted on the quality of all that Inspiral Carpets/Jesus Jones crap from the 90s. We gave you Nirvana. We gave you Soundgarden. You returned the favor with baggy pants and about one album's worth of good Blur songs.

Seriously, we didn't start worshipping Oasis for a reason. In case you're high on retro drugs from the 80s, let me spell it out for you: it's because Oasis sucked donkey dick.

The two first Oasis albums are classics.

Whats the Story Morning Glory sold 4 million albums in the states the year it came out.

The US didn't worship Oasis because the Gallagher brothers were dicks to the press. Once they got on the bad side of the press they were done. They could have sold more records here even though the subsequent albums were no where near the first two. The press just replaced Oasis with Oasis light (Coldplay)

[royalstilton]

I haven't listened to the radio in so long but I was kinda bored of listening to my record collection so I've started to listen agai.

I never thought I'd be a fan of pop music (although I do like some), but already have heard songs I love, Here's a link to 3:

The Futureheads - The Beginning Of The Twist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7eOGf0mnYg

Kelly Rowland - Work (Freemasons Remix)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV_rk6UiNh4

The Ting Tings - Great DJ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myJnsqGgxxM

Maybe its because I'm getting older..lol.
first of all, two of the acts aren't really "pop" in the classical sense of the term. The Futureheads are recycled new-wave/post punk drivel. the music isn't all that interesting.

Kelly Rowland might be "pop" the way Michael Jackson is, but who cares. Anyway, it's a remix, so it doesn't count.

The Ting Tings. Ouch.

[Auriaprottu]

Pop music died in the late 70's, in the US. There's no such thing as pop music in the UK.

Priceless! Repped.

explain

You'd have to have read some of Ronnie's threads about the death of punk (I think he said it died in 1978, but can't be sure).

[oman]

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You have to admit, he does say London.

[Ringo]

You'd have to have read some of Ronnie's threads about the death of punk (I think he said it died in 1978, but can't be sure).

yeah, claymore clued me in. forgot about those.

[BayernWake]

Personally I like The Streets. His first album especially. Then they got progressively, umm, worse.