Comments on: The Sound of the Atom Splitting http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2001/06/deathofpop1/ Lollards in the high church of low culture Tue, 29 May 2012 13:50:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: chosen man http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2001/06/deathofpop1/#comment-678443 chosen man Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:17:38 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/old-ft/2001/06/deathofpop1/#comment-678443 Pop died when the first teenagers became parents and carried on buying albums; it died because baby boomers outnumber the under forties; because the back catalogue means that few new artists can produce something as good as has already been done; because an increasing number of increasingly untalented artists with nothing to say but an ambition to be famous and rich; because the video made image more imortant than music. Pop is variety; its Girls Aloud; its X-Factor. Or its RnB videos with half clad girls to attract teenage boys; or its Lily Allen... its business. As Morrisey said 'it says mothing to me about my life'. Pop died when the first teenagers became parents and carried on buying albums; it died because baby boomers outnumber the under forties; because the back catalogue means that few new artists can produce something as good as has already been done; because an increasing number of increasingly untalented artists with nothing to say but an ambition to be famous and rich; because the video made image more imortant than music.

Pop is variety; its Girls Aloud; its X-Factor. Or its RnB videos with half clad girls to attract teenage boys; or its Lily Allen… its business. As Morrisey said ‘it says mothing to me about my life’.

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