“The Trouble With Pop” – a conversation between Tom Ewing, Hazel Robinson, Alex Macpherson and Pete Baran. Featuring Bat for Lashes, Mastodon, Lady Sovereign, Blackout Crew, Gucci Mane and Girls Aloud.
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Thanks for the deep dive into all of this lunacy. I started reading Cerebus in high school, when it was…
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I think this is more in the sense of "anyone else Sim chooses"
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Loved reading all this Tom, took a while for me to get to it but great stuff!
I don’t know about that I think you still hear chart songs in public often enough. It’s true tho that there’s a wider range of stuff you can and will hear because of the democratisation (of individual tastes) you describe above tho. Whenever I heard someone’s phone music on the bus it was ALWAYS rap or rnb but hardly ever something I recognised from the charts (not always easy to tell when the sound quality is that poor tho). The expansion of sources and outlets for music surely does mean we actually hear a wider range of stuff (songs/artists at least, if not genres) tho yes.
Hi Steve,
Often enough I guess is a subjective term. I certainly still hear some of it on occasion. My point is that I’m pretty sure I hear it far less (to the point where I don’t really know what ‘it’ is).
Keith at 60 – i agree with what you’re saying I think it ties in with the death of “proper hits” up till I’d say the early 90s there were still tracks/albums you heard everywhere sometimes you hardly heard them they were just background music but you’d know they were big.
Now theres music everywhere but its very fragmented eg supermarkets play “oldies”, many radios are tuned into oldies or specialist stations, its always bassline/happy hardcore/garage etc coming out of passing cars.
Even if a song is supposedly a massive hit its very easy to never have heard it – back in the day there were no oldies stations, and far fewer stations usually playing the same few latest hits, pubs would have jukeboxes with these latest big hits which people would keep playing all the time the pubs were open, TOTP was still on and actually still watched by large audiences (with only 3 or 4 channels this was not surprising).
Even people of my dad’s generation or older back then (ie in their late 40s/50s/60s etc) would know all the big hits now I’d say even a lot of those in their 20s and 30s wouldn’t have a clue what was in the charts