A couple of weeks ago, Julie Burchill tried to sound >Important and Controversial in the Guardian by writing >about grown-ups who profess to
Hello Popkids, Yes, it's me again. Reprazenting the Youth as I always said I would. Lucy said: like P!O!P! and how >they should leave shiny, fluffy music in the territory
of teenagers. The boy G: Which is complete and utter bullshit, of course, and >shows how indescribably little Burchill knows about >anything, least of all the teenagers shes so "down" >with*...
I thought Julie B was rather on-point there actually. Don't get me wrong, I think she get's too caught up in hating everyone too much of the time, but this time she's not suggesting burning beautiful things at the stake (with the obligitory "he's a list of good-looking women I *do* like" tagged on the end) She's not saying you can't enjoy it, she's saying don't try to understand it, don't pick it apart and poke at it. Adults are not going to have the same emotion, the same love about pop music as young people will. Though Tim from Baxendale does a pretty convincing impression of being the eternal popkid, we know that in real life, he does go home and listens to Momus and Hefner and the Boards of Canada, as well as Geri Halliwell and Oxide and Neutrino whilst penning songs about his failed love affairs. Yes - he's a charmingly hapless romeo. This isn't Craig David material. Yes I am a stuck record. Shut up! I don't think you can turn around as a weathered, rent-paying adult, who has seen all the mess and dirt which comes with the teritory of growing up and moving out - I don't think you can then generate quite the same level of fantasy and excitement a 13 year old girl would over the verse chorus verse verse chorus. Didn't you find, when Alistair first wrote about Baxendale on Tangents, it was with a sense of sadness? and he put it down to age and the fact that he couldn't really loose himself in the whole thing anymore. He called it "lack of ability to suspend belief", probably because he's a writer and he's got to make it sound more fancy. Most of my pop dreams were over by the end of Primary School - my friends all decided they liked Nivarana and Guns and Roses because their sweaty sisters did, so it was byebye TakeThat wristbands, Hello Skull Bandana. I am back to liking commercial Pop again after a fairly long stray into the wilderness. There's a list of my favourite songs of the year here: http://members.boardhost.com/natureshated/msg/4173.html Right, I'm going to go and rub my thighs furiously in a Vic Reeves style in front of a picture of Jude Law. Bah Humbug. Erica x P.s Nick Dastoor called Stuart G an "amiably bumbling fool" and to him I say - nice trousers: http://www.geocities.com/carsmilesteve/summerwasting/quipsandquotes.jpg http://welcome.to/houseofscarlet +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+