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pitchfork.com - 8/27/2009

Articles: The Decade in Pop

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As the old century faded out, pop was booming-- it was as bankable, as focused, and as poorly regarded as it's ever been. Female feistiness met male puppy love in a combination laser-targeted at tween girls, often to the horror of outsiders. Newbie stars would turn up and delight the base with ...

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Idolator — ... Tom Ewing’s overview of pop in the oughts is crucial reading for any Idolator reader, not the least because without his influence in the earliest part of the decade this site (and probably a good chunk of the Pitchfork list!) would look pretty different. (Tom was one of the guiding lights behind the bulletin board ...

Shorties (Noah and the Whale, Sub Pop Nikes, and more)
Largehearted Boy — ... The longlist for the Guardian First Book Award has been announced. Pitchfork recaps the 2000s in pop music. FACT Magazine lists the 20 best post-rock albums. There's Nothing Quite Like the ...

RICHGIRL – “He Ain’t With Me Now (Tho)”
FreakyTrigger — ... I was playing this record quite a lot while I put the final edits on my “Decade In Pop” piece for Pitchfork: now I wish I’d mentioned it. It’s producer Rich Harrison’s pet girlband project, and for once that patronising double-edge on the word “pet” seems sadly appropriate: none of the (meagre) hype I’ve seen around Richgirl even mentions the performers, and on this single the production’s firmly the star. The song builds on blurs of keyboard and strings with a droning, advancing quality – production like an army on the ...