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| La Oreja De Van Gogh | | (And How We Define 'Pop' Music) | | 01 March 2005 | | FairgroundTown returned from a recent trip to Valencia with a whole stack of Spanish CDs. Our favorite is probably Warcry's dark, melodic, metal opus 'Donde Esta La Luz'; but we freely admit that the one that's spent the most time in our CD player is La Oreja De Van Gogh's 'Lo Que Te Conte...' - an album that a friend of ours dismissed without a second glance as 'just pop music'.
Pop muisc is, of course, different things to different people - it's Blondie, but it's also Britney.
It is also a highly elastic term - is Shakira 'pop'? We (and, we suspect, she) would argue not, but we accept that many, both inside and outside the industry would disagree - pointing to the heavy rotation of Whenever Wherever on MTV; and the artist's audience profile on Amazon.com, where the 'People who bought this also bought...' engine classifies her alonside the likes of Christina Aguilera and Enrique Iglesias.
Finally, sometimes, the term 'pop' music is an insult - implying something frivolous and ephemeral - music to be washed away and forgotten in the next tide. It's the 'just' in 'just pop music'.
But yet... what if we turn this around? La Oreja De Van Gogh ARE 'just' pop music - but gloriously, uninhibitedly so! It is music you can loose yourself in - music without questions or problems - music you can smile to. 'Just pop music'? Just perfect! |
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The point is we are all connected... through love... through loneliness... through one lamentable lapse in judgment!
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