> i don't understand why all the new-school electro-pop gets so much criticism > but so much new-school jazz/house/breaks, broken-beat-type stuff passes the > "quality" test. i know it all comes down to individual tastes, but it just
I thought this was because new-school electro pop is crossing over to the indie rock crowd- and has all the makings of an indie rock fad, which in turn means that the fad will end and people will forget about it. While the broken beat movement has enjoyed the same fast growing popularity- the audience is still largely withing the techno-house-idm camp- so techno headz are not worrying about outside forces controlling the fate of this music. the only outside attention seems to be coming from r&b and jazz audiences, and it seems to be a bit more modest- i.e. - has not been turned into a standard formula song structure (at least not as much as the timbaland breakbeat formula :), has not suffered as many limited-pressing/status-symbol type releases to promote the hierarchic fad structure among audiences. Also broken-beat does not suffer the negative connotations of retro and nostalgia in the same way that electro does. i'm mostly critical of the electro-pop movement because i think there is a lot of quality electro/italo that is going to get lost in the sea of mediocre electro-pop, and will soon go unappreciated because people will be tired of all things electro. -p --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
