Something XMas Pieter wrote:neverknoëls wrote:I wonder what Pieter Spoon would have to say about it?
I couldn't think of anything.
Actually I don't think the 'blurring of genres' argument works quite as well as being posited here. Of course we all know what a Frankenstein creature rock 'n' roll was to start with, and I don't think the mixing and matching ended there.
In the '60s you had the Byrds mixing country with pop and rock, you had Miles Davis adding rockinstruments to jazz,...
In the '70s there was a lot of country-soul being made (as is being rediscovered right now), a lot of the CBGB bands mixed up a lot of different things in their music (just think of the Talking Heads and their world music fixation for a start), then there was the birth of hip-hop which takes the mixing of genres to a whole new level.
Etc. Etc... (No, I'm not running out of examples.)
On the other hand, I don't see what was so genreblurring about Britpop at all. Was there really that much to it besides reviving some glamrock clichés?
When I think of British pop I think of artschool. They either went to it or they sound like they wish they'd gone to it. It's an unfortunate over-intelluctualising of what works best when it remains in the unconscious. It's about looking popmusic over and deciding that it's not enough of a good thing, no, it has to be Art as well.
Hey, someone asked for my two cents.
Wow, I actually agree with you.