Seeing as my defense of Del Amitri was so universally well received, I've decided to press on with another new installment in a series unofficially titled: "Trying to Find Something Good About the Shit Music I Quite Liked as a Child".
This time around it's the turn of mainstream Britpop. Specifically, I'd like to suggest that one quite good thing about Britpop, to put beside the many, many flaws, was its (relatively) positive gender politics.
I mean, okay, you could argue that a lot of the female lead singers in the videos below were objectified in the familiar manner, and there was obviously something pernicious about the rise of the "Ladette" archetype.
But on the whole these figures represented a culture that comes off pretty well with the modern trend for female solo singers who are basically talent school session musicians, "fashion icons", "divas" and puppets of sinister Simon Cowell-esque managers / record producers.
Anyway, the bottom line is that these were all cracking choons, I reckon.
This time around it's the turn of mainstream Britpop. Specifically, I'd like to suggest that one quite good thing about Britpop, to put beside the many, many flaws, was its (relatively) positive gender politics.
I mean, okay, you could argue that a lot of the female lead singers in the videos below were objectified in the familiar manner, and there was obviously something pernicious about the rise of the "Ladette" archetype.
But on the whole these figures represented a culture that comes off pretty well with the modern trend for female solo singers who are basically talent school session musicians, "fashion icons", "divas" and puppets of sinister Simon Cowell-esque managers / record producers.
Anyway, the bottom line is that these were all cracking choons, I reckon.
