Tag: Payola
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Pavlov’s Pop – Is Pop Music Brainwashing You?
Pop music – does it really exist? I mean of course it does, but as something that is popular, in the way that you choose it? It seems increasingly you don’t – like in Russia the pop chooses you, through incessant repetition. The video from PBS’s Idea Channel above and this article describes it as…
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RC 237: Pop is Dead 2 – Arseholes & Repetoire
Finally after over a year (!) the second part of the Pop Is Dead series. I promise to be more, well, quicker with the other parts… This one is about two of our favourite people, the eternally dodgy A&R man and the usually shady manager. Arista say they “love you but the kids can’t dance…