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O Superfan: How Rock & Pop’s Elite Screw their Loyal Supporters – and why it won’t Work

The mainstream music biz reckons that devoted fans are the golden geese that'll keep laying, and the streaming services are about to get in on the grift. Eamonn Forde explains why this makes no business sense
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How the Music Industry is in a New Age of Arrogance

Eamonn Forde argues that despite a recent report glowing with enthusiasm for the major record label bottom line, hubris, greed and fan exploitation suggest it is heading for another catastrophic fall
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Id Versus Brain: Why We Love Bad Dancing In Pop

From Taylor Swift to Lorde and Sia via Drake, bad dancing in pop is seeing something of a resurgence. Tracing the history of the wonky elbows & dad moves, Annie Lord asks why it's happening now
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The Last Unicorn: Did Taylor Swift Burst The Poptimist Bubble In 2017?

In the first of our 2017-in-review Wreath Lectures, Emily Mackay asks if the critical hysteria and emoji deluge surrounding the every doing of Taylor Swift is evidence that the poptimists need to pipe down
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Is Poptimism Now As Blinkered As The Rockism It Replaced?

With every pop release hailed like the coming of a prophet have the big names of the mainstream sucked up too much critical oxygen? Michael Hann asks if poptimism has merely ended up becoming as narrow minded as the rockism it usurped. (Pictured - the "pop South Sea Bubble" of PC Music)
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Welcome To The New Age: 2014 & The New Utopian Pop

As we approach the mid-point of the decade, Alex Niven argues that pop music is losing its retromanic urge, and starting to look to the future

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