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Saturday, December 8, 2007 12:00 AM

What ever happened to Britpop?

"The Brit Box" evokes an era of pale, sensitive, eyelinered boys -- and the Anglophiles who loved them.
By Simon Reynolds

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  • Saturday, December 8, 2007 07:12 PM

    what a load of piffle

    So the crux of this article is that a lot of British music is deliberately bound to a given period of time, and is insular, apparently. And yet the primary reason for the failure of this blinkered music in the US is that it's not American enough.

    As an organizing theme, that seems reminiscent of The Devil's Dictionary definition of selfish: "devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others."

    —haggismold Read haggismold's other letters

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