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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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  • Monday, December 10, 2007 11:39 AM

    Omphaloskepsis

    It's interesting how many readers have taken to side or disgress with Reynolds, on the grounds of a supposely in depth analysis of the box's time frame; but at the core I can only see his dislike for the genre (page one of the article), serving as a rule to judge every song as not hip-hop like (or black enough).

    Maybe on a future review we can enjoy another journey into his mind -which is fine, but should find it's way to the article's title or first line blurb- or rather, a judgement based on the merits of the songs themselves, but not for what they are not.

    —MarlboroTestMonkey#7 Read MarlboroTestMonkey#7's other letters

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