Listening to albums is too much of a chore

[koganbot]

Quote of the day, from skyecaptain:

Why on earth won't someone who wants to talk about Taylor Swift's "image" please listen to her album fucking ONCE before they write things about her? PLEASE.

Have only read some of the essays, but of the ones I read Chuck's was the only one I understood.

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[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

As I said in the interview with Rockcritics, re: teenpop I've staked out territory on both sides of the confessional/bubblegum divide (divide is the wrong word, perhaps "sphere"?) and enjoy both for various reasons. Occasionally they overlap, but for the most part I keep my enjoyment of, e.g., A*Teens distinct from my enjoyment of Ashlee. The problem with AnCo is that they're trying for Ashlee (that is, not-humorless earnestness) and end up sounding much dumber than they would if they just said some dumb shit. Whereas I think Ashlee doesn't pull off dumb shit nearly as well as serious shit, though she pulls off dumb shit more convincingly than AnCo pull off serious shit.