“Pop music can somehow survive being inhibited and mangled by its harsh and stupid commercial chains, and there is surely irreducible potential because of the 'star system' and the volatile attention pop receives for multiples of wickedness, ridicule, discontent, eccentricity, desire to thrive importantly in a genuinely popular context.” DesireStarsAttentionStupidPopsChainsThriveHarshWickednessRidiculeDiscontentPop MusicEccentricity Author:Paul Morley
“Pop music can play a large part in the way numerous young people determine their right to desire and their need to question.” PeopleWayNeedsPlayYoungDesireDeterminePopsPop Music Author:Paul Morley
“If post-punk enterprise suggested that pop music could establish a fierce skittishness, an aggressive self-irony, that would enable it to transcend its manufactured state, video narcissism announces that pop has found an easy way to steal more cash from young people and damage their natural desires.” PeopleIfsWaySelfStatesYoungDesireFoundEasyNaturalPopsStealingVideoPostsIronyDamageEnterpriseAggressiveCashPunkFierceNarcissismPop MusicEasy Way Author:Paul Morley
