“I always thought that pop groups were going to be made up in the 21st century. It wouldn't be four musicians, as such. Especially in the online world, with the worlds that are opening up.” WorldMadeFourGroupsCenturyMusicianPopsOpeningOnline21st CenturyOpening Up Author:Paul Morley
“There's different ways of presenting a pop group to the world. It doesn't have to be the same old poses.” WorldWayDifferentGroupsPopsDifferent WaysPresenting Author:Paul Morley
“Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion.” UsedKnownRocksPopsUsed To BeLoudArtificialNoveltyPointlessPop MusicRock MusicDiversion Author:Paul Morley
“Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour.” MoralMassMusic IsPopsConnectedLackingFanaticismPop MusicEnchantmentClumsyDeceitfulRigour Author:Paul Morley
“Through pop music ideas, energies and resources can emerge that can help the audience release themselves from the unrelieving confinements of environment.” IdeasHelpingEnergyAudienceEnvironmentResourcesPopsReleasePop MusicConfinement Author:Paul Morley
“I know, or I dream, that pop music can search out limits, mock restrictions and divisions, exorcise cultural nightmares, contribute to revitaiisation of people's thinking, disturb and inspire if only through its unstable mobility, its readiness to pursue apparently irrelevant links and private associations.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsDreamInspireLimitsPopsPursueNightmareDivisionLinksAssociationIrrelevantRestrictionPop MusicMockReadinessUnstableMobility Author:Paul Morley
“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
