Who killed the "pop" ?

[Johnny]

Pop Music had a bright future.

Then the Spice Girls broke up and we were subjected to all this guitar shit, and emo tossers like My Chemical Romance making number one.

Anyone who likes emo should really be dead, if they've not been driven to suicide already.

Just coz you play a guitar does not make you a proper musician.

Pisses me off.

Wrong, what makes them proper musicians is that 99% of time it's their own material. Even dance music from 1988-1996 had original tunes amongst the samples.

Now virtually every dance tune is a cover so far in the last couple of years Duran Duran's "Oridnary World", Yes' "Owner Of A Lonely Heart", Indeep's "Last Night A DJ Saved My Life" and Bryan Adams' "Heaven" have all been covered.

There's nothing wrong with covering a song is just how good you do it and none of them seem to now.

[Pete]

you like wishing people dead don't you.

Only you.

Anyone who likes emo should really be dead

That should have been an executable offence.

McFly deserve to die.

you sure about that?

Either way I think it shows your mental ability, and once again doesn't help your prospects as a failed DJ. Although I suppose you've already got that down to a T haven't you.

[Jamez]

How can someone be a 'failed DJ'? It's not exactly a hard or mentally challenging job to do. Just push a few buttons and talk between the songs. Not rocket science.

If Katherine can do it, then anyone can!

[Sput]

How can someone be a 'failed DJ'? It's not exactly a hard or mentally challenging job to do. Just push a few buttons and talk between the songs. Not rocket science.

If Katherine can do it, then anyone can!

Honestly I'm not sure whether you're bigging up james martin there or the opposite!

[James Martin]

I'm not a failed DJ either of course.

I am currently in work, as they say.

[cdd]

I'm not a failed DJ either of course.

I am currently in work, as they say.

Yes, but you agreed that you were "not successful", which is pretty much the same thing. It's no wonder no serious radio station will consider you, given that you are incapable of containing your racist and homophobic outbursts. Posting such comments on the internet hardly helps your career, either.

A tip - radio personalities generally have only one personality. And don't have a painfully receding hairline. Oh, and have a life.

Oh, and btw, do you realise that you're the one who consistently turns normal threads into "I Hate JM" threads through your provocations? If I didn't know better I'd say you enjoy the negative attention. A bit like what five-year-olds do.

[Jamez]

A tip - radio personalities generally have only one personality. And don't have a painfully receding hairline. Oh, and have a life.

Erm, I think you'll find the complete opposite is in fact true. Many radio presenters have 'two personalities' and more-often-than-not 'two voices' aswell.

It's surprising that many radio presenters you hear can be quick, sharp and loud on air are usually very quiet, shy and introverted when the 'Mic Live' light goes off.

Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is an exaggeration of his persona. It's an act.

It's been rightly said that radio, and in particular voice-over work, is one of the most intimate forms of acting.

As for the receding hairline - I'm sure JM could e-mail a certain Mr Wogan and ask him for the number of his wigmaker.

[Johnny]

A tip - radio personalities generally have only one personality. And don't have a painfully receding hairline. Oh, and have a life.

Erm, I think you'll find the complete opposite is in fact true. Many radio presenters have 'two personalities' and more-often-than-not 'two voices' aswell.

It's surprising that many radio presenters you hear can be quick, sharp and loud on air are usually very quiet, shy and introverted when the 'Mic Live' light goes off.

Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is an exaggeration of his persona. It's an act.

It's been rightly said that radio, and in particular voice-over work, is one of the most intimate forms of acting.

As for the receding hairline - I'm sure JM could e-mail a certain Mr Wogan and ask him for the number of his wigmaker.

True regarding Chris Moyles, people dislike him because he appears rude & arrogant on air but alot of people who have met him say he's the complete opposite.

Nicky Campbell on the other hand...

[rob]

Pop music is not as good as it was in the 80's. I've given up on British music pretty much, now listening to bands like Bon Jovi, Augustana, Hinder etc.

[marbles333]

I agree there doesn't seem to be as much variety as there used to. "Bubblegum pop/dance" in the late 90's (e.g. Vengaboys, ATC, Aqua, Scooch and so on) seemed to have heavily infulenced pop to something that became repetitive, camp and cheesy after dominating the charts, and later gave way to new genres and ways of doing things (and yes I was a 90's kid :p). Things started changing with more borderline artists of R&B/Pop and Dance/Pop lead to the changing genres of 2001-2003.

Of course all the genres we have now existed 10+ years ago, they just seem more defined nowadays. Things come and go out of fashion. I mean if you look around now, there are things coming back that we haven't seen in a while, like pop group/boy band reformations, partial revival of bubblegum dance (e.g. our Eurovision entry [ugh], Ch!pz) and the more traditional "pop divas".