"Pop deserves better than this, but the story, sadly, is an old one. It's called 'playing the big-selling music', and it's really nothing new. Bowie did it when he started making embarrassing jungle records instead of striving to invent entirely new, radical forms of music as once he did. Prince did it when he started churning out Xeroxed R&B for an audience of lap-anything-up fanatics. On a more pop note, Madonna did it when she stopped innovating and started emulating, all her challenging eccentricity sucked in by the likes of William Orbit and spat out as dollars and cents. Further back, Duran Duran did it when they started crooning slick stadium shite. Bros did it when they went all gospel and grown-up on their third album. More recently, Kylie's just gone and done it, turning her back on the most challenging music she ever made (did you actually listen to her last album? All of it? Not just the daft indie rubbish? Amazing stuff)."



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