“Pop music is just... *great*. I mean, think how impoverished our lives would be without buoyant, catchy-as-all-fuck melodies and treacly chord progressions to snap the brow-beating monotony of "serious," "intelligent" or (self-)"important" music. Pop seems to be at its best when it's straightforward, without pretense, gimmicks or aspirations to be something more. And when it works right, song-love”
