Long ago, when fluoro was dying down and the world was entering into the “grunge” fad, ‘Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade’ was getting its ass kicked by ‘Batman’ at the box office and The Monkees disbanded (only the first in many attempts to do this), the most amazing thing happened... I was born!
To get to the point, I am Jess and I basically have free reign over all of you (sort of). I shall be writing about anything and everything to do with music and I believe I will be doing you all a great service this year - keeping you up to date on what music is cool and what is not and any new emerging talent I pick up on. Hopefully by the end of the year I will have some kind of influence over you all. Uh… I mean you’ll totally be able to make your own decisions and stuff.
Anyway, today’s topic of discussion is “Electropop”! You may be
thinking “Uh... what?”, however you are most likely more subconsciously
aware of it than you may think, you just haven’t realised it yet.
Electropop is actually quite prominent in society today, with New
Zealand music television channels and radio stations jumping on the
Fueled By Ramen (FBR) band-wagon, which is known to produce high
amounts of Electropop inspired bands. The reason for the FBR franchise
being so successful is the influence it has over the “tweens” in this
country, who are drawn in by the Electropop “appeal”. Cool, I have the
official right to call them “tweens”, we’re in uni now, right? We have
so much more right to be elitist; it’s AUSM (pun unfortunately
intended).
