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.

Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion.

There's endless possibilities to taking music into the future by using music that actually was 100 years old.

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.

I think the internet and the web is just like a big consciousness of the planet, a big brain of the planet.

Essentially the soul of the planet is being controlled by corporations.

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.