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

The remix culture became very much controlled by the corporate world, it's a marketing tool mostly, to create mixes for different genres. So it's very soul-less in a way.

Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour.

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

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

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.

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