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

There's different ways of presenting a pop group to the world. It doesn't have to be the same old poses.

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

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.

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

Through pop music ideas, energies and resources can emerge that can help the audience release themselves from the unrelieving confinements of environment.

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.