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Originally Posted by Glice
I'm not sure about the Tings Tings, I suspect they 'mean' whatever it is they're doing. It's always difficult to decide who's being ironic and who's not. I don't think music really needs this idea of authenticity, but my blood does boil whenever I hear an 'ironic' metal cover of a Britney song.
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Couldn't agree more. It's not as though I look at The Ting Tings and think 'ahhh a couple of Wagner-loving surrealists doing a parody of pop music, look at that deconstructionalism!, forcing the listener to consider their role as a mass-market cosumer-..'-blah, blah. They're a pop group who make sincere, quite effective (I like their singles), pop music without an 'ironic' hidden agenda.
I used to work in an office where Radio 1 was played all day. Every couple of days they had an ‘indie’ band in the studio who would do an ironic, downbeat version of an upbeat S Club 7 or Girls Aloud song, in a clever-clever tone. It was particularly annoying as it seemed to throw down these imaginary turf-marks between pop and 'indie' (and by indie, I mean: Starsailor, i.e., Britpop that missed the party), as if you couldn’t sincerely enjoy both – as though a white bloke, past the age of twenty (and who isn’t a TV gay), could only like pop music ‘ironically’.
I mean, one of my favourite songs is Genius Of Love by Tom Tom Club. It's a pop song but it has some credibility (Talking Heads connection). Does all pop music by relatively bright people
have to be considered as ironic? It's AWESOME.