tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post6819947164347145898..comments2024-03-28T17:54:41.814-04:00Comments on Face to Face: "Z-Gen Degen" (parody of Wheatus, "Teenage Dirtbag")agnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-5464812380122570572021-09-27T22:05:44.938-04:002021-09-27T22:05:44.938-04:00Last power-pop hit: "Just the Girl" by t...Last power-pop hit: "Just the Girl" by the Click Five, from 2005 (a year after Juul's final marker of "1985" by Bowling for Soup from 2004).<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQBu5whSgC4<br /><br />Written by the songwriter from Fountains of Wayne, Adam Schlesinger. And definitely a one-hit wonder, not an album band.<br /><br />Reached #11 on the Hot 100 weekly charts, and even landed on the year-end chart, at #89.<br /><br />From there, it morphed or devolved into Disney / Jonas Brothers territory, but you can't say that genre didn't go out with a bang. Awesome song.<br /><br />(Also, congrats to the blogger for not having a distinctly Millennial voice. Thought she was a Gen X-er until the age reveal.)agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-51796455754314634872021-09-27T22:00:31.778-04:002021-09-27T22:00:31.778-04:00Female power-pop: "In Your Room" by the ...Female power-pop: "In Your Room" by the Bangles, fronted by perma-hottie Susanna Hoffs.<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04HSg0YZi9Eagnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-74871212670600257762021-09-27T21:50:56.012-04:002021-09-27T21:50:56.012-04:00Some synchronicity with the Red Scare fandom, or r...Some synchronicity with the Red Scare fandom, or rather a blogger who also posts on their subreddit. A late 20s straight woman writing structured posts? They really did used to make up like half of the blogosphere back in the late 2000s. Quite the rara avis today, though, and deserving some signal-boosting.<br /><br />Her musings on power-pop:<br /><br />https://leftyourjuulinmycar.blogspot.com/2021/09/oh-my-sharona-never-let-me-down.html<br /><br />I would add to the take about power-pop being the most masculine / high-T genre, that it's really the most heterosexual genre. Guys love pretending to be the singer, girls love pretending to be the one being sung about.<br /><br />It's all about courtship and woo-ing, meant to lead to pair-bonding monogamy. Not about scoring with a bunch of sluts, or hating on bitches, etc. Those things are entirely compatible with gayness. But not with two high school sweethearts who are going to marry and have kids together.<br /><br />That's why there are basically no homos in power-pop, and why they don't worship the genre like they do others by heterosexuals (e.g., the torch song, the resilience anthem, etc.).<br /><br />And that's why the post correctly intuits that there's something off about Michael Stipe to qualify REM as power-pop -- he's too gay. You can say "geeky," but it's really just gay.<br /><br />Gays don't court and woo for long-term pair-bonding. Their minds are more stuck in the pre-adolescent stage of "ewww, girls are yucky". They're pre-social, where everyone is disposable and interchangeable.<br /><br />Power-pop is not for those who have settled into married life, which is more adult contempo. It's more about those initial stirrings of not just attraction to the opposite sex, but the exciting game of courting them in order to win them over for the long haul.<br /><br />And that's why it's generally men leading the genre -- men woo, women are wooed.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-67348524808488328602021-09-27T15:05:09.716-04:002021-09-27T15:05:09.716-04:00The voice is gender-neutral, so this could appeal ...The voice is gender-neutral, so this could appeal to Zoomer girls who are lesbian, bi, or "girl crushing but will never eat an actual pussy" bi, as well.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.com