"Classy" Pop

[Pashmina]

I was thinking about this on the bus today. I don't expect many people here to like pop, but I love "classy" pop, as I call it. It usually has elements of rock in it, but is very dancey/upbeat.

Examples of "classy" pop songs:

Girls Aloud - Sexy! No No No.. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQcBwdlanms)
Garbage - Androgyny (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cizBRwETDwc)
Dragonette - Preivew of "Galore" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luAevejI1ik)

Quiet electro too.

Don't be put off by the labels Girls Aloud get. 'Girlband" = AGAHAGAH! to many people, but it's narrow minded not to at least listen.

Any one else know what I'm talking about?

[Amora's_best_friend]

Yeah, I consider Sugababes to be classy pop. They sing pop songs, but actually have dignified lives.

Natasha Bedingfield is classy pop aswell. Like actually has a proper face.

[hail_eris]

If you're talking about smart, poppy music that isn't squawked out by some scantily-clad, drug-addled swamp princess during her brief stints between custody hearings and rehab treatments, then yes, some of us know what you're talking about. I'm a huge fan of Scandinavian pop acts like the Cardigans; the Concretes; The Knife; Royksopp; Annie; indie darlings of the summer Peter, Bjorn & John; and I'm From Barcelona (Scandinavia's answer to the Polyphonic Spree). Then there are gems like Chicago's own Andrew Bird, Canadian supergroup the New Pornographers, and the hilariously droll vocal stylings of Stephen Merritt and the Magnetic Fields. Pop music does not begin and end with the tabloid antics of the latest Lolita to get churned out of the Big Four "it's not payola if we own the airwaves!" media machine...

[Pashmina]

Cardigans rock!

I love her voice. (Can't remember her name)

I always meant to get one of their albums.

[readyeddy?]

I don't know Pashy, I'm thinkin' you might need to take charge of this forum the way I took charge of the Country forum. Are you ready to be the King of "Pop"?

[neutralmarkhot]

the first two Cardigans albums fall into this category. great stuff. when merritt gets his guest vocalists to sing, his mag fields songs do sound quite classy.

[turdburglar47]

Natasha Bedingfield is classy pop aswell. Like actually has a proper face.


I'm not sure about this one. That first song of hers sounds like it was explicitly written to be a commercial jingle for every feminine product imaginable..

[Amora's_best_friend]

I'm not sure about this one. That first song of hers sounds like it was explicitly written to be a commercial jingle for every feminine product imaginable..

Single?

Yeah, maybe, but her follow-up singles and second album have a life.