
Unfortunately, within each category there was still plenty of room for boring. Gatsby seem to straddle a binary of epic cinematic-ness and minimalism. Did they think that it was perfectly normal for electronica to be playing in Elizabethan times, or for singing, hyper-color hookers to dance to medleys of 1980's pop hits?) This time, our story is set in the 1920's, where Jazz would have been their poison, but in Luhrman's adaptation, we get a mix of hip hop and indie pop/rock. (I have to wonder if they have no knowledge of his previous body of work. ( Popledge - Sarah runs one of the hardest-working respectable pop music news blogs around follow her on Twitter and you can get top-notch critical thought in betwixt posts like " One Direction smoking something on £2.3 million pound yacht!" (v.g.) ( M essiah: While it seems it would be quite foolish for anyone to be surprised that a Baz Luhrman film would have an unconventional soundtrack, based on the reviews that I've read of The Great Gatsby, its music seems to be a major point of contention for critics. Vertigo Shtick - The spark that grew into Vertigo Shtick came when one overly critical-thinking arts writer named David Kenniston noticed that there were almost no pop songs on Pitchfork's Best of the 2000s list, nor most other outlets either it now exists to question, decipher, explicate and dispense the critical and artistic elements of mainstream pop, down to the nitty gritty details.His writing can be found at Dear Song In My Head and Pop Matters ) Wanting to counter the satanically emblemed music site's preference for fashion and scene over musical content, he focuses his writing on the music and theory of Pop.

( SmartPopScott - Scott Interrante is a music student who grew so tired of the blogging world that he decided to join it. That doesn't stop him, and his witty but wise blog, from getting it right when it comes to pop music (if not Ke$ha, who is in fact the pop Messiah). The Pop Messiah - Dean Boudreau is our lone Canadian panelist, which means he's pretty much like us but can't get Spotify and you can't send him iTunes gifts.
