- artfulness,
which elevate it over
other forms of po****r music. So-called "
rockists" may
promote the
artifices stereotyped in rock
music or may
regard the...
- 2016-10-25. Loss,
Robert (August 10, 2015). "No Apologies: A
Critique of the
Rockist v.
Poptimist Paradigm". PopMatters.
Archived from the
original on April...
- country, pop-punk, and folk rock. When
Swift embraced a pop identity,
rockist critics regarded her move as an
erosion of her
country music songwriting...
- of rock
above all else". Spears' "slick,
breezy pop was an
affront to
rockist sensibilities, and
claiming that
Spears was fake was an easy way to dismiss...
- the magazine's "500
Greatest Songs" list as an
example of "unrepentant
rockist fogeyism". In
further response to this issue, rock
critic Jim DeRogatis...
- ****y, and
industrial (all good) and earnest, polite, sweet, righteous,
rockist and
linear (all bad). It was good if a song took you on a
journey or made...
-
including acts such as
Orange Juice, The
Human League, and ABC. The term "
rockist", a
pejorative aimed at
those who
rejected this type of music,
became ****ociated...
- all-girl, in-yer-face pop
group have
arrived with
enough s**** to
burst that
rockist bubble." "Wannabe"
entered the UK
Singles Chart at
number three before...
-
young man was, in the
vernacular of the time, the very
antithesis of a '
rockist' –
always knowingly closer to the
gentle ironicist Alan Bennett, or self-lacerating...
- like an 'alternative' group."
Paste described them as "a pop act with a
rockist core",
featuring progressive rock,
shoegaze and
disco influences. Lewin...
