Pop Archives - The Glasgow Guardian



Experimental music and the mainstream: a troubled romance

8th January 2023

Leila Edelzstein explores how social media twists the relationship between new music and a baying audience Social media platforms have exacted three major consequences on the music industry. These are the evolution of mainstream pop to support shortening attention spans, the surge of opportunistic marketing (branded as relatable), and the defining of genres by aesthetics ...


Top pop of 2022

29th December 2022

Lucy provides a mini-dissertation, dissecting the best pop music of the year. When Kesha said “I just accepted that I’m kind of a cheesy bitch that loves pop music, and I’m not going to hide!”, I felt that. I cannot enlighten you about niche underground sounds; I am a pop girlie through and through. (My ...


‘Here we go again’ and again and again…

16th October 2021

Will ABBA Voyage be enough for the band to find their place in a world out with time? When ABBA make their debut in the 21st century, they are entering into a very different world to the one that brought them success in the early 70s. As they return to the future it will be ...