Three Minutes, Thirty Seconds

One of my New Year’s Resolutions–for the past several years–has been to start a little blog about pop music. It’s hard to know what one can say that’s different or additive to a music genre that’s been declared DOA so many times.

I’m not a music expert. I barely know my bridge from my middle eight. I do know that a good pop song can be from any genre (alt, disco, punk–even country) and any nation (as I can and will prove.) And more and most importantly it can change your life. No really. It can. More efficiently, more quickly than any other art form. A movie takes 90 minutes at least. A book, for me lately, can take weeks. A good, quality pop song though, can, in the space of one chorus, make you quit your job, dump your boyfriend, stop your heart, make you change your mind, make you go back, make you say–even sing–the things you didn’t think you ever could–in just three minutes, thirty seconds.

My goal in the year ahead is to do here what I do for patient, tolerant, but mostly eager friends every day: share with them small treasures from my sometimes all-consuming hobby as pop librarian and music archaeologist. Hope you enjoy.

~ by agitpoptimist on January 1, 2008.