Tender Trap and the Girl-Group Sound

Indie pop might have been melodic, but it was also a real rebellion – against macho rock and the celebrity machine. Now one of its most talented exponents has a new albumIt was easy to mock, and that was one reason we liked it: it was a kind of music, an argot and a look, called indie pop, or in its extreme forms twee, and it flourished, quietly, in the mid to late 1980s and early 90s, in an explicit reaction against more popular music made either for raves and dance clubs or for blokes in...

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