Never mind the Balearics: the Ibiza-ification of pop

From the Black Eyed Peas to Taio Cruz, much recent pop looks to Ibiza for inspiration. And yet for all the hands-in-the-air moments, this music is completely divorced from its original contextThe other day we were driving in the car, listening to one of Los Angeles's top 40 stations, and I turned to my wife and asked: "How come everything on the radio sounds like a peak-hour tune from Ibiza?"All these smash hits have the Auto-Tuned big-chorus bolted on top. But underneath, there are riffs and va...

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