The arts in 2012: the world goes pop

Caspar Llewellyn Smith on pop's new international pedigreeIt used to be that when we thought of pop, we thought of Pete Townshend in his union flag jacket, or Geri Halliwell dressed in little more than her undies and styled similarly at the Brit awards. Or, from last year, Lady Gaga and Beyoncé in the video for Telephone, masking their bits with the Stars and Stripes. Or we might have thought of Eurovision. But as they say in pop, it used to go like that, but now it goes like this: in recent ye...

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