Article: COMMENTARY: Pop music back again

Kevin Bruce
University Wire
10-17-2005
(The News Record) (U-WIRE) CINCINNATI -- As anonymous people walked out of Shake-It Records last Tuesday with the new Propagandhi album, but also with the new Ashlee Simpson album, the feeling of embarassment drops enough that they are able to forgo the excuse of the latter being a birthday gift for a little sister.

It may sound cheesy, but pop music is catchy. It has progressed to the point where people are not embarrassed to admit that they mourned the loss of Blink 182 by spending two weeks listening to nothing but Dude Ranch.

When I was too young to purchase the explicit content containing Dude Ranch, I, like other kids, found myself looking ...

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