Because I didn't have any queer, lesbian, female role models I hated my own femininity and had to look deep within myself to create an identity that worked for me. Pop culture just doesn't hand us enough variety to choose from.
It's hard to make a lot of pop culture references where there's no pop culture.
I was never too interested in high school. I mean, I never went to a dance, I never went out on a date, I never went steady. It became pretty awful for me. Except, of course, I could go see bands, and that was the kick. I used to go to Cleveland just to see any band. So I was in love a lot of the time, but mostly with guys in bands that I had never met. For me, knowing that Brian Jones was out there, and later that Iggy Pop was out there, made it kind of hard for me to get too interested in the guys that were around me. I had, uh, bigger things in mind.
Hip-hop is interesting, but American pop music doesn't have the kind of diversity that the UK does.
I can't judge how another person does their [music] work. Everyone has a choice and the music industry is much more open that it was when I was younger. Certain things are gone, others have developed, but everyone makes their choices. Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public. I don't feel it's my place to judge. I just look at things as a fan, I like or or I don't like it.
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
Everybody was in tears. You turned on the radio or the television, and it was nothing but Gainsbourg. With typical British music journalist disdain, I just figured it was a testament to how poor French pop was if there was this much fuss about a guy who had one hit record, 'Je T'Aime (Moi Non Plus)'.
American pop group N'SYNC's. I listened to it endlessly in my dad's car. This also made me wanna be a singer.
I love to pop up at the movie theaters. I love to treat the people who are there.
We think about strategies in pop songs to make people listen to them and be like, "What the hell was that?" But then they have to listen to it again.
There's one site where you can buy pictures of me for five bucks a pop.
I love pop music. Who doesn't?
The whole celebrity thing is not something I'm overly interested in. I don't pop up at parties. It's just not my thing.
So much of our cultural representation of what an investigative journalist looks like, in movies and pop culture, is about this really testosterone-filled dude screaming, "Give me what you got!" I didn't see myself as someone who would be good at or comfortable with that.
In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
I'd love to be a pop star - at heart.
I love pop music, but I also love noise music, IDM - anything really, I get something out of most kinds of music. I just need to enjoy the process.
There are a lot of reasons to be hated in pop culture, and being a straight white male is one of them. In fact, I almost hate me
I really tried to go for that sound of the '60s pop melodies but I'm living in the present so that makes it contemporary. I like to pretend I'm outside of myself and that is what the recordings and the process helped me to do.
I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.