What became of pop in 2013? Are we in a better place now that David Bowie is back and David Guetta has shut up for a bit, or did we plummet down a moral sinkhole led by Robin Thicke and a sledgehammer-wielding Miley Cyrus? How can we know for sure where we stand? With a haphazardly compiled collection of imaginary pop awards, that’s how. Happy Christmas, see you in January.
his was the year that Fleetwood Mac returned to the stage with the long-absent Christine McVie, and Kraftwerk brought every one of their albums to a long live stint in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. But the biggest fuss was reserved for Bowie, his top-notch new album The Next Day and his glam V&A exhibition. Now how about a 2014 world tour, Dave?
Two decade-old beats and synths were everywhere in pop, on Katy Perry’s Walking on Air, Lady Gaga’s Do What U Want, Count on Me by Chase & Status and Bastille’s Of the Night, which blended two big hits of the early Nineties to such appalling effect that an appearance on a special music edition of Crimewatch is inevitable
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