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Where Has All The Folk-Rock Gone?
Following pop music — especially at the stratum just below the A-list — sometimes feels like following a neverending dance of musicians' pivots. Artists, looking for a breakthrough and having less insight than ever into how to get one, don't develop linearly so much as trade sounds with one another. They shift toward or away from bedroom pop, '80s pop, acoustic pop, and so forth, and sometimes those pivots sync up well enough to look like a trend. This year, that trend is supposedly country mus…
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