Has the world run out of indie-pop?

A strange system of recycling seems to be taking place. I am just now listening to my beloved Radio 2 (yes, still) and the presenter announced that the next song would be the new single by Ladytron. I got excited, hoping it would be as good as Destroy Everything You Touch. The song began to play. It WAS Destroy Everything You Touch! And the very same thing happened yesterday, but on Radio 1 when Edith Bowman (please note her show wasn’t my listening choice) announced her single of the week to be a new one by Peter, Bjorn and John. Ooh, I hope it’s as good as Young Folks. The whistles began. They’re using whistles again? Wait, this IS Young Folks. I love both these songs and they deserve to be very successful, but if we have to re-release everything just because the general public weren’t tasteful enough to get on board the first time, those of us who were paying attention in 2005 and 2006 will never get anything new!

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