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Pop Babylon (2008)

by Imogen Edwards-Jones(Favorite Author)

2.99 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

059306030X (ISBN13: 9780593060308)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Bantam

review 1: Another fast, fast, fast pop read - I read this in two days on my commute. Imogen Edwards-Jones was on to a winner when she invented the Babylon series, in which she writes a fictionalised, insider's view of an industry that intrigues us, by interviewing a source or two. Pop Babylon's protagonist is fun: a pretty gross, lazy, immoral record industry manager who's creating a boy band to cash in on what is already a dying craze. The book itself feels a bit lazy, but there are some great, cynical moments, like pondering how many members your manufactured band should have:"It's more difficult to split up the songs if you're a four, going down to a three. Having said that, the accountants prefer four because you can move them all around in one taxi."
review 2: Not t... morehe best of the "Babylon" series. I really enjoyed the air one, beach was so-so, this one is really quite tame. I didn't like the main character at all. Cringeable cliched, horrible person I didn't enjoy reading about. The boy band was marginally better, would have preferred to read more about them, maybe with more detail to their personal lives and how "fame" was effecting them. Some interesting tidbits about real life bands and their excesses. That part I found good. Really a true tell all might have been more enjoyable. less

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