We'll Melt Your Popsicle
Sean Fennessey’s survey of the career of pop producer Lukasz “Dr. Luke” Gottwald is worth reading for many reasons. In order of descending cultural relevance and ascending personal interest:
- The list, with YouTube embeds, of the artists Dr. Luke has produced, from Mos Def to Miley Cyrus to Ke$ha to Weezer.
- The point about how Dr. Luke’s rise coincides with a click on the dial toward a (butcher? less solicitous?) iteration of female pop sexual identity. (I’m not buying the notion, though, that Katy Perry’s biggest hits are “post-sex.” Maybe pre-sex. Goofballs, like fem-bots, have urges too.)
- This: “Avril’s ‘Hot’ remains one of the great uncelebrated pop rock songs of the last 10 years.” Yep.
