Rogueish

The Radio 1 playlist, and hence the top 40, is more deadeningly conservative than anybody can remember, dominated by an oligarchy of collaboration-happy artists (Rihanna, Bruno Mars, David Guetta, Pitbull, Jessie J), most of whom converge on the same R&B-goes-to-Ibiza template.

I’m not going to disagree that the Radio 1 playlist is pretty conservative, but it’s not because it has too little indie. If I’m counting right 17 out of 43 playlisted tracks are broadly “indie,” which seems like quite a lot for a pop music station.