Pop was ruled by women in 2013

Related Articles Books review of the year 2013 21 Dec 2013 It almost makes me wonder how pop can pick itself up from such a devastating assault on its essential meaninglessness, except, of course, it doesn’t have to. The same people downloading Lorde are streaming Rihanna and screaming at One Direction with no sense of incongruity, while the stars themselves blaze on oblivious to all but their own Twitter timelines. Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik and Niall Horan of One Direction Photo: AP For a decade or more we’ve been listening to the recording industry telling us that the internet is killing music but there seems to be more of it about than ever. Pop may...