I'm not sure the inspiration or creative impulse behind pop is cynical, a lot of it still someone in a bedroom trying to make a timeless statement about life and love. The exploitation and categorisation of that impulse is another matter entirely. Even when it is commercial to its core with pay-roll song smiths and session musicians slumming it as with Motown, it can still turn into something special.

I mentioned Cindy Wilson yesterday, who has done folk treatments of defiantly un-folk B-52s songs like 'Roam'.