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Never Mind The Balearics: The Ibiza-ification Of Pop

Simon Reynolds, The Guardian, 14 April 2011

From Black Eyed Peas to Taio Cruz, much recent pop looks to Ibiza for inspiration. And yet for all the hands-in-the-air moments, this music is completely divorced from its original context

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