This December, Bush is to release her first book of lyrics. But when written down, most pop songs lose their mellifluous magic
Pop music is art. We know it is. Unless you’re a high court judge from 1967, you don’t need that debate re-running. Bob Dylan has a Nobel prize in literature now, and he once wrote: “Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like satin and silk / Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a pail of milk”.
But is pop art when it’s no longer in the medium of music? That is a harder question. Do its best bits, for instance, deserve to be separated out from the bits where DJ Khaled calls his own name in the background, skimmed off into words and given a nice hardback binding to go on your bookshelf besides the Auden and the Complete Works and that Caitlin Moran book someone you don’t know very well gave you for Christmas?
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