A MULTI-TIER ATTACK EXPOSING THE RADICAL DNA OF CHART MUSIC

But here's the thing – it's very easy to make something that, on the surface, resembles "PC music type content and aesthetics."  Indie producers all over the internet have been getting super cutesy and candied ever since PC and SOPHIE's come-up last year.  Anybody can re-pitch vocals, make club music with "cute" twinkly synths instead of dark/heavy sounds, or put up high-definition, hyperreal, glossy pictures of cute things up as their Soundcloud profile picture.  So I don't see how a major label or artist jumping on board the cutesy train would be much of a change from the current trend-hopping that already exists (and always has, for countless other movements in music).

To me, however, the kinds of tactics I listed above are pretty surface-level engagements with the incredibly unique, idiosyncratic style that PC Music has.  One cannot simply copy what they're doing and repackage it.  You try commercializing and selling a more marketable version of, say, XTREME MIXOLOGY or any GFOTY song.  That shit won't work – it's deliberately abrasive and very challenging to listen to for most people.  Even the best Soundcloud producers out there are unable to copy what GFOTY is doing, or Danny L Harle (because of their one-of-a-kind personality and insane musical backgrounds, respectively).

Furthermore, there's also something to be said about PC Music's relationship to mainstream pop before anyone was paying attention to Cook & co.  Take A.G. for instance, he lays his influences pretty bare on the table in that Tank interview, and the dude flat-out calls his style "a slick collage."  He owes his entire sound to 90's chart pop, contemporary J-pop and K-pop, and countless other sounds that came before.  I'm not saying his style isn't innovative – it's an incredibly fresh and disturbing hybrid/re-interpretation of his influences – but what people seem to think of as "the PC Music Sound" (if that is such a thing) is something that has been around for a while, in various forms, that seems to be coming back in a big way now because of the unique and playful approach PC Music has taken to it. 

tl;dr - Don't see how major labels can truly "steal" something that was kind of "stolen" from them in the first place.  If you don't know what I'm talking about, Google "Max Martin" and listen to Hannah Diamond's music with fresh ears.  Yes it's great stand-alone pop, but it's also incredibly wrapped up in references to other work that was, originally, of a very commercial nature.

i could never see Max doing somethings as intrinsic as Pink and Blue

i think we're reading too much into this

What do you mean by that? This sentence doesn't make sense, that's not how you use "intrinsic." Something is "intrinsic to" something else or is an "intrinsic part" of something.

Sorry, you're wrong lol. It doesn't make any sense grammatically. Take it from a native English speaker with multiple English degrees. Did you read that definition yourself? and anyway I only mentioned it to be helpful since I know English isn't your first language.

No, it's completely meaningless, that's why I asked haha. It's kind of like if I said "Pink and Blue is very!" you'd be wondering "very what?"

you guys are so sweet