The former beats the latter for freshness (and I had an awful time parsing it), but both are nice. I love the longer Downs that crash through not one not two but three themers, i.e. But here, the theme is spoonfed to you, and while figuring out anagrams is inherently entertaining (uh, if you're me.), the disconnect between artist and anagram left the puzzle without snap. If somehow phrases could've been made out of the anagram/artist phrases, GUNS 'N' ROSES' NURSE'S SONG, or CELINE DION: INDIE CLONE, with clever clues, maybe this would've worked better. I also didn't like that the anagrams came first, i.e. There needs to be a hook in the cluing or anagram relationship or something, something to make the puzzle Pop as opposed to just sit there as an interesting curiosity. This is what I mean when I say the concept wasn't ripe. really Really makes the cluing of the "artists" dull and redundant. First, the title has "Remixes" in it, which a. There are a couple of smaller issues for me too. That lack of connection (in clue or in content) between anagram and base word made this one feel more like a mere exercise in letter rearrangement than a coherent and (more importantly) *funny* theme. anagrams that are not even vaguely related to the names they are rearrangements of, the whole thing left me with a "so what?" feeling. But since they're (highly) inaptograms, i.e. I love that all the artists are "#1 Billboard artists"-gives the puzzle a nice consistency-just as I love that all the anagrams are themselves music-related in some way. This feels like a concept that wasn't allowed to ripen.
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