In an interview with
The Observer, Dan Radcliffe has spoken openly about his tastes in music and what he thinks of certain bands and genres.
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'If you look at bands who say they're punk now, like Sum 41, and then look at the Sex Pistols and what they stood for and what they meant and what they managed to do and... well,' he says, taking in the interior of central London's opulent Merchant Taylors' Hall, a 600-year-old banqueting venue, 'the others are just pop music really, aren't they?'
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Radcliffe doesn't like pop. Scratch that: he loathes it. So much so that the City of London School pupil is on record as saying that pop is music that 'shouldn't be made or sold', and that 'record shops should be fined for every pop album they sell'. Today, shortly before the premiere of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Radcliffe's fourth outing as the trainee wizard, the 16-year-old is slightly more magnanimous, remarking only that he 'couldn't cope' with a hip hop album and that jazz is a 'demanding' medium. Reggae, house and R&B merit one huge shrug.
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Now, he says, in tandem with Matt Lewis (who plays Neville Longbottom), he's on a mission 'to convert the heathens' in the cast, though he's had little impact on his colleagues' tastes thus far.
'I made a CD for Emma [Watson, who plays Hermione Granger],' he says. 'I included this fantastic singer-songwriter called Brendan Benson and a bit of Ben Kweller's first album, Sha Sha. I've since found out through other people, though, that she has lost it, which I am very offended by and will bring up with her at some point.'