Why can't indie bands be influenced by those things? There's no point getting over the snobbery which automatically dismisses 'manufactured pop' if we only invert it and assert that no non-manufacturd/'indie' band can be pop. Sure, most of them are dreadful (hi, the Pipettes!) but so are most 'proper pop' acts - and others, like Johnny Boy, will carry it off.

TBH I find it puzzling that people can even see the boundaries anymore, after McFly managed to make a pop career out of being a fourth rate indie band.