When researching Indie-Pop Artists, there was an aspect of their character's repeated: they were all white. Although there are artists non-white who's music genre is in Indie-Pop, the majority is white e.g. The Pierces, Lana Del Rey, Nina Nesbitt and Eliza Doolittle. More Pop inclined artists such as Katy Perry, and Taylor Swift are also white regarding skin colour.
This means that by casting Phoebe as our artist, Cara May Smith, we are using a convention of the Indie-Pop genre.
This is an article discussing the convention in more detail which was very interesting to read, and verifies that the pattern is something noticed by the public in general.
http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2011/jan/04/ask-indie-professor
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