Ride A White Poll

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

January's Top 40 Singles poll saw apparently everyone's favourite indie-pop stalwarts Belle & Sebastian clinch the top spot with 17 ticks and 54.8% of the vote, with Jose Gonzales, Mylo ft. Freeform Five and Will Young all languishing in joint second place with 13 ticks each. A traditionally weak month there, but things are starting to hot up a little in February, maybe?


[Poll #730533]

Comments

Re: Aiy!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's that odd - I've generally been a sorter rather than an embracer but it's the other way round for a lot of people.

Re: Aiy!

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Not odd as in uncommon but odd as in...ODD!

Of course I'll say 'I like pop' or 'I'll like techno' or other genre as much as anyone so it doesn't really matter. But the 'sure it stands to reason it won't all be great' caveat is also acknowledged somehow within that.

So when people say they love a genre they mean they love the ethos of it as they see it, don't they? Which is good...as you can discuss what that ethos is (esp. when it gets as nebulous as 'Pop'). But also bad for reasons given (the compulsion and process of sorting).

Re: Aiy!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Oh for something as huge as 'pop' yes it would be mental, but I don't think it's unreasonable to like the whole of a subgenre with a fairly consistent sound - eg 'crunkpop' or 'pop-crunk' or whatever.