The History Of Pop Part 46 aka You and me baby aint nothin but mammals

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

In a hard-fought and popular Now 45 poll, Kelis beat Daphne and Celeste by two votes. In Now 46, Britney is back, Kylie is back, Aaliyah is back, and so is Billie (now with surname), but the big debut - in future direction if not in ticks - is Coldplay.


[Poll #733725]


ATTICK ATTACK

Comments

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[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT TICKING AALIYAH. EXPLAIN YOURSELVES PLEASE.

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[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

SHE IS DULL.

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[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

SHE IS THE GREATEST ARTIST OF OUR GENERATION AND SHE HAS THE MOST AMAZINGEST VOICE I HAVE EVER HEARD AND I. LOVE. HER.

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[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

SHE IS ALSO LARGELY CHARACTERLESS eg SHE WAS JUST BEGINNING TO IMPINGE ON MY CONSCIOUSNESS WHEN SHE WENT AND DIED, AND EVERY TIME SOMEONE HAS PLAYED ME A SONG BY HER SORRY everytime some one has played me a song by her my attention wanders off halfway through so why do people keep insisting that it was a great and tragic loss that I should feel personally?

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[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I agree actually. I think Aaliyah had a 'personality problem' akin to Girls Aloud but worse. It could've been part of her appeal in an odd way and perhaps you could say the same about Monica too. Sweet voices but lacking real power and they were totally carried by great production.

Brandy benefitted by starring in Moesha so could endear herself to people more that way. I never saw Aaliyah in Romeo Must Die but it could've been anyone playing the Queen of the Damned let's face it.

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[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

ymof she is awesomely awesome in the awesome QUEEN OF THE DAMNED which perf. i strongly advise you let impinge on yrself: even if all r&b is so much babble to you she was a TOP GOTH TOO

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[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Characterless is the last thing Aaliyah was! She had this amazing gift of completely, completely and wholly inhabiting her songs in such a way as to be quite perturbing. She was only beginning to impinge on yr consciousness because prior to her third album her critical and commercial success was mostly confined to the US.

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[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I'm sure I like Aaliyah. But I honestly can't remember how this song goes.

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[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Dude! It is AMAZING. I will play it to you tonight.

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[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

"I'm into you, you're into me, but I can't let it go, so easily, not til I see, how this could be - could be eternity, or just a week; but if at first you don't succeed, dust yourself off and try again, you can dust it off and try again, try again" (acid squelch bass)

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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The key bit being ACID SQUELCH BASS.

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[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

The bit where everything except the acid bass drops out fucks with your head through headphones.

I think her vocal performance is absolutely beautiful too, she really nails the in-limbo situation, the emotional intensity of Playing It Cool, playing the game &c

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[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Acid squelch = u+k. Hearing this the first time was one of my grebt uber-wtf-is-THIS pop moments.

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[cis.livejournal.com]

it was the first Aaliyah song i recognised as being Aaliyah! Timbaland production - he starts it off, it's been a long time, we shouldn'ta left you, without a dope beat to step to, step step, step to, step to... and then she sings the verses sandwiched between standard timba click-twitch beats and low acid squelch, and on the chorus there's this lost-sounding synth flute ghosting around, hum-like chorus of her own voice harmonising around her, the whole thing's very contained and calm and cold and amazing.

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[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

OH THAT ONE!

hahahaha. ok, i'll go back and tick it then...

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[cis.livejournal.com]

SUCCESS.

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[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Same for me, although I should probably say "only." There's one other, I think, but I can't remember it.

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[zenith.livejournal.com]

Hoho, for some reason this reminds me that when I first got into this song I was still clinging to that "I only like RUFF RUGGED RAW hip hop!" nonsense pose, therefore I only listened to the remix which had D! M! X! ROFF! on it. Ruffles.

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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

If Aaliyah doesn't come top 3 I'll be tempted to stop the now polls, or delete Poptimists, or make some other futile gesture of disgust.

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[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

It would be a disgrace if she doesn't come top 3 AT LEAST.

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[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i do not recall the song at all.

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[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

me either, see ymof "not really impinging" thing...

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[plumsbitch.livejournal.com]

I think you will be QUITE RIGHT to do so.

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[katstevens.livejournal.com]

OK I've ticked now, are ye happy?

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[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Very :)