The History Of Pop Part 49 aka Listen to Iron Maiden baby with me

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

A very mixed bag, Now 49 - for every Destiny's Child making a (somewhat delayed) bow in a Now poll, there's a Dido. For every Mis-Teeq, a Marti Pellow. A number of strong candidates should make for an intriguing poll.

The last Now poll was the closest for AGES, with Gorillaz finally beating Shaggy and Nelly F by one vote - "Clint Eastwood" is the lowest-rated winner ever, which makes up slightly for it being the first one I don't actually like.


[Poll #740592]


THE TICKNESS

Comments

Re: let us pause to recall the best middle eight ever, a masterclass of snootiness

[koganbot]

Ashlee does something like this - "I'm bigger than that" - on "Boyfriend," and it really really bugs me, because she's lying and saying she's rising above something when quite obviously she's bitching out Lindsay and isn't rising above anything. I don't mind her bitching out Lindsay, but I do mind her being a hypocrite and pretending that she's above the bitchery. If you're gonna bitch, bitch, don't get all pious about it. Ashlee, you're better than that.

Funny story. Kara DioGuardi told an interviewer that when she was working with Lindsay on A Little More Personal (Raw) "Boyfriend" came out, and Lindsay was so incensed that she wanted to do an answer song, and Kara spent a lot of time telling her to put it behind her and talking her out of it. Of course, Kara was one of Ashlee's co-writers on "Boyfriend."

Re: let us pause to recall the best middle eight ever, a masterclass of snootiness

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

HAHA OMG that's AMAZING! Did Lindsay know this?! I assume she must have done but then Lindsay + coke does not necessarily = best awareness of who the people around you are.

False piety suits Beyoncé more because she so rarely tries to be a sympathetic narrator, and this is exactly her appeal (whereas I think, from what I've heard of Ashlee, that she wants the listener to empathise with her), this single-minded focus on Having Her Cake And Eating It (And Rubbing Your Nose In Your Lack Of Cake). With Beyoncé there is this sense that anything you can say about her, she will always always be better than that, and confident in this quality.

Of course, ironically these lines are (I think) sung by Kelly, who is not better than anything...

Re: let us pause to recall the best middle eight ever, a masterclass of snootiness

[koganbot]

First time through I read this as "Having Her Coke And Eating It."

Re: let us pause to recall the best middle eight ever, a masterclass of snootiness

[koganbot]

And, needless to say, Rubbing Your Nose In Lack Of Coke.