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]

(On the other hand, Beyoncé's hypocrisy is a welcome relief in the Destiny's Child catalog 'cause for once she's an alive, petulant, jerk of an adolescent rather than a cold sophisticate.)

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

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Haha "x-post", though I love most of the DC catalogue.

I rarely try to articulate what it is I love about DC's pettiness, piety, hypocrisy and snootiness because that Village Voice rvw of Survivor did it so well - of course the rvw then concluded that this was why the album failed, rather than why it was one of the most impressive pop documents of the century so far (and still not as good as TWOTW)!

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

[koganbot]

Oh, I like the DC catalog fine, but most of it tends to register as "fun" ("Jumpin Jumpin" still gets play on Radio Disney), whereas "Survivor" is the one I'm feeling.