The History Of Pop Part 55 aka Now, usually I don't do this, but....

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

tATu won the Now 54 poll with Girls Alound a close second. Both groups are in it this time, as are Justin, R Kelly and 50 Cent - and the Fast Food Rockers! "Oh, 2003paws", as we wouldn't have said in 2003.

Lots to talk about here, so why don't we get on with it?


[Poll #763194]


TICKNITION (REMIX)

Comments

Re: Fiddy

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

but fiddy is such a dreadfully lazy rapper, i agree the production ("in da club" in particular) is super excellent but then his little weedy expressionless drone appears over the top and almost ruins a topclass track, and frankly most of his backing tracks have been significantly worse than this...

Re: Fiddy

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I like his rapping! Of course it doesn't have any character or anything in it, but it's the equivalent of Britney's singing - it is so penumatic and robotic it barely sounds human, it sounds like it has been CONSTRUCTED in a FACTORY rather than coming from vocal cords.

Re: Fiddy

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

50 fans usually cite some neat little couplet buried in his songs as evidence of his greatness. as with Tupac this is often actually fair enough altho 50 can't really say anything Tupac (or indeed Biggie) already said nor say it better.

Re: Fiddy

[cis.livejournal.com]

I think his laziness is his charm! a lot of his best tracks, all he does is repeat mc cliches - 'just a lil bit' is best for this, he seems to cycle through practically all of them, with a heard-it-all-before air, gettin crunk in the club, i'm off the chaiiiin, he sneers, flippant and bored and phoning-it-in, and that's when it works best. His strength is in being the generic, you know?

Mind you, too much of it and you end up with, like, the talent-black-hole that is Lloyd Banks.

Re: Fiddy

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

people said this about Ma$e too.

Re: Fiddy

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

but Ma$e had much zippier production than 50 much of the time. TAKE HITS FROM THE 80S, BUT DO IT SOUND SO CRAZY?

Re: Fiddy

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

haha whose point was this originally?

cisconnectbot etc

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

"Fiddy is the Explosions In The Sky of etc"