The History Of Pop Part 56 aka My texture is the best fur, of chinchilla

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

For the second Now running, Girls Aloud find themselves in second place, this time by one vote to Justin Timberlake's "Cry Me A River". They get a third shot in the Now 56 poll, covering the end of 2003 - and Justin's back too, though it may well be that neither of them wins it.

Good times, bad times? You decide.


[Poll #765906]


(Also go and nominate for the the birthday poll if you haven't already...)

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

As far as I can see it's the records with 'cred' (which is a v nebulous concept - cred with whom? I can think of more types of music fan for whom Lumidee would be disposable and have no cred than the reverse) which don't get ticks!

I'm 99% certain that if silly Emma had credited 'Maybe' to Emma Bunton, it would have had a v good showing.

I don't really like 'Hold On Me' though I did like the video a lot. I have antipathy towards the Ellis-Bextor woman generally. Javine is great though this is probably her worst solo single!

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

"Surrender" is no way Javine's worst solo single. Have you forgotten a little thing called "Touch My Fire"?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I feel a bit bad about Emma Bunton, because the NOW site DID credit it to "Emma Bunton", and I thought, "Hold on I'm sure she ws just Emma at this point", and reacted accordingly. I do think I ticked it though.

And Phixx was indeed grebt!

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

2003-2004 was a great time for low-selling boybands putting out AMAZING pop singles. "Hold On Me", "Hip To Hip" and "Dragostea Din Tei" probably being the holy troika.

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

Except obv "DDT" went on to sell a lot of copies even though they'd never been popular beforehand and V and Phixx got dumped, in Phixx's case because they only had one good song.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

'Touch My Fire' was really quite good though.

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

No it wasn't. It didn't deserve to do quite as badly as it did in The Eurovision, but it in no way deserved to be anywhere near the winner's circle.