THE BEST POP STAR OF ALL TIME: Preliminary Round

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Right, thankyou all for yr nominations in the Poptimists Birthday Poll. Before the poll can start PROPERLY tomorrow, we need to whittle down some of the ALSO-RANS. Eight of these will go through to face the Big Guns in round 1 proper of the AMAZING BEST POP STAR EVER KNOCKOUT POLL. Get ready to spend the rest of the week arguing what makes a great pop star - music? style? attitude? looks? contemporary relevance? indieness? YOU NAME IT! YOU VOTE FOR IT!

Caution: what lies under the cut is BIG because of photos.


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Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Well, he's in there now!

Sure sure he was the Don at one point, but how much should reputation count for? (OK I have gone and put "of all time" in the poll title which may sway the weaker-willed Poptimists to use some kind of fundamentally ANTI-POP criteria...)

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

Well, the "of all time" did swing it just a little bit!

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

"that Serge Gainsbourg lost it big time after 1991"

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

well let's not muck about. Alban has at least THREE brilliant songs but Jacko has THIRTY THREE no matter how crap the depths he plumbed.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I would rather have MJ erased from my collection than Dr A - he has simply given me more pleasure, at least in the last 2 years.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

counting all the billie jean and don't stop samples?

i would rather have MJ the man erased from my memories, but there is a great wedge of ace MJ choons that i'd rather keep for the world.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yeah, counting those! I listen loads to the good Doctor. The Brian Laro cover of "Don't Stop" is the Jacko-related thing I've liked most recently, and SWV's "Human Nature". Billie Jean and Beat It I view with gratitude and relief for the DJing holes they've got me out of, but I've squeezed the joy out of them.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

but if this poll is ALL TIME you have to consider how you used to feel about Jacko stuff, don't you?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

No, cos you - or I - can interpret it as "all time viewed at the moment of ticky" not "all time as experienced by the ticker"