Pop Star Showdown: FITES 1 and 2

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I realised this morning that because I won't be on the web tomorrow there is zero chance of the Ultimate Pop Star Showdown actually finishing on Friday, so instead of overwhelming you with polls I'll be putting the pop fights out a couple at a time and make this a slightly longer term bit of orgafun.

Anyway the preliminary round is over and the results are in:

KATE BUSH beat Celeste.
SERGE GAINSBOURG beat Joan Jett.
CHER beat Paris Hilton.
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD beat Phil Oakey.
NENEH CHERRY beat Kelly Clarkson.
BILL DRUMMOND beat H Steps.
MICHAEL JACKSON beat Dr Alban.
LILY ALLEN beat Thom Yorke.

We'll be meeting all of those qualifiers again - in fact we'll be meeting two in the poll under this very cut, along with two stars who have actually teamed up on the same (very good indeed) record! Which will make it through to round two? You decide!


[Poll #766696]

Comments

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

It's a Poptimist Knockout!

BIG PHIL WZ ROBBED :(

[friedslice.livejournal.com]

I think my dithering over Dusty/Phil prevented me from voting in the prelim.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The stuff about the gurls being the key was CALLOW REVISIONISM - where were the HL girls on "The needle was one micron long - AND WEIGHED MORE THAN SATURN". And where were they on The Lebanon???

(ok they are somewhere on The Lebanon).

One day Phil will have justice!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

These fights seem fairly clear-cut. I am not surprised Dusty is beating Cher - though I voted for Cher because I love "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves" so much.

But ODB shouldn't be being so trounced by Kelis, surely?

[zenith.livejournal.com]

Whether he should or should not be, he was always going to be on Poptimists, no?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Maybe - BUT I think this is an area where poptimists should examine itself a bit more!

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

is ODB really that good on his own tho?

i don't really know any of his other solo singles i must confess. i never really bothered with Wu-Tang solo albums even tho they all seemed to get good reviews every time.

Kelis has so many good singles this IS a clear victory as far as i'm concerned.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I'm not doing it on 'count of good singles', in that case The Beatles beat Kelis and plainly none of them do.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I have a CD best-of ODB, but I cannot remember anything by him apart from the duet! Whereas I can sing several Kelis hits.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

BOTHERD about both these fites tbh

Only Cher is really a STAR out of these four, and more the Hollywood Boulevard sort than the [whatever the pop equiv. of HB is] sort.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

I'll be putting the pop fights out a couple at a time and make this a slightly longer term bit of orgafun.

and then can we do the WORST po star ever, ifyouknowwhatimean ;)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yes, MAYBE WE CAN.

[fathands.livejournal.com]

Oh, so the first picture thing was pick one of two? I just ticked whichever I liked. It wasn't very clear.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yes sorry! I fvcked up the layout.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Well done Lily, I knew you could do it.

*hails Lily as she wipes Sir Thomas of York's blood from her trusty pop blade*

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

She has a tougher outing in this round, I have to warn you.

AGAIN! OUTRAGE

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

ROBBED IN THE FIRST ROUND AGAIN

NOT A HAPPY HEIRESS

I'MMA SET TINKERBELL ON YOU ALL

Theorizing

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Like freakytigger I am kind of going on instinct on these, but if I wanted to tease out some "whys," a couple of thoughts based on these matches.

+ Longer career > shorter career unless perhaps bonus points for tragic mishaps
+ Top flight pop stars need at least a couple of chart smashing hit singles.
+ more to come in later weeks)

ODB just doesn't seem like a very good popstar to me, despite being tabloid fodder. I can't think of any massive ODB singles (possibly my bad), nor can I imagine one coming along. He's always going to be "featuring ODB" on somebody else's single, at best.

Re: Theorizing

[nicolars.livejournal.com]

Longer career > shorter career unless perhaps bonus points for tragic mishaps

I don't know, I've always liked the idea of the pop star who has a couple of fantastic singles and then disappears down the dumper, never to be heard from again. A lot of pop stars become too workmanlike the longer they go on, even if they still manage the occasional great single.

2 days away and the world goes to pot

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

Cher is a million times better than Dusty!

Re: 2 days away and the world goes to pot

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I have to think this is a UK vs. US thing. She could be Cilia Black for all I could tell. She really occupies next to no space as an entity in my pop consciousness, despite a couple of great songs.

It gets worse

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

Neneh Cherry beats Kelly Clarkson? WTF?

Who is Bill Drummond and how'd he beat H??

Re: It gets worse

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

oh that bloke from KLF, you've all lost it.

Re: It gets worse

[zenith.livejournal.com]

I am still upset that Neneh and Kelly C were put up against each other since they were the two best pop stars of everyone on that list. Perhaps one day this injustice will be overturned. And perhaps they will take the World Cup off Italy and give it to Zidane.

Re: It gets worse

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Kelly C will never do owt as good as Buffalo Stance.