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

Re: 10

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Tom has (deliberately) been vague about what this Poll is about.

FWIW though I have taken it to be about personality, enviability and all-round star quality (in a pop music context) not about no. of good records made.

Re: 10

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly - as usual with me "finding out the criteria people use" is as interesting as "the decisions people take using them" :)

Re: 10

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

well people can use whatever criteris they want, presumably.

you could argue that ODB is a better pop star than Kelis for whatever reason but i'm choosing to stick to a conventional inclination that Kelis has more good pop songs than ODB.