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

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.