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 :(

[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?

[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 ;)

[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, MAYBE WE CAN.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yes sorry! I fvcked up the layout.

[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!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

HI DERE!!! (http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/nylpm/2000/06/duel-16/)

[zenith.livejournal.com]

Agreed!

[friedslice.livejournal.com]

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

[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]

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]

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

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

They shout "IN THE LEBANON" many times!!!

[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.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Well Kelis > ODB in the 'famous boyfriend' stakes. Police called due to noisy sex with one of world's greatest rap stars > smacked out freak nicked in parking lot.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

And if we're voting on sex appeal Kelis > ODB.

it is too late

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

POPTIMISTS HAVE ALREADY DISGRACED THEMSELVES x at least 6

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I think I'm just a bit bored with Kelis.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Reasons why ODB might beat Kelis then?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It just feels right. (This is my method on all of the votes).

Also I like the idea of disgusting tramps being pop stars (other than Tom Waits obv.)

[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.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

They certainly do not! 9 > 1

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

ODB is v g on his own ('Shimmy Shimmy Ya'!), but still not as good as Kelis.