Academy of Pop: exam season

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Paper A: General Paper

14th August 2006

Candidates have all day to answer the following question.

1. 'It's better to burn out than to fade away'. Discuss.

The Historiography of Pop part 1 aka Then vs NOW.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

While we prepare the amazing follow-up to the Now polls series (ahem), we will close the book on them with a series of pollfites to work out which of our 64 victors is actually the best.

A very simple format - just tick the song you like best in each question. Rather than do it randomly, or just 2 by 2, each fight is a winner from NOWs 1-32 against one from NOWs 33-64, giving us a chance to think about the ways pop has changed.

Due to LJ poll limitations we'll be doing this initial batch in three chunks.

( Now Poll Showdown )

ROAR

The next 11 tomorrow.

(and yes I know I need to do the pop star poll too - the picture components in that make it less office-safe tho so I'll do it at home)

Because of You I Wanna Be Your Dog

[koganbot]

OK, I'm antsy because with ilX on hiatus I can't post to the teenpop thread, so here, exsuperspecially for you on Poptimists, here is like holy fucking shit YOU MUST WATCH THESE CONCERT CLIPS OF KELLY CLARKSON'S "MAYBE" she is so screamingly emotively Kellily her wailing screaming self:

Kelly Clarkson's "Maybe" live with great camera shots though sound is a bit thin

Kelly Clarkson's "Maybe" live from Tampa, stronger sound, some distortion when it goes to three-chord blazes at the end