Don't Shoot Me Santa Claus

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I just found this on the excellent Radio 1 Chartblog and it is actually terrifying. Brandon and his Killers do battle with Father Christmas - with added finger puppets.

A few videos for yr sunday

[credoimprobus]

Have we talked about Brick & Lace yet? I don't know how this one's doing in the UK, but it's BLOWING UP (with good reason!) up here in the frozen north. Nothing like a belated summer jam to make the arrival of winter a little less bleak!

N-Dubz came up in the Year in Pop poll about a month back; this is an older offering of theirs, from last year, and absolutely hooktastic. (I like it rather better without the visuals, mind, which makes it a good thing I first heard it over webcast!)

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And in closing, confession time: I've been tempted to start some sort of Guide to Finnish Pop post series over here almost since I joined (read: way back in the comm's diaper days), but have consistently been too much of a wuss/too lazy. I'm finally getting to the point where I may actually get off my ass about it, though, so here's a taster:

Say hello to Ninja Sarasalo, model-turned-popstar. She doesn't sing all that well, and her album is pretty poor, but it's got a few real gems on it -- particularly in cases where the production makes her weaknesses work in her favour. Her debut single was one of those; it also had a video that ended up nominated for the official Finnish music video awards going for it.

More of this sort of thing wanted, Y/N?


[Edit: and I know what day of the week it is honestly! Appearances in spite.]

Poptimists Poll 07: TRACKS OF THE YEAR POLL

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Naturally I am posting this on a Sunday evening when a lot of people are out at a FEAST.

But luckily this is the easy kind of orgafun which requires very little orga at all so I can repeat these instructions on ANY POPTIMISTS POST EVER really.

Anyway, what I want you to do is:

1. List your ten favourite tracks of the year in order.
2. Send them to leagueofpop@gmail.com

That's leagueofpop@gmail.com in a handy email link.

They don't have to have been singles, they don't have to be "pop", I'm not going to be really strict about the 2007 thing either. Just send me the 10 tracks.

They will be scored - naturally - on Eurovision basis (12-10-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1), but you don't have to think about that at all.

JUST SEND ME THE LIST OF TRACKS OK.

Deadline is New Year's Eve and I'll run a countdown in the new year.

Any questions?