Cortney Tidwell Remix

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Yesterday freakytigger suggested someone make a video for the Ewan Pearson mix of Cortney Tidwell's 'Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up' as it did not have a YouTube presence. So I did! And now it does!

Extracted the track from Poptimix 07 so it's not the full length version. Visuals come from John Halas' 1981 animation 'Dilemma'.

Après moi le duckfood

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Over on ilX I decided not to continue Rolling Teenpop into 2008; I left the decision as to what to do to others; three relevant threads have emerged:

Rolling UK Pop/Chart/"They're The New Scouting For Girls!!!" Thread 2008, started by skillextric and featuring stevem78 and the long-lost-to-ilX umlauts as well as, actual, you know, commentary on the music and stuff.

rolling US charts 2008/talk about "pop" here, which has had posts by justfanoe and the admirable Tim F. and some other lightbulbs of various degrees of brightness.

Rolling Debutante Bubblegum Teenpop Thread 2008, started by mcatzilut and featuring justfanoe and no one else so far, possibly because Mordy forgot to link it from the old thread.

Poptimists Top 40 Of 2007 Part 2

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( Nos.32-25 )

In a fit of work repulsion yesterday I wrote out the whole thing so you may well get another chunk of poll this afternoon and then I'll finish it tomorrow. Speculation etc all welcome.

The official top 20 biggest-selling singles of 2007 in the UK

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The official top 20 biggest-selling singles of 2007 in the UK:

1. Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
2. Rihanna ft. Jay-Z - Umbrella
3. Mika - Grace Kelly
4. Leon Jackson - When You Believe
5. Take That - Rule The World
6. Sugababes - About You Now
7. Timbaland ft. Keri Hilson & DOE - The Way I Are
8. The Proclaimers ft. Brian Potter & Andy Pipkin - (I'm Gonna Be) 500 Miles
9. Mark Ronson ft. Amy Winehouse - Valerie
10. Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby
11. The Fray - How To Save A Life
12. Beyonce & Shakira - Beautiful Liar
13. Gwen Stefani ft. Akon - The Sweet Escape
14. Plain White T's - Hey There Delilah
15. Sean Kingston - Beautiful Girls
16. Timbaland ft. One Republic - Apologize
17. Kate Nash - Foundations
18. Take That - Shine
19. Kanye West - Stronger
20. Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend

The only real conlusion I've drawn is just how many of these I find aren't great but require far too much effort to really hate. In a 'which of these are any downright horrible at all' poll I could only tick 3 or 4, if that, but otoh there's only 3 or 4 here I think are really good. So many songs seem to have qualities I both like and despise whether it's 'Ruby' or 'Foundations' or 'Bleeding Love' or 'Beautiful Girls', which at least bodes well for freakytigger's proposed blog on 'songs you almost like but have some problem with' perhaps.

'With Every Heartbeat' was 24th btw, one place below 'Starz In Their Eyez' bah

Troglodytes Unyte

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Longtime ILMer Matt Cibula has started up a site called Cave 17, with contributors from Stylus and Pfork and ILM, plus me and a few other Poptimists (I think anthonyeaston will be posting there). I just wrote my first post, which extended some of my year-end pop thots.

Right now the format is pretty much freeform, with movies and music and sports and books (kind of like an American FreakyTrigger?). You should check it out!

Carry on with the list-revealing...