POPFITES: The Saga Continues
Jul. 21st, 2006 11:47 am![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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poptimistsMore than halfway through the first round of Popfites, and with BOWIE and DAPHNE added to the ranks of winners, are we any closer to finding out what makes a great pop star? Perhaps the entrance of two of the BIG GUNS will help us, ranged against a bopping elf and a pop prankster - are there shocks in the offing?
[Poll #774747]
[Poll #774747]
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Date: 2006-07-21 11:03 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-07-21 11:34 am (UTC)First fite = titanic clash between two of the biggest pop stars ever (I guess you had to be there to get why Bolan is one of them).
Second fite = very one sided (in favour of Kylie).
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Date: 2006-07-21 11:52 am (UTC)If Bolan had lived and built the body of work that Madonna has, I expect I'd have voted for him.
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Date: 2006-07-21 11:06 am (UTC)I don't think Kylie is that great a pop star though.
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Date: 2006-07-21 11:30 am (UTC)it's hard to pin down why Kylie is good/bad. obv. she has good writers and producers behind her but so could anyone.
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Date: 2006-07-21 11:32 am (UTC)Drummond is surely too awkward to be the 'greatest pop star' but I'd vote for him in this match (and did).
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Date: 2006-07-21 11:43 am (UTC)You could of course do CLIFF CANON! On a day when you've got, like, no work at all to do.
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Date: 2006-07-21 11:42 am (UTC)Kylie's appeal is she's the ultimate chameleon popstar, almost anything can be projected on her (see glitch-Kylie from the last album and getting a song like Slow to number one). Where she wins here and lesser popstars (eg Rachel Stevens) is she's unthreateningly charmismatic enough to be held in widespread public affection regardless of the quality of what she actually does. She's not the Princess of Pop - she's the Queen Mum of Pop!
I suppose there's that thing with her bottom as well.
Madonna is still making great records but is now A RUBBISH POP STAR. Still, heyday Madonna is still better than heyday Bolan (just!) Bolan vs Adam Ant, now that would've been interesting.
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Date: 2006-07-21 11:43 am (UTC)Queen Mum of Pop - this is what I mean by new Cliff!
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Date: 2006-07-21 11:45 am (UTC)I would like to venture that no one who isn't played at gay discos can be the best pop star ever.
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Date: 2006-07-21 11:27 am (UTC)HE INVENTED HOT GOBLINISM PPL!! also when he snag "ride a white swan" on 'lift-off with ayesha" (=best pop programme EVAH) he was ACTUALLY RIDING ON A GIANT PAPIER MACHE SWAN
he is kind of the ur-poptimist, as he (very successfully) dumped hippyoid folkism for the tennybopper market
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Date: 2006-07-21 11:41 am (UTC)I only 'got' this by proxy so to speak (via my older sister), but I knew exactlky what he meant.
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Date: 2006-07-21 11:49 am (UTC)I am very sorry he was drawn against Madonna in the first round, as he has no real chance of progressing.
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Date: 2006-07-21 12:02 pm (UTC)Agree about the unlucky draw - there should've been seedings dammit.