POPFITES! 13, 14, 15 and 16!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Because I was too busy to do a POPFITE yesterday you get FOUR clashes today, to finish off the first round. In previous fites JARVIS won a convincing victory over CHRIS LOWE, and MICK JAGGER won out against HANK WILLIAMS.

As for today's fights, words cannot do them justice (i.e. I am starving and need to upload this and go get a sammich).


[Poll #780065]


TICK POWER!

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Missy is way too "critically acclaimed" to be a pop star.

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

She looks like a pop star though!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Also, Britney v Freddie = one of the toughest ones yet!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yes, two giants of pop there.

I think Missy is a natural pop star, whose critical acclaim fails to detract from this.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I don't deny she is a pop star, but I think she would lose out to other pop stars who are more (for the want of a better word) vacuous, because their popness is such that it doesn't NEED critical acclaim etc!

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

This might be a better argument if she were against anyone other than MJ, whose Off The Wall is the only record that several amazonian tribes own.

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Those amazonian tribes are far more likely to own Dangerous or Bad than Off the Wall, my friend.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

What is poor Britney doing losing to terribel ghastly unlistenable Queen?!?!?!

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

What is poor Johnny doing losing to terrible ghastly unlistenable Kate Bush?

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

How can you call someone who (successfully!) hides from the press during five to ten year breaks between albums a pop star?!? I mean, I love Kate and all, but...

This smacks of Rockism!

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I voted with my conscience - Freddie being dead and all - but I too am surprised to see her way behind Freddie while the King Of Pop is TIED with Missy Elliot. That is absolutely ridiculous.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I try not to use these kind of arguments, but I think failing to get why Freddie Mercury is a great pop star betrays a basic failure to understand pop on any gut level.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i am quite surprised by this!

[zenith.livejournal.com]

I am abstaining from the last one because I genuinely cannot choose between them - very similar pros and cons...

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

hardest choice for me too! in the end kate is way too indie.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i picked Lydon but hard to say why (i prefer Kate's music)

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i couldn't decide on the music, but Kate is a bit of a prima donna and a proper "artist", probably quite rockist i bet too. lydon is a (gobby, entertaining) tit = better pop star.

(hang on that makes Keith Allen a popstar too. even more of a tit tho)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

He caused more of a RUCKUS!

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Ditto, but probably for different reasons.

I think K8 has rejected stardom so completely now that Lydon should get a walkover in theory. But while he's certainly a celebrity, it doesn't feel right to me to say that Lydon is a pop star.

Serge vs. Neneh

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Some of these fites are too difficult: I really have no personal experience of Gainsbourg (and I'm definitely older than a lot of people here). Neneh's profile is certainly higher than her career was long, but I still find it surprising that she's beating ANYONE.

Re: Serge vs. Neneh

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

By dubdobdee's laziness criteria: I can remember two Neneh Cherry songs (one of them FANTASTIC) and no Gainsbourg, so easy win.

Re: Serge vs. Neneh

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I think Serge is plainly a way, way better pop star than Neneh - it was the easiest of the four fites for me.

Re: Serge vs. Neneh

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i think Serge is too Indie.

Re: Serge vs. Neneh

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Aren't there any froggy types amongst us who can lobby for Serge?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

HANG ON OVER THE WEEKEND THESE POPFITES HAVE TURNED INTO TRAVESTIES!!!!

BRITNEY!!! MISSY!!!!!