The Historiography of Pop Part 6 aka The Sweet Sixteen

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Sixteen songs remain, eight will go through to the quarter-final polls.

This poll will be open till Wednesday morning. What I'd like for the next round is for the winning eight songs to get 50 words each from an advocate (i.e one of YOU LOT) saying why it should be the overall WINNAR. So if you fancy doing this, let me know.


[Poll #800734]


LET BATTLE BEGIN!

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I would like to do a blurb please!

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Final 16 video breakdown:

Relax: normal night out in Liverpool circa 1981. Laugh-a-minute bukkake symbolism
All The Things She Said: St Trinian's hen night, HBO style
Music Sounds Better With You: Should have been a Belle and Sebastian video.
Always On My Mind: Joss Ackland's spunky backseat
Together In Electric Dreams: MANNEQUIN!!!!
Toxic: RIP Sexually Attractive Britney, 1999-2004. To live in the minds of those you loved is never to have died at all.
Baby One More Time: ICONIC!
Killer: Early 90s video by the numbers, revolving heads and wacky weird colour effects and all.
Running Up That Hill: Kate dry humps a ballet dancer
Love Machine: Flair cocktail bartenders always get the girl. Fact.
Can't Get You Out Of My Head: FUTURISTIC!
Justified And Ancient: Dancing tribesmen, Tammy Wynette in a crown, visuals reminiscent of Night Trap on the Mega CD
Pump Up The Volume: Cost about 14p to make
Maneater: It's a big dog!
Freak Like Me: "Y'all invited to a party. There's gonna be dancing, fucking, and fighting" "How many people are gonna be there?" "Just me and you"
Common People: He's literally in a supermarket! Hilarious.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

i can do a blurb!

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

I'll blurb Always on My Mind if it makes it, if you like!

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Blimey three of these are virtually neck and neck!

[juror8.livejournal.com]

On the off chance that "Love Machine" survives, I'll take it, btw.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Blimey, this has got proper tricky now.

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

I voted for Common People, but I'm happy to see it's not romping its poll for once.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

I can do: "All The Things She Said" "Always On My Mind" "Together In Electric Dreams" "Toxic" "Justified And Ancient" "Pump Up The Volume" "Freak Like Me" "Common People"

there'll be tears before bedtime:

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Running up that Hill vs Love Machine... 50%/50%

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I'll do a blurb - any song is fine.

Glad to see T Horn vs T Horn productions. Surely it should be Britney vs Britney in the next round if both get thru.

[anthonyeaston.livejournal.com]

if its not too late, i will do it

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i'd like to blurb that tatu fnar fnar

[koganbot]

"'Pump Up The Volume' was famous for being stuck together from other songs and this was postmodern and made us question creativity. Then a judge said that these things weren't good so we had to stop them but 'Pump Up The Volume' had never harmed anyone so we didn't stop."

(exactly 50 words)

Stardust...

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

...clearly aren't going to win their bout, but I wrote the blurb anyway for PRACTISE:


House maestros Stardust seemed to come out of nowhere with this track in the summer of 1998, and once arrived it just would not leave. In fact it was so catchy that Braxe and co never bothered doing anything together ever again, and stayed up on their little silver cloud returning model aeroplanes to small French children. Deceptively simple but never boring, it remains an ageless dance classic. Fact Of The Day: Thom Bangalter's dad wrote D.I.S.C.O!