A Year In Pop: 1

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

A what in who? This is the first of a series of polls replacing the mighty stevem78's monthly Top 40 polls.

The Top 40 polls were an grebt idea because they put the focus on NEW pop, unlike the canons, P&Js, Now polls etc. But they were by all accounts a hassle to do and response was never great, partly because there were SO MANY songs to deal with.

By doing them weekly (hear the method in the madness) we have a much smaller number of songs to pick, so there's more chance of individual songs getting discussion time, and also more chance of people who haven't heard the new goodies hearing them via YSIs or YouTube or what have you. (To save my time and sanity I will leave it up to commenters to hunt these down).

Of course I will be keeping track of the scores on these!

[Poll #904685]

What about teh AMAZING NEW CHART REVOLUTION then? My arbitrary rule is that re-releases will be included but only if they weren't in Steve's polls, which I think rules out all of this week's.

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The Jojo song is poor.

Eric and his Prids is a decent effort but it is lacking oomph somehow - the video makes up for it tho. Save the planet, kids!

what madness is this!

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

The JoJo song is excellent! Not as good as 'Leave (Get Out)' [but then very little is] but since it's pretty much a carbon copy of it, it still satisfies.

And the Eric Prickz song is k-rub.

Re: JoJo

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

"Too Little..." has grown on me a bit (it has a nice hook, I guess), but I'm still closer to Kat's view on it. I have the album, which is also a disappointment :( The one (1) great song on it is "Like That".

[maura.livejournal.com]

I have to agree with the thumbs-down on JoJo. The way her voice is recorded/manipulated conjures the image of a bright, sweaty block of Velveeta in my head.