Jop Tournament Qualifiers 7

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The penultimate qualifying groups - not much more to say other than go and vote in them!

Winners of the fifth batch include: Eminem's "Real Slim Shady" in the closest qualifying group ever (top vote - 15, bottom vote - 12); Kelis trouncing the opposition; "Vogue" squeaking past Chic, and the Spice Girls enjoying a late surge to take them past Gwen and Portishead.


[Poll #913748]


Tomorrow's final groups include three Jop poll winners, erm and some other stuff.

Comments

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

mainly the second one for me

'little red corvette' is a great song but not one of my favourite Princ singles oddly.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I think it is my real actual Favourite Prince Single, at least at the moment. But despite this I would be oddly cheered by a victory for the twisted-pants duo, it would prove something, somehow.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

thinking about 'Little Red Corvette' as a title has got me wondering about using brand names in song titles. i'd like to talk about this more (probably on ILX). i wonder if it'd be something interesting for the radio show too.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

No talk about it here or on FT!

It's an interesting topic.

suggested method

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

1) think of and list songs with brands in the title
2) try and find the earliest examples of the phenomenon in the process
3) focus on the sillier or more unusual examples (if taking it to radio)
4) draw conclusions (how/when is it good/bad etc.)
5) do a poll to see which ones were most successful or are best as songs (poptimists only)

Cadillacs not on 22s, or the radio

[koganbot]

Back in '55, BBC wouldn't play Chuck Berry's "Maybellene" 'cause the mention of a Cadillac and a V-8 Ford violated BBC's no-endorsements policy, hence a delay in the triumph of rock 'n' roll in Britain.

Re: Cadillacs not on 22s, or the radio

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

that's the kind of thing i'm interested in, partly because presumably at that point the idea of mentioning the brand in the title hadn't come through yet?

it's as if mentioning a brand in your verses is more acceptable than putting it in the title. the more i think about it the more i wonder if Prince really pushed something through there (there could be so many earlier instances tho, i just can't think of them at the mo).

it never occurred to me that Corvette had a previous association tho (again just because I never thought about it and hadn't come across the word in any other context other than a type of American sports car) as a type of boat. so song titles featuring an ORIGINAL brand name would perhaps be even more interesting to look at and focus on.

Re: Cadillacs not on 22s, or the radio

[koganbot]

Early '60s there were a whole series of cars and motorbikes in music (including the Storey Sisters great, generic "Bad Motorcycle," with the great line "He's a bad motorcycle," i.e., a good-bad sexy boy who rides a motorcycle), Hondas and Cobras and GTOs making it into song titles. I doubt that there were any endorsement deals or payoffs, since the records were piggybacking on the youth popularity of the automobiles rather than vice versa (or a symbiosis, anyway).