Jop Tournament - Round 1, Fites 1-4

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Arduous qualifiers completed, it's now time for the songs that made it through to get horrifically mangled in the tournament proper.

One fite, one vote.


[Poll #916949]


Coming up - Pulp, Kelis, Missy, Kelly Clarkson, MORE Prince...

Comments

Re: Surprised by the strength of "Temptation"

[koganbot]

The reason that freestyle and hi-NRG and Eurodance don't show up in the Jop polls is that the rock-critic quasi-intelligentsia (of which Poptimists is a part) as a class tends not to go for that stuff. You'd think that people who like Madge and the PSBs would therefore investigate the sources of that music (weren't the PSBs originally under contract to Bobby O?), just as way back in the day Stones fans searched for Marvin Gaye and Bobby Womack and Don Covay and Chuck Berry and Robert Johnson and Slim Harpo.

Re: Surprised by the strength of "Temptation"

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Well how many Stones fans investigated those sources? Was it a big part of being a Stones fan?

On ILM the people who like the PSBs and Madonna do indeed go back and check out the stuff they drew from - Poptimists is definitely part of the rockcrit intelligentsia but it's also more casual in its fandom.

Plus I think part of the appeal of dance-pop is the idea (or illusion) of live-for-the-moment fun it offers, so the roots of it get guiltlessly ignored.