Jop Tournament Round 1.3

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

These are the other polls that should have gone up yesterday - today's fites will be up this afternoon (at about 3, if you're desperate!)


[Poll #918380]


I won't finalise the results until this round is over, but it looks like both Madonna songs, "1999", "Temptation" and the Missy record are all through.

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Also 'Milkshake' may have been a big hit in America, but Kelis herself is a bigger popstar in the UK. And there's a definite Poptimist trend of voting for the popstar rather than the song, I think. Kelis has a solid record which makes her, overall, a Good Thing to UK poptimists; Kelly has one song, for all that UK poptimists are concerned.

(Not sure that the being less saturated thing works - I'm as saturated in sex-r&b as most American poptimists and I still think 'Milkshake' stands out.)

[koganbot]

Kelly has one song, for all that UK poptimists are concerned.

I suspect that this is correct, but the key phrase is "for all that UK poptimists are concerned." Fact is that Kelly and Kelis have each had four Top 10 hits in the U.K., and my guess is that if complete U.K. radio play numbers were added together, Kelly's "Because Of You" would far out-total "Since U Been Gone."

You're right that Kelis's visibility in the U.S. is smaller than Kelly's. Btw, I do think that U.K. Poptimists would quite like "Miss Independent," which reached #6 on the U.K. charts back in 2003. Very dance-pop.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Not to mention that "Miss Independent" was originally written for and partially co-written by Xtina. (like "Breakaway" with Avril). (Xtina didn't record "Miss Independent" herself because she decided to do "Fighter" instead at the last minute).