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

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Sledge vs Prince = toughest choice yet.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Seedings:

Kelly C is 21, Jacko is 13, Prince is 29. (Missy was 5, incidentally).

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Kelis vs Kelly: SO BORED of Milkshake now, its aloof sexiness has mulched into botherd drabness for me. Kelly sounds more alive with every play.

Jacko vs MIA: Not even a contest - Jacko sounds so hungry on this.

Prince vs Sledge: Very tough - not my favourite Sledge track, not my favourite Prince. I went for Sledge as R Beret is a bit too power-pop (does that even make sense?)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Kel v Kel: I feel like Tom but the other way round! 'Milkshake' has had its time off, I feel that now is its year to return as a dancefloor force, an old classic which everybody loves. Give SUBG another year or so

MIA surprisingly easy over Jacko - this isn't my favourite MJ by quite a way, and hasn't dated all that well, whereas MIA still, even after everything, sounds a bit like the future

Sledge because Prince has been repped for enough, and will be repped for well in the future.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

These were all no brainers: Kelis, MJ and Sister Sledge. Sorry to see "Galang" knocked out, but the idea that "Don't Stop..." hasn't dated well is :o levels of mentalism.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I do like SUBG but listening to the Neptunesy tracks on the nu Gweng album has made me realise how much better Kelis was at the gloopy-gloopy-bing! stuff.

The question is

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

Just what sort of beret was it exactly

Confession

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

I can't even remember how Raspberry Beret goes and I still voted for it to try and knock We Are Family out of the running.

Which is a shame as I ended up voting against all the Prince songs I really like, albeit with a heavy heart.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

I'm genuinely disappointed by the results of the last round (specifically, "1999" making it and "When Doves Cry" not making it).

This was a tough round.

1. "Since U Been Gone" holds up better and was more influential and is just a genuinely better song. Fairly easy tick over "Milkshake" tho that is a great song too.
2. "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough", easy.
3. V. tough choice here, but I went with "We are Family" over one of my less favorite Prince singles of the 80s.

Eek

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The umpire might have to step in and stop the second bout here. Poor MIA.

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

I couldn't vote in 2 or 3, as I've not heard 75% of the songs.

Kelly should be thrashing Kelis.

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

The first one was a tough one for me - I love Kelis, but this is far from my favourite of hers, so Kelly edged it. Michael Jackson was an easy winner. I hesitated over the last one thanks to memories of a private preview a dancer once gave me of her new routine to Raspberry Beret, but really when it comes to music almost no one can compete with Chic, for me, even Prince.