Jop Tournament Round 1.9

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The last 8 contenders for your polling pleasure.


[Poll #923803]


All polls still open until after the weekend, so if you've missed any you can go back and tick, (though I've not really tagged any of them, sorry!)

Comments

[koganbot]

"Hill" vs. "Call Me": The battle is between k8's finishing-school vocals that you lot inexplicably don't find irritating vs. Blondie/Moroder being uncharacteristically heavy and clompy. Was thinking of abstaining in protest, but that's no fun, so "Hill" gets ticked for its tune.

"Groove" is not altogether nonoverbearing itself, but "Nothing"... I don't know... manages to combine "grating" and "wimpy," no mean feat, and I don't always use those terms as noncompliments... um, I prefer "Groove" to silence while I sometimes prefer silence to Sinead, so "Groove" tick.

"West End Girls": to complain that this isn't as cluttered and ebullient as real disco isn't to miss the point but rather to not like the point all that much, but nonetheless this is haunting and beautiful and forceful and witty (though wish it were, like, funny rather than just witty); Utah Saints "Something Good" is rousing and all that and I'd gladly have ticked it vs. k8 or "Call Me" but not vs. the Pet vets. (Btw, the New Orleans basketball team, the Jazz, moved to Utah and became the Utah Jazz, but the New Orleans football team, the Saints, didn't move to Utah or become the Utah Saints.)

"Toxic" is brilliant and hilarious and sexy, though I'm puzzled that this was Poptimists' favorite Britney in the Now poll, as Brit's done warmer stuff that's just as brilly, hilly, and sexy. "Sweet Dreams"' words are kinda full of shit in their cynicism, and I'd say I hate Annie's fake hardness except in fact her underlying heat makes the hardness really really really sexy, as if you just know that warmth is going to overflow in her if you find the right touch. And my knowing that this notorious woman also loves "Sweet Dreams" makes the tickin' easy.