The Friday Canon: DESTINY'S CHILD PLUS
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DC must rank as one of the most tumultuous groups in recent pop history! All you need to know about ver Child is that
They need no further introduction from me though I feel I must point out that their wikipedia entry is flagged as containing "weasel words", whatever those might be. To bump up the tick factor for today's canon I've included all the UK solo singles as well. You get NINE picks over the 29 songs below.
[Poll #923828]
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SO HARD
Date: 2007-02-09 12:56 pm (UTC)'Me Myself And I' is the only solo Beyoncé I don't like.
Kelly and LeToya don't get much singles love from me (apart from lovely tinkly 'Dilemma') but this is counterbalanced by the fact that some of LeToya's album tracks ('All Eyes On Me', 'Gangsta Grillz', 'What Love Can Do') are up there with the best of what I've ticked, as is the as-yet-unreleased lead single from Kelly's still-delayed second album, 'Gotsta Go'.
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Date: 2007-02-09 05:25 pm (UTC)Wikipedia's got a good entry about the Billboard Hot 100. The Billboard singles chart combines singles sales and downloads and airplay using some formula that they probably readjust periodically; in December 1998 they began counting songs on their chart even when their was no physical single. (Wikipedia gives an interesting list of massive hits before then that weren't counted owing to there being no physical single: 1995 The Rembrandts "I’ll Be There For You" (number one for eight weeks); 1996 No Doubt "Don’t Speak" (number one for sixteen weeks); 1997 Sugar Ray "Fly" (number one for six weeks); 1997 The Cardigans "Lovefool" (number two for eight weeks); 1998 Natalie Imbruglia "Torn" (number one for eleven weeks); 1998 Goo Goo Dolls "Iris" (number one for eighteen weeks). By "number one" they mean number one on the airplay chart.
I think the Billboard system is better than the British, since it genuinely tries to gauge a song's actual popularity. Singles buyers don't represent the market as a whole. However, the British system does leave more openings for unknown bands to break out, though usually only unknowns that appeal to a particular type of audience: young people, usually indie, who will seek out singles.
In any event, "All Eyes" never charted.
Re: SO HARD
Date: 2007-02-09 05:31 pm (UTC)Singles buyers don't represent the market as a whole.
But surely they're a better (as in healthier) match than rotation minutes?
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Date: 2007-02-09 04:38 pm (UTC)Underrated DC singles
Date: 2007-02-09 01:01 pm (UTC)'Soldier' - DC cruise through ghetto in bling-bling limousine, rich girls coldly and unsympathetically casting their eyes around for a bit of rough. Sparse crunk'n'b beat really sets off their voices well, even - especially! - soft-voiced Michelle, who works as a great counterbalance to the harsh coldness.
'Get On The Bus' - maybe Timbaland's finest work outside of Missy and Aaliyah?
Also worthy of note despite not being in the poll is Beyoncé's cover of 'In Da Club', which is as explicit about the shark-eyed B persona we all know and love as she's gotten on her own - "if the ladies wanna hate me I just send 'em a bottle".
Re: Underrated DC singles
Date: 2007-02-09 01:04 pm (UTC)The reason I bought it is slightly less poptimist, i.e. I had just read an WIRE ARTICLE about Timbaland!
"Bug A Boo" seems not to be getting so much love.
Re: Underrated DC singles
Date: 2007-02-09 01:07 pm (UTC)Also listening to the lyrics closely I think it's not just about some pathetic ex, it is actually about being stalked, but DC never at any point consider being the victim - they treat the stalker like the pathetic little man he is.
Also, "even if the Pope said he liked you too"!
Re: Underrated DC singles
Date: 2007-02-09 01:23 pm (UTC)BUGABOO!
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Date: 2007-02-09 01:28 pm (UTC)First awareness of DC
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Date: 2007-02-09 02:23 pm (UTC)Get on t'bus
Date: 2007-02-09 01:47 pm (UTC)Re: Get on t'bus
Date: 2007-02-09 02:22 pm (UTC)Crazy in Love...
Date: 2007-02-09 01:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-09 02:13 pm (UTC)So it IS just me
Date: 2007-02-09 02:25 pm (UTC)Re: So it IS just me
Date: 2007-02-09 02:28 pm (UTC)This was crazy hard, and I'm sure you'll agree that "Survivor" is getting screwed here.
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Date: 2007-02-09 02:30 pm (UTC)1. "Irreplaceable"
2. "Survivor"
3. "03 Bonnie and Clyde"
4. "Say My Name"
5. "Bootylicious"
6. "Dilemma"
7. "Work It Out"
8. "Soldier"
9. "Crazy In Love"
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Date: 2007-02-09 02:33 pm (UTC)Also I hadn't really heard Bonnie And CLyde 03 before PM played it to me the other day! But it is awesome.
By the way, doing this poll obv inspired the INCREDIBLY WITTY subject header on my latest
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Date: 2007-02-09 02:39 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-02-09 02:41 pm (UTC)There's one missing:
Date: 2007-02-09 03:38 pm (UTC)Surely one of the most unlikely collaborations in history.
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Date: 2007-02-09 04:27 pm (UTC)"Bug A Boo": Incredible orchestral stabs.
"Survivor": Emotion gets the better of her, for once. My favorite, and the only one where the singing really makes me care; Beyoncé has a spectacular voice and is an excellent songwriter, but I don't warm to her sheen (though I appreciate it).
"Baby Boy": Twisting, rubber-tree vocals from Sean (never heard him better); the first time I heard this I was twisting into a rubber tree. My fave Bouncy track.
"Check On It": Beauty comes in bubbles.
I surmise that "Ring The Alarm" was not a single in Britain. (The one where she makes fun of her sheen, sort of.)
"Irreplaceable" has been number 1 for ten weeks in the U.S., which is astonishing in the new download era.
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Date: 2007-02-09 04:36 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-02-09 06:14 pm (UTC)Survivor - please explain!
Date: 2007-02-11 09:07 am (UTC)