A Year In Pop: 8

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The Kaiser Chiefs at #1, and a flutter of Fratelli action in the lower reaches of the chart - but we're all about the NEW! ENTRIES! here.

[Poll #937040]

OK, who is Mumm-Ra?

Comments

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Can anyone tell me why I should ilke Fergie? For no good reason, I gave her the benefit of the doubt here, even though I have had the pleasure of seeing the "Glamorous" video. (Was it here, even?)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Because she's currently the best pop star in the world at being completely mental without seeming as if she's trying too hard. If Gwen Stefani had made the Fergie album - and let's face it it's exactly the album which she should have made - people would be going nuts over it. If you don't like Gwen you won't like Fergie but if you don't like Gwen I am afraid that neither I nor anyone else can help, only sympathise.

Everything else this week is really bad.

[koganbot]

Well, what I like about "Glamorous" is Fergie's bedroom softness in the chorus, and I've never considered Gwen capable of bedroom softness. Fergie's dully pedantic on the verses, but the softness is invitingly there every time the verse lectures end, so an easy tick.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I think it's a poor choice for 3rd single. 'Here I Come' would have been great but NOES we have to have a down-tempo track after 2 bangers.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

It's my favourite song on the album!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Gwen comes close on 'The Real Thing' I think, though that's a more longing kind of vulnerability, and she'll never be able to do what Fergie does on 'Glamorous' because she can't really sing. But the shock softness beneath the krazy exterior is effective in much the same way.

Gwen in the bedroom

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

see No Doubt - "Underneath It All"

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I can't decide if I like Gwen but she keeps disappointing me, or I don't like Gwen and she keeps surprising me. In either case, I'm not sure that recommends Fergie to me, but I'll give her a listen anyway.

This is one of those "How did this happen when I wasn't looking?" things, because the last I remember the world was wishing a quick death on... crikey I can't even remember their name now... Black-Eyed Peas.