A Year In Pop: Week 12

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Avril! Hilary! The UK charts turn teenpoptastic this week with a #3 debut for La Vigne (and a #29 cameo from Hilary). Meanwhile the comical relief Proclaimers thing is number one.

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*the Pink record was left off last week's poll. I am reasonably sure I have not forgotten any more!

Comments

Re: Year To Date Top 3

[koganbot]

Yeah, top 4 seems mediocre, though I ticked three of them (all but long bores). But, to be provocative, seems to me that Gossip, LCD, and Long Blondes are fairly clodhoppy stuff that are socially comfortable for poptimist types (whereas Tiny Dancers do clodhoppy stuff that nonpoptimists are socially comfortable with; track wasn't unlikable but fell short of tickness). I can't make sense of any of those four beating "Too Little Too Late" and "Say It Right" except that the JoJo and the Nelly, being so much more alive and competent, also accentuate what irritates people about JoJo/Nelly. I suppose The Gossip are nice and alive too, which accentuates what irritates me about Beth Ditto's grating out-of-tune blowhard vocals. (But "Standing In The Way Of Control" was a solid tick anyway, because it's a solid song, and I'm not against grating out-of-tune blowhard vocals in principle - see Janis at Monterey, 'cept if you're gonna pull it off you've got to be Janis.)

This week "DJ" was a borderline tick, all that electro chop-chop getting in the way, but the chorus managing to get over the barriers anyway. Ciara track is quite good though there's better on the alb, Avril song has way too much overkill but is good nonetheless, the Pink's a bore (interestingly, the much better "U + Ur Hand," having stalled for months and months, is now rising on the U.S. charts), Hilary a good track even if it isn't within miles of "Come Clean" and "Fly" (and Ashley Tisdale's "Be Good To Me" is a better Kara DioGuardi dance effort).