I Love #1s - 2002

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I know it's early, but wipe the cobwebs from your eyes and crack your knuckles out, it's another Number Ones poll!

Last week the Shadows rocked the bottom with their Apache song to claim the crown of 1960 ticky-love. Poor Me? Poor you, Adam Faith! Not a tick to be had for him. But without further ado, lets find the best number one of 2002! Plenty of Pop Idol action, plus double dosage of Ver 'Loife in case you'd been missing them. And what's this? Blazin' Squad and Atomic Kitten? It's like teen pop never died, kids!

[Poll #973612]
(Daniel Beddingfield was no.1 in 2001 as well so he's been left off here)

Comments

Wow this year was awesome!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

- The start of Xtina's world domination! As I remember this wasn't a single which everyone loved straight away - she'd had a massive period of skankitude before, everyone thought she was washed up compared to Britney (oh how things change), and the ultra-skank of 'Dirrty' was more "OMG what has she done" than "OMG she's amazing", which came after 'Beautiful' and 'Fighter'.

- The start of Sugababes' UK domination! And Girls Aloud at the end there...

- Second-tier acts keeping the pop alive in between the big anthems with first-tier songs - Holly V, Liberty X...I've said in the past that the first sign of the death of teenpop/dancepop was that we found that we had to wait for the big acts (Sugababes, GA, Britney, Xtina et al) to release singles, when during this period we always had disposable desperadoes to tide us over

- Eminem! Still really good in 02. I've never thought of his decline as an actual artistic decline because it always seemed deliberate to me - it's not that he's "lost it", it's that he doesn't want to have it any more, which is fair enough

- Nelly'n'Kelly bring the gorgeousness

- And still Aaliyah towers above all - even now when I listen to 'More Than A Woman' I'm captivated by a different bit of it, a different vocal inflection or production trick. I think the last time I noticed the outro most of all, when the string phrase really subtly slightly unhooks itself from the beat, so for the last couple of bars it's just slightly out of time and disjointed.

Aaliyah

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I saw the video for this on Hits!tv the other day, and it's still spellbinding. I am sad that I had no clue who she was until she died :(

Re: Wow this year was awesome!

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

going down the list, it's a slow start and then you get a MASSIVE KICK

Sugababes - Holly - Liberty X - Eminem

a gap with "oo smashing las ketchup" before being TOTALLY HIT OVER THE HEAD

xtina - eminem - Girls Aloud