poptimists | A Year In Pop: 17

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2007

A Year In Pop: 17

The last poll of April.

[Poll #976589]

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Amerie - terrific, I dunno why people are saying 'Gotta Work' is better than this - it's taut, it's compelling, her vocal performance is astonishingly good - just listen to the line "the way you kiss my neck in public - I try my best not to blush" and you can HEAR the blush in her voice. And then that amazing "I FIND HIM I FORGIVE HIM I FEED HIM" - she says she wants you to take control but after that you're left in no doubt as to who cracks the whip. One of the singles of the year.

Amy Winehouse - this is my favourite Winehouse at the moment - my favourite bit is the way she launches into the chorus with this triumphant resignation after the "black...black...black..." pause. It's stately and dignified in its heartbreak - I love that aesthetic.

BIG GAP IN QUALITY

Sunblock - superior bosh, the video is SO RUDE though

Shirley Bassey - eh, I can't tell if this is a new song or a re-release, and I don't really care enough to find out. It's OK I suppose but I am harsh with my "any good at all"s.

Groove Armada - wtf is Stush doing associating with them? She hasn't been seen or heard in half a decade and now she makes her comeback with these people? Sadly not great, clunky and messy, a crumb off the table of the last Basement Jaxx album, which was itself pretty shit.

Manic Street Preachers - wtf is Nina Persson doing associating with them? Are they trying to be playful and tongue-in-cheek here? They're not very good at it. I caught a reference to one of their old shit singles though. Anyway they're way ahead of most rubbish indie because I've always thought that the lead singer's voice was great, charismatic in an overblown sort of way, and Nina's bits are obv great, but the lumpen arrangement and plodding non-tune dominate. Also wtf with the other dude starting to sing near the end? He can't, I actually burst out laughing. And then I stopped the video.

Lostprophets - god when I lived in Wales these cunts were everywhere.
I haven't been back to Wales since I escaped.

The View - I couldn't find this on Youtube :D

Ahaa it must have been 'Gotta Work' that I heard before and dismissed as Whatevs. 'Take Control' is brilliant!

'Gotta Work' is brilliant too! Amerie says she wrote it in her kitchen while she was cooking chicken.

Manics: i also laughed when the Nicky bit came in, but in an "HURRAH, what are you doing? excellent!" kind of way.

Speaking As A Manics Fan, it's the best thing they've done for ages, but the words are still sh!t, i'm not sure why they don't, y'know, just open a couple of richey's notebooks, just for a quick look...

I thought they'd already done that and that TIMTTMY was the one where they cracked open a few Richie notebooks, but that this was in no way a change in their policy of not exploiting tragedy blah blah blah.

It's easy to forget because that was not a very good album (altho' a powerful masterpiece compared to what followed)

I would put their new single in the same league as The Fratellis.

I second this but the problem would be that it would all be horribly out of date and working under the assumption that anyone still gave a fuck (in a general sense, not just about the Manics) :(

i think the main problem is mr bradfield and, particularly, mr wire not giving a fvck...

Good point. I really rather wish they would just stop before this is what the Manics are remembered for, although I like this song.

<mumblemumble>could've been the new New Order</mumblemumble>

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