How's that 2007 shaping up, then?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This week's poll is tomorrow (don't get too excited). Here's how things stand at the end of April:

Overall Top 10

1. The Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control
2=. Amerie - Take Control
2=. Amy Winehouse - Back In Black
4. LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum
5=. Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend
5=. Ciara - Like A Boy
7=. Sophie Ellis Bextor - Catch You
7=. Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around Comes Around
7=. Long Blondes - Giddy Stratospheres
10=. Mark Ronson ft D Merryweather - Stop Me
10=. Timbaland ft Nelly Furtado - Give It To Me

April Top 10

1=. Amerie - Take Control (overall position 2=)
1=. Amy Winehouse - Back In Black (op 2=)
3=. Mark Ronson ft D Merryweather - Stop Me (op 10=
3=. Timbaland ft Nelly Furtado - Give It To Me (op 10=)
5. Natasha Bedingfield - I Wanna Have Your Babies (op 14)
6=. Fall Out Boy - Thnks Fr Th Mmrs (op 27=)
6=. Klaxons - Gravity's Rainbow (op 27=)
8=. Manic Street Preachers - Your Love Alone Is Not Enough (op 30=)
8=. Groove Armada ft Stush - Get Down (op 30=)
10=. Arctic Monkeys - Brianstorm (op 37=)
10=. Dan Le Sac ft Scroobius Pip - Thou Shalt Always Kill (op 37=)

I'm sure I'm not the only Poptimist hoping for a better May.

Comments

Long Blondes

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I continue to want to like them, and I'm just not sold. Are they going to mature into something fabulous, or does Kate Jackson just have star quality that is being stifled by a derivative indie band? (Or neither?)

Re: Long Blondes

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Kate Jackson has nice clothes and a semblance of charisma. This is not "star quality". So, neither. They're not, like, offensively bad, they're just really rather dull. Why would you want to like them?

Re: Long Blondes

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

re: KJ. I guess "stifled" and "mature" are the operative words - although there isn't that much on display so far, I keep coming back for more. You, I think, are too used to people appearing on the scene fully groomed, like they've been through the corporate image-making machine.

Re: Long Blondes

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I increasingly fear that, for all the obvious Pulp comparisons, they're actually the new Kenickie - destined never to meet with anything like the mainstream success they were forecast, while forever meaning absolutely everything to a small band of devotees.