A Year In Pop: 18

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

A new month, a new poll! Get that tick rate going again!

[Poll #982157]

All previous polls are still open, etc etc. if you've "got into" any of the year's pop platters since their initial blushing entrance to the charts.

Comments

[koganbot]

Lex, when you get home you must listen to this live version of "Rhiannon", which adds four incredible minutes that are way way way beyond what's on the album track (which wasn't on one of the two albs you bought anyway). Definitely tell me what you think.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

That live version is awesome!! thanks for linking it... beats hell out of everything in this poll, except possibly JoJo.

(Should we be worried that in the 2007 poll we're talking about a record made more than 20 years ago?)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Nah. 2007 has been decidedly average for singles so far. Only Avril, Amerie and Tash-Bed have released anything to write home about, pop-wise. The dance/electro side of things is faring slightly better though.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

2007 has been awesome! My top 10 stretches well over 50 at the moment though it's bolstered by a load of bobbins 12"s and US hip-hop/r&b. In terms of UK Top 40 hits so far:

1. Ciara - Like A Boy
2. Nelly Furtado - Say It Right
3. Amerie - Take Control
4. Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend
5. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
6. Amy Winehouse - You Know I'm No Good
7. The Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control
8. Fergie ft Ludacris - Glamorous
9. Hilary Duff - With Love
10. Natasha Bedingfield - I Wanna Have Your Babies
11. JoJo - Too Little Too Late
12. P Diddy ft Keyshia Cole - Last Night

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

2007 sounds good to me now but that's mostly because I just listened to "Puppy Love" by Donny Osmond four times in a row.

speaking of which...

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

what does "{democracy: 49}" mean?

Re: speaking of which...

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

now the lizards must excise you from the continuum

It means either I've fucked up the poll function or Alan's turned it off!

[koganbot]

As of this second, not confining myself to dreary Brit charts:

1. Lloyd f. Lil Wayne "You"
2. Ashley Tisdale "Not Like That"
3. JoJo "Anything"
4. Yung Berg "Sexy Lady"
5. Keak Da Sneak "That Go"
6. Linda Sundblad "Lose You"
7. Taylor Swift "Teardrops On My Guitar"
8. Dragonette "I Get Around"
9. Rihanna f. Jay-Z "Umbrella" [also the remix w/ Lil Mama]
10. Kelly Clarkson "Never Again"
11. Sadie Ama "Fallin'"
12. Lil Mama "Lip Gloss"

Plus a whole bunch of album tracks I'm not going to worry about (Miranda Lambert, yet more JoJo, yet more Taylor Swift), plus about another dozen tremendous singles.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

At least three of those - Lil' Mama, Kelly Clarkson, Rihanna - would be above Avril in mine; so would 'Get It Shawty' by Lloyd (either Nina Sky or Missy/Yung Joc rmx), though not 'You'.

Rihanna far and away my single of the year so far.

[koganbot]

Haven't really listened to "Get It Shawty" yet. "Too Little Too Late" was in my last year's top 20 - so was "A Public Affair" which I think is a Brit single this year, isn't it? - and "Say It Right" was in my top 40, and all three of those would easily be in this 12; I think very few of my current 12 will make it to my final list. "Umbrella" may well rise as it has more of an impact on me; the Clarkson and the Swift are getting by more on the singing than the song, and they've got better to come, if the record companies make the right choices.

Dragonette

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The "Girlfriend's The Competition" song is much better than "I Get Around"! It's on their myspace.

Re: Dragonette

[koganbot]

I will look for it once I'm done this week's League Of Popping. "I Get Around" is the first Dragonette I've ever heard.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

None of those are bad by any means! But only Tash, Am and Av have made me go OH EM GEE AWESOMENESS. Like I said, the bosh side of things fares much better.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

There have been 6 (!) albums released already so far in 2007 that would have made my top 10 in 2006 (Miranda Lambert, Hilary Duff, Fall Out Boy, LCD Soundsystem, Avril, Jordan Pruitt), which makes it a pretty great year for albums. Still feels like a fairly weak year at the top for singles, to me. Of all the singles released so far this year, only "I Wanna Have Your Babies" would have made my top 10 last year. "The Best Damn Thing" is my favorite song released so far in 2007. 'Twill contend for my top spot if released.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

The other way round for me...as ever loads of singles coming from all directions, but too many albums so far are 7 or 8 out of 10, rather than 9 or 10.

Also I am worried that I am 15 again, because my top 5 so far contains both Tori Amos and Bjork.

[koganbot]

Beats the JoJo, even. Beats a lot of what's on White Light White Heat and Crown Of Creation and Live Through This, for that matter (if that tells you how I tend to hear that song)(will explain to Lex what this entails once he tells me he loves it).

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

I am intrigued. Will look forward to you spilling the beans.

I listened to Rumours on the bus into work after my last post, and it sounded really really excellent -- don't think I've ever paid attention to it, just listened out for the ones I already know. Apart from the bits where the mp3s are shonky and sound like a VVM remix.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

(note valuable FK mode of listening -- compare and contrast for likeness outside expected zones of comparision -- is rendered critical outsider-speak by the pernicious dominance of the concept of INFLUENCE)

[koganbot]

"Expected zones of comparison" is indeed an influence - a negative influence, but negative influences are indeed within the meaning of the word "influence" (pernicious dominance of the (mediocre rock critics') concept of INFLUENCE is itself an influence on my use of a much better concept of influence; is also an influence on Mark's dislike of the word "influence").

(Seriously, I think "influence" is in a similar position to the word "irony": the word when used well is quite essential, but now is weighed-down by all sorts of lazy moronic uses that the word has been put to.)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

hee! i wz sorta partly just yankin yr chain to ask if you'd got my l*c b**k email

[koganbot]

Deliberately haven't read my emails yet as I am supposedly going to do my League Of Pop writeup first, if I can tear my eyes from this thread.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

oh ok!