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

Re: Jojo's image

[koganbot]

JoJo seems anonymous to me, which I don't consider a musical defect at all but is why there will never be any JoJo posters up in my room. But I suspect that she's too girly for the Lady Poptimists; even when she's mad and telling the guy to leave, get out, he's too little and too late, etc., it's a girl finally pushed to her limit by mistreatment, and she's still sugar and spice amidst her wails and sad tales (and in her heart she would do anything for real love, even wrong love). For boys, appearing to be like this ourselves isn't really an option (or anyway isn't something boys are pressured to be), so JoJo doesn't represent a potential path to be followed or rejected, whereas I'm guessing that for girls she does represent a path, one that Poptimist Girls would likely reject, hence her sound might feel a bit icky to them (as opposed to Blowhard Beth's at the top of our chart).

Re: Jojo's image

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

You might be on to something there. I like my girl popstars feisty, or if not feisty then insane. Notable exceptions: Cassie, Feist (hoho see what I did there!)

Re: Jojo's image

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Cassie is totally feisty:

I love it when they try to get scandalous
Even though they know they really can't handle it
(They can't handle it?) They can't handle it
Tryna take me out to dinner - I cancel it

Re: Jojo's image

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Well when you put it like that :-)

The impression I got for Me&U though was one of a lass whose sole purpose was to 'tempt' blokes with her feminine wiles - although the song was great it felt really uncomfortable (actually that's *why* the song was great) to listen to, like she didn't want to be saying all that stuff but some Evil Record Company Boss was making her sing it to appeal to sleazy dudes. Man, it's like my inner feminist coming out! Noes!

Re: Jojo's image

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Haha this is not what I get from it at all! I thought Cassie sounded scared, and it's a song with lots of underlying menace and dread, but it sounds like this is a situation she's planned for a long time with military precision, finally getting to be alone with the boy she fancies; and she's fantasised so much about it that suddenly the physical moment has arrived and she has no idea what to do next.