A Year In Pop: 19

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Straight in at No.1 - it's McFly!

No.5 for Scooch, slightly astonishingly.

Over to you.

[Poll #985036]

Last week's poll received sadly sparse tickage, I think.

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Transylvania is awesome!

Not heard Snow Patrol or Ross.

I considered ticking Scooch because they really made the best of a bad job on Saturday & the song is quite catchy, but the clumsy innuendo interjections by Man Scooch #2 remove any chance of a tick.

Maroon 5 and Booty Luv are inoffensive & I would like to hear them again.

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

We could be in for another Eurovision-related chart surprise for next week's poll - the Ukrainian entry has been sitting high up the iTunes chart all week so could make it into the top 40 on downloads.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Ross Copperman is bad but OK for this kind of whinging, still nowhere near a tick. "Better than Snow Patrol" is I guess what I'm saying.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I have a copy of the Ross Copperman album going FREE to anyone who wants it. I would like this item out of my house asap. It arrived in the same jiffy bag as Amerie, unbelievably.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

McFly's continued popularity is very interesting! Because in all the various discussions of traditional teenpop's current popularity, we've been kind of assuming that the audience for this kind of band (non-credible, basically; not rock enough to be rock even in comparison to eg Avril, despite the real instruments) is dead. Begs the question - if McFly still clearly have a young school-age audience, why don't [insert pop acts X/Y/Z here].

Don't like either song though, I can appreciate what they're doing on 'Transylvania' but the song reminds me too much of Queen (ugh).

The Booty Luv is OK, the rest are inconsequential and I will rise above them.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Oooh the new R Kelly is lurking just outside the top 40 - that is BRILLIANT. (I mean 'I'm A Flirt' not 'Same Girl', bloody time lag.)

Haha CSS also new into top 75, why is the British public so SLOW to KEEP UP.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Oh god, I'm going to have to poll CSS aren't I? I think I might rule it ineligible (AND THE GOSSIP RETROACTIVELY). Terrific song but it's already won about 10 poptimist polls.

"I'm A Flirt" is grebt - thought it was someone ft. R Kelly tho.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

They're both proper official re-releases though, not random re-entries, neither of which had been in the top 40 before! Though whereas other songs prob don't get ticks because people haven't heard them yet (at times I think even poptimists live under rocks) I can't imagine this problem would afflict The Gossip or CSS.

Orig 'I'm A Flirt' was Bow Wow ft R Kelly - I have not heard this, I think it was released late last year in the US to promote the Bow Wow album, but not in the UK. The rmx is R Kelly ft TI & T-Pain, that was released in the US this year as the lead from the R Kelly album and has been combined with the Bow Wow original over there, and is the version at No 44 here. CONFUSION REIGNS.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

if McFly still clearly have a young school-age audience, why don't [insert pop acts X/Y/Z here]

Because the drummer is well fit? Mmmm, Drummer McFly...

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

He is. But I prefer Dougie.

I also LOVE that a major part of their marketing strategy these days is getting nekkid at every conceivable opportunity.

[koganbot]

Does anyone know if there's been any attempt to break McFly in the U.S.? There seems a need. (The totally so-what B5 seem to have faded, and the somewhat better than so-what Jonas Brothers are somewhat better than so-what, but still kinda so-what.)

[maura.livejournal.com]

they were featured in the lindsay lohan vehicle 'just my luck' -- one of the characters (i think he was the romantic interest, although i didn't watch the whole thing) was their manager.

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

I said it when it came on the telly the other day, and I'll say it again now: I CANNOT BELIEVE THERE IS A BAND CALLED BOOTY LUV.

Yours,
Grandma

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

They are the girls out of Big Brovaz!

[infov0re.livejournal.com]

Maybe, but they are still JUST A BAND.

Actually, are they even that? They might be JUST HALF A BAND.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

My first 'don't like any of them'... I can see why people are enjoying the McFly but I just don't like the guy's / guys' voice(s). (T)he(y) is/are a bit whiney. Repeated exposure to Booty Luv might endear this to me, but first time round it sounds a bit 'meh'.

I am surprised actually because I have found myself enjoying Radio 1 in the last couple of days, but I guess they are all about the CSS etc so no Top 40 stuff!

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

'Transylvania' does completely piss all over everything else this week. Any other week and Booty Luv would be very good, Maroon 5 would be grudgingly ace and Ross Copperman might slip in there. As it is, Ross gets no tick and the other two are a bit like 'hrmm well I suppose so.'

[koganbot]

McFly - Queen lite, it works, enthusiastic tick.

Booty Luv - Why the fuck even do disco if you're gonna bleed the glitz and joy out of it? But this has enough of the rhythm to get a borderline tick.

Ross Copperman - This is utter, sentimental shit, but not even exuberant sentimental shit, since he is "a blue eyed soul boy of indie-rock"! Neither flair nor originality. But at least this is competent sentimental shit, and it's not subduing itself, so borderline tick (though my guess is that if I had the alb I'd be doing like Lex and getting it out of the house as fast as possible). I may well rescind my tick after a third listen. (But if I don't tick it, who will?)(I think I'm ticking it for a melodic resemblance to Keith Urban's much much much much better "Stupid Boy.")

Maroon 5 - Probably more listenable/likable than the Copperman in the long run, but for a funk-based track it's so absolutely unexuberant, I can't get why this not only exists but has inspired the masses into a frenzy of downloading. Borderline nontick.

Scooch - Relentlessly cheerful, which isn't much better than relentlessly morose in my book (see p. 209). The bass beats are very knowing. (Now, what the hell do I mean by that?) Boney M could nail stuff like this every morning before breakfast, and make me feel something, but this is mediocre. I suppose that if even half-assed Europop like this showed up as a PTW track I'd be ecstatic, but these are the charts, not PTW, so borderline nontick.

Snow Patrol - Takes wing and sorta, um... what's it doing? Attenuated soaring? "Godawful" overrates it, since it achieves negligibility.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I love the Maroon 5 song. Can't remember a note of it when it's not playing, but feels like the catchiest song in the world when it is.

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Voted for McFly on the "close enough" principle. Every else is decidedly 'meh.'

Snow Patrol apparenly a case of "Oh, sure, we have a cut ready that wasn't good enough for the album, you can have that." plus "This is most well-known band on the soundtrack, let's make that the single." (Either that or an interesting statement on what the marketing people feel like Spider Man's musical audience is.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

My great ph34r is that the single is an appropriate match.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Mind you I suspect Peter Parker would have totally shit music taste.

[poptasticuk.livejournal.com]

Very pop this week!