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.

[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.

[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

[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.

[poptasticuk.livejournal.com]

Very pop this week!