The League Of Pop: THE FINAL

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Another experimental format, but of course. Check back every half hour as I count up to the WINNAH. 19 voters in total - about as much as for the Pop World Cup later rounds. I am hoping for higher totals in the Pop Open! But my workload caught up with my marketing (and reviewing!) skills so this was more of an epilogue than a climax to the League.

In fourth place...: TRACK 4: M2M - "Our Song", chosen by koganbot: 2 1st place votes, 4 2nd place votes. In his email when he submitted the song Frank mentioned that he'd sent it to a lot of people before, and indeed this was the only one I even theoretically knew.

In third place...: Track 1: DESTRA - "Independent Ladies", chosen by alexmacpherson: 4 1st place votes, 5 2nd place votes. A bold choice from the Lex, I thought, though this isn't as frenetic as most Soca. I was pleased to see it do well - led the field when I counted the first ten voters.

In second place...: Track 3: COOKIE CREW - "Born This Way", chosen by jeff_worrell: 6 1st place votes, 3 2nd place votes. My personal favourite of the four, keeps its infectious momentum going to the end.

In first place...: Track 2: HERBERT - "Moving Like A Train", chosen by inhibitorylinks: 6 1st place votes, 5 2nd place votes. The best individual performer in the League of Pop and so a worthy winner here, this was the most interesting and more-ish of the tracks for me, but ran out of steam (boom boom) towards the fifth minute. Even so would have got a 2nd place from me.

Well done Scott and thanks to the other three finalists.

Tomorrow you'll get five sexxxxxy traxx (ahem), anonymised and ready to vote on. If I can sort out some streaming media nonsense I will but I'll put them up as a zip too. GIRD YR LOINS.

Comments

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

So far it's in accord with my own voting - the M2M track was way too syrupy for me and I just couldn't get away from the Bee Gees version in my head, and Destra was a bit, well, nothing. Not bad but it hardly stuck in my mind... Again, I just kept thinking about Destiny's Child's much more fun Independent Women. It's like calling your song (I Can't Get No) Interaction and expecting you not to think of the Stones.

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

One of things I loved about Independent Ladies was it sounds so much FUN compared to Independent Women. Feminism as uplifting and non-threatening to men vs Feminism as sung by scary Fembots. (I do like the DC one by the way though)

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

Fembots though! They are the most fun thing for me. And really, the Destiny's track is hardly threatening.