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

I didn't vote / I need context

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

The honest truth is that I was pretty nonplussed by everything - with the exception of (what turned out to be) M2M, everything sounded kind of samey (?) to me. (I know that sounds strange, maybe everything was glazed over by indifference.) Even after several listens nothing was really working for me. M2M was okay, but the BeeGees quote just seemed really cheap to me.

I won't say I love the Herbert now - it's still lacks punch - but I feel like I "understand" it much better now. I hate that feeling, though - when knowing who the artist is changes how you feel about the track.

Re: I didn't vote / I need context

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

In the Pop Open we're going to reveal the tracks (though not who submitted them) before voting closes. It'll be interesting to see who votes before the reveals and who after.

Re: I didn't vote / I need context

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

The honest truth is that I was pretty nonplussed by everything - with the exception of (what turned out to be) M2M, everything sounded kind of samey (?) to me.

I thought that. It was bizarre how close they all seemed, sonically- I didn't know whether this was significant to the mood of poptimists or not though.