A Year In Pop: 27

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

A slightly belated run-down of this week's new entries, polled more out of duty than excitement this week I have to admit (tho I haven't heard most of these). Shower them with your ticks (or just tick one of the last two boxen and be done with it).

[Poll #1019347]

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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Has Puffy and Faith become the Official Song Of The People's Princess Death Anniversary or something?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I was hoping that was "Say It Right", since it re-entered higher.

Coincidentally, I finally heard Loose in full for the first time last night (£6.99 in Virgin, as cheap as it'll probably get in t'shops for a while in the absence of Fopp, I thought). It's good! Loving "No Hay Igual" in particular.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I think 'Say It Right' is the only download-only single so far to have gone top 10...'LoveStoned' is at 12 this week, may join it. 'Candyman' failed.

Loose is brilliant - 'Do It' and 'Glow' also noteworthy!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I was wondering when this would be! Unusually I seem to have ticked MOST of them.

Puff and Faith is classic enough that not even Dianadeath can sully it. Never understood why it was hated so; it's all about Faith's delivery, innit.

Natasha Bedingfield - I love the way she plays with "clichés of modern womanhood" b/c there is so much hot air and bullshit around whether women do feel or should feel or conform to so many things (broodiness, incurable romanticism &c &c) and it's such a minefield and so hard to deal with elegantly; so what Natasha does is cut through it all, forget about elegance, and pretty much put it all out there. It'd be easy to dismiss her as jumping into the Bridget Jones box but she's greater than that

Bobby Valentino - I have been conflicted about this, but the conflict is whether I LOVE it or merely like it. It sounds pretty-pretty-pretty, all that twinkling high-end and twitchy beats; Timba's cameo is for once actually beneficial to the song ("is your name Mary Ann? Or Kathy Lee?"). But it doesn't grab me in the way that eg Lloyd's boy-r&b does, or indeed Bobby V's own gorgeous 'Slow Down' from the other year. Maybe the hook is a teensy bit lacking in oomph

Interpol - same as ever I see! I would like to hear their new album, to see if I love it like I loved their first, or get bored with it, as per their second. It's a template I have a lot of time for though - not the boring people they're copying but the way in which they do it, ie completely stylised and soulless

NYPC - this actually sounds really crap when listened to sober and in your bedroom, but I have danced to it enough in clubs that I really should tick it

The other two - No. Go away

Doves don't wear shoes

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

On listening thru via YouTube Timbaland and Bobby is the only one getting an extra tick (Puffy got one anyway) - it always threatens to turn into something amazing but doesn't really do it. Still good tho.

The others - in order of closeness to tickage.

New Young Pony Club - I quite fancy the keyboard player on the video BUT this is just a bit too blank and cynical to get a tick despite its discoishness. Enjoy yrselves more!!

Interpol - I don't actually HATE them but I can't imagine what anyone gets out of them. "Soulless and stylised" sounds like a put-on, Lex, sorry. As usual they run out of song well before they run out of time.

Tashbed - Really not getting the love for this - she's a rotten singer and this is a dreary whinge.

Alibi vs Rockefeller - even I'm not going to hand a tick to this tripe.

Mesh 29 - the only clip I can find is an awful open air live performance which seems to be attended by nobody. Very poor indeed, I assume there's a local fanbase been mobilised somewhere, or it's Prince Harry's indie side project or something.

Re: Doves don't wear shoes

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Natasha B sings as though she's only just got back from a good bracing run - her breathlessness really grates by the end of the album but on a song-by-song basis tends to emphasise her words-just-spilling-out-of-my-mouth quality

Re: Doves don't wear shoes

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Interesting take on NYPC - I like them precisely because, unlike all the other 'sexy' synth acts who come across as impossibly detached, NYPC seem to actually be having fun.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I actually think this is one of the more interesting weeks to date!

Also, loads of chart mentalism - apparently entirely because of that Diana concert wtf? I can't even imagine why anyone would watch the thing let alone enough of them to give various songs this much of a boost. Those people strike me as being deeply weird. Maybe THEY are our elusive "average listeners"!

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

There's a fair amount to come next week by the looks of things - several Foo Fighters songs currently on course to re-enter thanks to Live Earth

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

DAMN YOU AL GORE.

I thought nobody watched Live Earth :(

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

There's 5 in the top 75 at the moment, so someone must have watched it :( - although hopefully only one will actually make the top 40 so it shouldn't have too much effect here.

Sexualist Healing

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Haha the video for Alibi vs Rockefeller sets NEW LOWS for rub FHM-house promos.

Re: Sexualist Healing

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Blimey. Can it be betterworse than the women-playing-football-in-the-mud one we had the other week?

Re: Sexualist Healing

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It's the way it gets bored of its own naughty nurses theme halfway through and has two of them soap each other down for no reason! Also the choreography and 'acting' is really DIRE.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Off topic but I had a dream last night that I had forgotten to do a canon yesterday, noes! This might have been my brain wishful thinking itself up into a Saturday but alas not.

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

So just out of curiousity, does tashbed find her soulmate and then want to have their babies, or does she want to have the babies and therein recognizes her soulmate? (or is the soulmate completely different from the breeding stud? also an option, i s'pose)

[whalefish.livejournal.com]

It's a bit like the singles off the last album - in which order did it go? Was she happy being single before she met the bloke in These Words? Was she a strong, independent single woman before or after she got all weak and insecure on I Bruise Easily? She needs to tell us.

Perhaps the rest is still unwritten, ho ho.

[whalefish.livejournal.com]

What kind of a stage name is Bobby Valentino? Makes him sound like he does that '50s easy listening crap my Nan likes.

[giddyoldgoat.livejournal.com]

I take it this isn't the Bobby Valentino who used to play with Hank Wangford