The History Of Pop Part 65 aka Jumping In My Tutu

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Happy 2nd Birthday Poptimists!

As a celebration, here's a trip down memory lane - a NOW poll! For more recently arrived posters, the NOW Polls covered the first 64 volumes, and ended at around this time last year. There are now three more volumes, not that I'm intending to poll all three, but enough water has flowed under the pop bridge for a summer-of-06 lookback to not feel ENTIRELY like a pointless exercise.*


[Poll #1020712]


*in a relative sense, of course.

Comments

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I agree. Definitely a few cases of "grown on me" rather than "gone off". Exhibit A: "Promiscuous", which ONLY THIS VERY WEEK I have finally learned to like.

Re: "I might as well take a gun and PUT IT TO HIS HEAD!"

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

How can it be her second best single if it's worse than two of her other singles?

Re: "I might as well take a gun and PUT IT TO HIS HEAD!"

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

I agree about the song though.

Re: "I might as well take a gun and PUT IT TO HIS HEAD!"

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

But Rihanna knows exactly how OTT and ridiculous she is (those portentous piano chords! all the melodrama!) and the song is basically her indulging fully in this!

Re: "I might as well take a gun and PUT IT TO HIS HEAD!"

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

um I don't think Bright Eyes is exactly lacking in self-awareness

Re: lol strangepowers

[sbp.livejournal.com]

It is.

Re: lol strangepowers

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

truly wonderful news

Re: Borderline

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

1) correct

2) correct

i have the song in my head but it's hard to describe beyond 'la la la and i'm borderline'

it reminds me of Bent's 'Magic Love' not that that would be much use to you either.

Re: "I might as well take a gun and PUT IT TO HIS HEAD!"

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

"yaowwwww i am burning like fire!"

Re: "I might as well take a gun and PUT IT TO HIS HEAD!"

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

It revolves with 'Pon De Replay' for second place.

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

I quite liked the Aguilera then, but now I think it's awful. Mostly because there was an amazingly gay-tastic dance of her NEXT single that did everything I really wanted from a C.Ag single and now everything else sounds crap.

Re: "I might as well take a gun and PUT IT TO HIS HEAD!"

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

The best song by the Rihanna who I think is closest to, like, the REAL Rihanna, if that makes sense. Totally bizarre, borderline psycho (but not in a performative "Breakin' Dishes" way, like seriously effed up!), completely bonkers in a way that almost none of her stuff on "Good Girl Gone Bad" (except maybe "Question Existing"?) is. I want her to go off the deep end, since her voice isn't gonna change and the run-the-gamut pop production just proves that her biggest asset and biggest drawback is (potentially) HER in all her zaniness.

Re: Borderline

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

You know, I have it downloaded and I have heard it but I don't remember, so I didn't tick. But I think I should have.

It's certainyl better than fucking LDN. REALLY NOW PEOPLE, THAT SONG IS AWFUL.

Did anyone procure a copy of Ms Poole's solo album? "Totally Underwater", the teaser download thing, was pretty great.

Shakira, Shakira

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

TS: 'Hips Don't Lie' vs 'Beautiful Liar'?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

the Aguilera album really really benefited from being the first big summer pop album to come out last year (preceding Justin, Beyoncé, Paris) - it's not BAD but it's not GREAT either. Having said that it is mostly ballads, and I only ever crave Xtina ballads a couple of times a year, and when I crave them I REALLY crave them, so I may well turn round again.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I still love 'Ain't No Other Man' always & 4eva though.

Re: Shakira, Shakira

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

Hips Don't Lie by a million miles!

God, I hate the Scissors Sisters.

Re: "America" by Razorlight

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

It is the #4 song of the '06/'07 Br*ern Abb*y 12-y/o school year, in terms of children being able to remember it, just behind 'Monster', 'Umbrella' and, um, 'American Idiot' I think.

I really like it.

Re: 06 vs 07

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I had forgotten that song, I must go and listen to it NOW.

Re: "I might as well take a gun and PUT IT TO HIS HEAD!"

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I really, really, really want to do a mash up of 'Unfaithful' and, err, 'Cute Without The E' by Taking Back Sunday.

Re: Borderline

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Sounded quite a lot like a very good Danni Minogue song.

Re: Shakira, Shakira

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

'Hips Don't Lie' = worst song ever. That one where she's flailing about in the JCB clearly pwns them all.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I think I ticked about twenty things on this. 'I Don't Need A Man' is BRILLIANT in a 'comedy dancing in bedroom' way but 'Yeah Yeah' is AMAZING in a 'comedy dancing in Y Bae' way and 'Something Kinda Oooh' is hardly shabby. In the end I went with Pussycat Dolls because I just put it on and it sounded fucking ace, whereas I don't have a copy of 'Yeah Yeah' and my 'Something Kinda Oooh' single is downstairs in a box.

Re: "America" by Razorlight

[cis.livejournal.com]

It has a power entirely separate from its lyrics, I think that's one of the things I like about it: I pick up song lyrics very easily and the lines of this one are still mostly meaningless to me, until the chorus goes "all my life, mnmnmnmnm america" and somehow they've picked the perfect sequence of notes, exactly the right rhythm, so it catches in your brain and hangs humming there, suggesting the open road and a dusty convertible and a quiet expansive sadness stretching comfortably out on either side.

Re: 06 vs 07

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

jump back its the rat pack white like an imac take it all the way to iraq in a cadillac