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

06 vs 07

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

AKA

"Umbrella" vs having more than one good summer jam in the charts.

Re: 06 vs 07

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I was going to say, it's a bit early for that - this time last year all we had was 'Maneater'. But it's July already! How did that happen? And I can't even think of anything on the horizon...Kat DeLuna would be perfect but I don't even know if it'll be released over here, Lil' Mama and Nicole Scherzinger are both scheduled for the autumn...though Amerie and maybe Dizzee will be along in a week or two.

Re: 06 vs 07

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yeah "Gotta Work" fits the bill tho there are better tunes on that album.

What Dizzee? "Flex"? "Pussy'ole"?

Re: 06 vs 07

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

'Pussyole' is the next single. I keep meaning to post the video - the radio edit REMOVES THE CHORUS!!!! ENTIRELY!!! And uses the first verse as a chorus instead! But still works, not as well as it should, but it's no travesty.

I dunno why everyone's going on about 'Gotta Work' - it seems that for ages any Rich Harrison r&b production has been greeted with sneers of "'Crazy In Love' rip-off!" and now I think this one really IS a poor man's CIL/1T, everyone's going nuts over it.

Re: 06 vs 07

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

:( I will believe it when I hear it re. Dizzee - surely yelling "Pussyole! Pussyole! Pussyole!" is 50% of the song's point!!

Re: 06 vs 07

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

That was always going to be removed though, which begs the question of why it's apparently OK for Nicole Scherzinger to sing "something 'bout that cock, you think you got me wanting to see what's going on" on her new single. She ACTUALLY DOES.

Re: 06 vs 07

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

no it's 'clock'. she just wants to know what time it is.

Re: 06 vs 07

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i think Audio Club could've done a lot better if it had been released in the UK right NOW...not sure it was released here at all. i think it's very Summery anyway.

Re: 06 vs 07

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

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

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