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

Re: "America" by Razorlight

[cis.livejournal.com]

perhaps because it is a SWEET SUMMER JAM.

Re: "America" by Razorlight

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

it is because you are MY MUM

Re: "America" by Razorlight

[cis.livejournal.com]

it is because Razorlight have secretly tapped into the FINEST VEIN OF SOFT ROCK known to mankind.

I have just listened to it on youtube five times and it is not enough!

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: "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.