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

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

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I forgot how amazing 'Unfaithful' was! This is her second best single after 'Umbrella' and 'Pon De Replay'.

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

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Dude, it's TERRIBLE. All that emo 'I don't want to be a MURDERER' well STOP SHAGGING THE OTHER DUDE THEN. It's worse than BRIGHT EYES!

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: "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!"

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

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Bluddy hell, do TBS rly have a song called 'Cute without the E'? That's the most ridiculous emo song title ever.

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

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

It is the most ridiculously emo song ever. In fact, it may be the song from which all other emo emanates, whether pre- or post- it and since it's subtitle is '(Cut From The Team)' it even covers that jock-misery thing emo's worked itself out for these days.

Sadly it is also quite a good song, in my opinion. It is about cheatin wimmins and the chorus goes 'And will you tell all your friends you've got your gun to my head or is this all only wishful thinking' and basically it is all about how the protagonist's ladyfriend is killing him with her cheating ways and uses nearly the same phraseology as the Rihanna song. I am actually surprised no one has mashed the two up yet, if they haven't. I fully intend to insert 'Teardrops' or something to the meld, should I ever get proficient enough with Soundforge/bored enough to actually do it.

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]

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

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.