A Year In Pop: 32

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The UK's Number! One! Pop! Stars! Kleerup (and some Swedish mate of theirs) did quite well last week. This week there's the return of Kanye West with his Daft Punk sample, and some other stuff including the first top 40 hit for sophisticindie croonster Richard Hawley. Why not spend your elevenses ticking?

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(All year in pop polls are open until the end of the year. Your investments may go down as well as up.)

Comments

Re: Stronger

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

ha I actually find his matter-of-fact arrogance a quite interesting take on the usual braggadocio - but it bothers me that it's becoming a meme, a default dismissal of Kanye, based on what he's like in interviews of all things. who on earth cares what people are like in interviews? And these same people will lap up what Lily Allen does...

Re: Stronger

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Well I think it's cos he presented himself as a bit 'conscious' and I guess the people who like conscious don't like arrogant? But this is projection on my part really, who knows why folk like Kanye West, I just want another song by him I like as much as Gold Digger thx.

Re: Stronger

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I think he's quite boring on record now and what he's saying is boring too - he reminds me of late 90s Diddy, consumed by their own hype, struggling to come to terms with their status so just keep talking about it on and on. WHO CARES, give us some better beats at least. Diddy did get better tho.

I don't hear him and think 'oh that's a good line' or whatever but perhaps I'm not listening enough.

'Or indeed how it makes him different to 90% of pop stars?'

He is the first big star since ODB to storm on stage at an awards show to complain about not winning the gong he was up for. I can't remember if Wu-Tang were actually nominated at the time ODB did it (hope not as this would be much better :D) but rather than being outrageous, funny or whatever it just seemed really cheap and desperate and it really put me off him.

Re: Stronger

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

How can someone's drunken behaviour at an awards show put you off their music?! I mean, it's not something I'd condone, but it doesn't have any bearing at all on the music. My suspicion has long been that a goodly proportion of people who bang on about Kanye's arrogance ruining his music don't like him to begin with anyway.

Re: Stronger

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I didn't say it put me off his music, just that it put me off him! The music is a separate issue but I've not been feeling his stuff lately anyway. I liked 'Brand New' last year tho he was the worst thing on it. I liked 'Diamonds From Sierra Leone' tho he was the worst thing on that too! No probs with him on 'Gold Digger' at least. He's regularly criticised by people as an average rapper/lyricist and I guess I agree so whether I like what he's doing usually just comes down to the jams.

Things I do like about him: good suits, the whole bear thing - sort of, just because it's somewhat different imagery for hip-hop artist - his face is not on his actual record covers - so much for the inflated ego eh?