poptimists | Year In Pop #35

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2007

Year In Pop #35

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Due to having excessive time on my hands and not wanting to actually start tidying/packing for another few days at the very least, I have hunted down YouTubes of all of the above:
James Blunt
Elvis
Scouting For Girls
Natalie Imbruglia
Reverend and The Makers [poss. not work safe]
Maroon 5 [also poss. not work safe]
The Twang
Armand Van Helden

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I confess I don't hear much of "LITD" in "1973". Perhaps my expectations of it were low, but I quite like this actually.

That and Natalie and Maroon 5 are all "safe" Radio 2 fodder, but even so are all borderline ticks for me. (P.S. I am v. old)

The first 3 seconds reminded me of it quite profoundly when I listened to it just now, in a disappointing 'oh bvgger I would rather listen to LITD' way. That said I was being slightly sarcastic in the above comment and I do actually quite like 1973 and have ticked it.

I wish the Maroon 5 man would stop trying to convince us all that he is not Radio 2 fodder by taking all his clothes off in the videos. 'Look, we're hardcore and dangerous; I have had sex with women!'

Maroon 5 man has been 1xMASSIVE CAD about Maria Sharapova this week. I don't actually like Sharapova very much but impugning the honour of ANY of my tennis girls is NOT ON.

Apparently his 'representative' has since denied the quote (or indeed that they even met more than once ever).

OMG I haven't been following the US Open since about Day 2 and just looked at the BBC news site in order to catch up. How about the bottom half of the women's singles draw right now?

The bottom half of the women's singles is an amazing and beautiful thing. AGNIESZKA MOTHERFUCKING RADWANSKA!!!!! She is a revelation. Ed O and I have seen something of an explosion ensue in our Radwanska Sisters facebook group. Props to Agnes Szavay and Tamira Paszek, too.

On the downside, neither Serena Williams nor Andy Roddick have lost yet. I trust Justine and Roger will take care of those.

Bah. I won't hear a word said against Serena. I love her.

She's one of those players I'll defend to non-tennis fans, whose comments can be astoundingly ignorant (eg "she looks like a man" w/evs!) but really she's one of my least favourite players...I prefer finesse players over finesse players, I hate her amateur dramatics and labour pain grunts, and I really hate her disrespect to the Tour as a whole (eg never showing up to any tournaments except Slams, always crying off with 'injuries' etc).

Yeah. Basically I want Justine to massacre her 6-0 6-0.

Yeah, I do have a lot of sympathy with you on all of those points, and kind of agreed with them myself - until I went to see her play at Wimbledon, first playing singles and then doubles with her sister, and they just blew me away with the power and particularly their passion. I've been a fan ever since, grunts and all.

Anyway, I don't think she's deliberately disrespecting the tour, more that she's got a much wider range of interests to fill her time than just tennis. Kind of like a Paris Hilton of the tennis world.

She and Paris are friends! They announced their celibacy vow together.

I don't apply any of my views on pop music to tennis, I would pretty much be a tennis rockist. I like old-skool traditional clever play, finesse and stuff rather than dumb ballbashing, and I think it's really bad for the sport when its biggest name (and one of its biggest talents) has such a casual attitude towards it. I don't like the glitzy celebrity of certain players either, b/c it often just translates into favouritism. Also, I love US pop stars and hate US tennis players.

Which must make me a tennis popist. I love it.

I really like the glitzy celebrity side, lots of the other players I find bland, even if I can appreciate their finesse.

Finesse players over POWER players. duh.

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