A Year In Pop: 45

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

A somewhat bijou poll this - and maybe should be even more so if "Valerie" is the same "Valerie" that's at #4 in the charts, just on a different record so credited different - can anyone enlighten?

[Poll #1087141]

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Yes! I really like it.

I've heard the Kylie album in full - there are a couple of good blippy electro tracks (and nothing further in the indie chug vein of '2 Hearts') but it's still a very, very poor effort.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Has it actually leaked? I need a copy for Pitchfork - should have taken The Nipper up on his kind offer at Poptimism!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

dunno if it's leaked - I had to stream it in shitty quality off the EMI website. It seems very limp and bloodless next to the Britney - I'm disappointed by how bloody safe it is, it seems that Kylie has really embraced her status as All-Round Family Entertainer.

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

Your friend Peter Robinson said exactly the same thing in the OMM yesterday.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

His review (which I've just read) is basically otm! Mindmeld at last!

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

but you both love Keane!

[koganbot]

Lex, listen to the the Celine Dion song, for chrissakes. It is written and produced by someone who, for instance, did "La La" and "Come Clean."