Pop Open 00s RESULTS & even MOAR details.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Results for the 00s group - good turnout and very close:

FIRST PLACE: NOZE - "Remember Love" (8 first place votes, 35% of total points) - w3ft WINS.

SECOND PLACE: PENDULUM - "Hold Your Colour" (7 first place votes, 28% of total points) - piratemoggy QUALIFIES.

THIRD PLACE: RISKAY - "Smell Yo Dick" (6 first place votes, 23% of total points) - alexmacpherson is OUT.

FOURTH PLACE: GLASS CANDY - "Candy Castle" (1 first place vote, 14% of total points) - kill_yr_idols is OUT.

Congrats and commiserations to the excellent competitors.

The 3rd round will start later this week with mackromackro vs credoimprobus - both have got me their tracks, as have infov0re and byebyepride: thanks to all.

I need tracks, in MP3 format, no theme, pick anything you like, from w3ft, hauntedballroom, lockedintheatti, piratemoggy, cis, stevem78, umlauts and anatol_merklich - I will email to remind later in the week. Tracks to leagueofpop@gmail.com please!

I'll be moving through the third round at a fair clip. Winners of the 3rd round bouts will then have a very brief time to submit a track for the 4th round, where the theme is WINTER (including Christmas or not, as you wish). I'll probably do that as one big batch of six. The theme for the final will be VICTORY.

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Bah, 'Remember Love' was the one on my shortlist I thought wouldn't do as well :(

I actually prefer 'Remember Love' to 'Smell Yo Dick', which I have kind of...grown off since I submitted it! I mean, it's that kind of really obvious oddball humour which appeals to, well, ilx types, but there's so much playing-it-for-laughs going on that the song itself suffers. Really should have gone for 'Nasty Bitch' by Trina, which I'd settled on ages ago (and which I ended up not submitting as "too obviously me") - has the same WTF factor as 'Smell Yo Dick' but less of the wacky novelty; by being a hard-ass instead of a comic, Trina ends up being funnier.

I knew it had been all over the blogosphere but I thought this wouldn't matter (and it nearly didn't!) as poptimists have a pretty poor record of hearing new stuff.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Also I much preferred the League of Pop...it's simultaneously harder and more constraining trying to pick tracks for everyone, and I thought the League threw up a lot more interesting choices. For the Pop Open, I kept coming up against tracks I really wanted specific people to hear, which they would have loved, but knowing that too many other people already knew it, or would have hated it. Like...I could never have submitted 'Relevee' in the Pop Open but it was a triumph in the League when I picked it for Mark S.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Something I find really interesting is that three of the final 12 here - hauntedballroom, byebyepride and moggy - all did pretty awfully in the League - and a lot of the others weren't involved in it: I think only lockedintheatti has done well in both. It obviously requires different skills!

I really enjoyed doing the League too - I won't be undertaking any big orgafun projects until I'm well settled into the new house but I want to do a second season of it more than I want to do a Euro 2008 pop tournament, say.