The Poptimists Top 40 Of 2007 Part 1
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poptimistsTenderly compiled from the votes of about 40 people.
40. FEIST - "My Moon My Man (Boyz Noize Remix)"
YouTube Video: here (I'm not embedding it cos it's not an actual video).
39. CASSIE - "Turn The Lights Off"
YouTube Video: here (as above except it's a picture of lovely Cassie not of god knows what).
38. KATE NASH - "Foundations"
Actual video footage of the Gnasher and wrestling toothbrushi!
37. RIHANNA - "Lemme Get That"
YouTube Video: here - this time we get an SLIDESHOW! Not a single yet (why? It's awesome!)
36. CORTNEY TIDWELL - "Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (Ewan's Objects In Space Mix)"
NOT EVEN ON YOUTUBE! Come on somebody, make a Doctor/Rose fanvid or something.
35. ROISIN MURPHY - "Overpowered"
One vote here was for the Seamus Haji remix. Nightbuses! Kebabs!
34. MIA - "Jimmy"
Video as "re-enacted" on the dancefloor of Poptimism! (Which is on THIS SATURDAY pop pickers)
33. TIMBALAND ft KERI HILSON - "The Way I Are"
No embedding on this video but since it's been totally omnipresent on music TV this year you hardly need it. "You can still touch my knob, it's free"
Nos. 32-25 tomorrow!
SMALL PRINT:
1. I didn't bother checking if songs were released in 2007 or not. Some weren't (or haven't yet been, maybe).
2. If a song and a remix both got votes I combined them and gave the placing to whichever version got more points.
3. Points were alotted to placings Eurovision style i.e. 12-10-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1.
4. I won't be saying how many points tracks got till we get to the top 10 though.
5. Only songs with 2 or more voters got placed.
6. Placings were decided by: # of points/# of voters/remix bizness/highest individual score given/artitrary whim - in that order.
40. FEIST - "My Moon My Man (Boyz Noize Remix)"
YouTube Video: here (I'm not embedding it cos it's not an actual video).
39. CASSIE - "Turn The Lights Off"
YouTube Video: here (as above except it's a picture of lovely Cassie not of god knows what).
38. KATE NASH - "Foundations"
Actual video footage of the Gnasher and wrestling toothbrushi!
37. RIHANNA - "Lemme Get That"
YouTube Video: here - this time we get an SLIDESHOW! Not a single yet (why? It's awesome!)
36. CORTNEY TIDWELL - "Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (Ewan's Objects In Space Mix)"
NOT EVEN ON YOUTUBE! Come on somebody, make a Doctor/Rose fanvid or something.
35. ROISIN MURPHY - "Overpowered"
One vote here was for the Seamus Haji remix. Nightbuses! Kebabs!
34. MIA - "Jimmy"
Video as "re-enacted" on the dancefloor of Poptimism! (Which is on THIS SATURDAY pop pickers)
33. TIMBALAND ft KERI HILSON - "The Way I Are"
No embedding on this video but since it's been totally omnipresent on music TV this year you hardly need it. "You can still touch my knob, it's free"
Nos. 32-25 tomorrow!
SMALL PRINT:
1. I didn't bother checking if songs were released in 2007 or not. Some weren't (or haven't yet been, maybe).
2. If a song and a remix both got votes I combined them and gave the placing to whichever version got more points.
3. Points were alotted to placings Eurovision style i.e. 12-10-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1.
4. I won't be saying how many points tracks got till we get to the top 10 though.
5. Only songs with 2 or more voters got placed.
6. Placings were decided by: # of points/# of voters/remix bizness/highest individual score given/artitrary whim - in that order.
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Date: 2008-01-02 04:27 pm (UTC)Still thinking about how exactly 'The Way I Are' appeals so much: it's kind of like the opposite of the more annoying nu-Timba tracks, where what's offputting isn't so much the music per se as how his smug sense of self-importance seeps into the music, where everything has to be a Grand Statement (look! 'What Goes Around' is nine minutes long! 'Give It To Me' disses Prince and Janet and, er, Fergie!). But 'The Way I Are' is so short, slight, resolutely generic, that despite the sound being distinctively Timbaland you can suspend your disbelief completely, it could be anyone at all, and it becomes a quite beautifully pure thing.