The Future Is Ow

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7163404.stm

It's the annual BBC Sound of... poll!

Follow the link to look at the artists but also take part in our very own RESPONSE poll, whereby we discern which of these hott new artists' claims are most off-putting. Cynicism? More like survival instinct.

[Poll #1115544]

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"I don't think I have to be all glamorous and lose weight and stop smoking to be a good artist."
Soulja Boy

"I'm just learning about my voice at the moment, what I can and can't do so it's a discovery about me."
Kate Knash

"We write a track, we record it and within the first hour if we're not feeling it we erase it, it's gone."
Brian Higgins

"There's something really authentic about a lot of doo-wop and '50s rock 'n' roll."
Mark Rongson

"We make music that tries to be progressive in some small way - in whatever way you can still do now."
Scouting For Girls

"People would be less interested in us if we were doing something they had heard before."
Booty Luv

"The goal is to have a nine-year-old girl and an 80-year-old man in a different country dancing at the same time."
Gogol Bordello

"We definitely take something away from every era. I realised a while back that pop music's all about theft."
Nickelback

"The album does address many similar themes dealing mostly with current apocalyptic confusion and post-apocalyptic survivalism."
Leona Lewis

"Nina Simone and Bad Brains are my two biggest vocal influences."
Johnny Borrell