Poptimists Top 40 Of 2007 Part 4

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Taking us up to the VERY BRINK of the Top 10.

17. FREEMASONS ft BAILEY TZUKE - "Uninvited"

Poptimists sleeper hit alert! Undistinguised video tho B Tzuke is a pretty lady. YouTube comments include debate about whether Freemasons are ACTUAL MASONS.

Watch on YouTube

16. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - "Someone Grebt"

This is a single version in which a hipster has sex with A VOID omg. Does rather tilt the "is it about a break up OR DEATH" qn though.

15. GROOVE ARMADA ft MUTYA BUENA - "Song 4 Mutya (Out Of Control)"

Embedding disabled but who cares, it's a disappointingly boring video anyway.

14. KANYE WEST - "Stronger"

Kanye rebuilt by robotz!

Watch on YouTube

13. BRITNEY SPEARS - "Get Naked (I Has A Plan)"

Not yet (& probably not ever) a single - here's an unofficial video.

12. LIL MAMA - "Lip Gloss"

Embedding disabled here too which is a great shame as this is an awesome video w/magic lipgloss!

11. FALL OUT BOY - "The Take Over, The Break's Over"

Even men with steel hearts love to see a dog in the emo video.

Watch on YouTube

Comments

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Tom - is it possible to generate something like a 'poptimist score' i.e. to what degree an individual's picks correlate with poptimist 'consensus'? I'm wondering if there's a statistical way of pointing up what feels like my detachment from poptimist taste over the last year! Of course if Spoon is in the Top 10 this may not be necessary...

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

If all the points Spoon songs got were for a single Spoon song they would have been! As it is they're the unrepresented act with the most individual picks (4 different songs, including a #'1 vote! but no consensus).

I did the spreadsheet as an aggregate so I haven't got individual vote tallies, but yes this would be possible. Least Poptimist voter = probably Julio. Most = Jeff maybe?

Guilty as charged

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I did skew my ballot slightly based on what I thought other like-minded folks might vote for. But only slightly. And furthermore I left out "Umbrella" which is obv a top 10 song of the year, cos I assumed it would do well anyway. So my ballot could have been even more representative.

My real actual singles list is contained in the latest post on my journal.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

In terms of how consensual consensus is - there were around 40 voters (maybe slightly less). Everything in the top 9 got at least 6 individual votes but only 3 things got 10 or more.

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

Unrelated to this list but you can do that for the poptimists group on last.fm using this (http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/comparegroup.php).

[cis.livejournal.com]

that is a brilliant toy! (of all the names i've entered, alan is the most poptimist poptimist: 91.89%!)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

HAHA the green and red tags for my name...

I shall never get over the way poptimists has become a community of INDIE, and only scant interest in r&b and hip-hop. Do I HAVE to go back to the rolling r&b thread :((

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Yes, the pernicious influence of noted indie fans Tom, Starry, Cis, Alan, Matt DC will be the ruination of this group...

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

See also: me never playing music on my laptop, and not being able to use last.fm at work.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I has a PLAN for some low-level orgafun in 2008 which will help - won't make us less indie but it will make us more of other things / increase the diversity (hopefully).