Poptimists Top 40 Of 2007 Part 6

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

No embedding means no need for a cut on these three...

6. MILEY CYRUS - "See You Again" (44 pts)

There doesn't seem to be a video for this, or at least it's not on YouTube - here is the "full length album version".

5. BRITNEY SPEARS - "Gimme More" (46 pts)

I'd never actually seen the video before! (embedding disabled). The whole grainy handheld cam thing is creepily Lynchian i.e. I WUZ RIGHT.

4. AVRIL LAVIGNE - "Girlfriend" (54 pts)

The Manichaean video has been embed-disabled: find it here!. Was in 3rd place for ages until a late surge for...[FIND OUT IN A COUPLE OF HOURS!]

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I'd never even heard OF the Miley Cyrus song! How on earth has it ended up so high?

Am unable to shake off creeping feeling that this chart is happening in reverse.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

How it ended up so high: 6 people liked it a lot! I'm also a little surprised by its placing (and "Gimme More" actually).

For the Top 3 entry I'll also list the entire Top 40 (and then there'll be a huge list entry with EVERYTHING in it).

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

It was on skyecaptain's teenpop compilation, and easily one of the best things on it - that was how I heard it, anyway. I'd probably have voted for it if I had voted.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

If it's any consolation, even I have given up any hopes of "All My Friends" turning up at this stage.

I have not been paying enough attention to Ms Cyrus at all (in a "I son't have the time to just sit down and listen to it all" way), but I assume that it's been discussed by koganbot, and it turned up in justfanoe's predictions last week.

Excitement!

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

"All My Friends" or "Piece of Me"? A left boot is riding on this!

Re: Excitement!

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

I was hoping that you'd forgotten that. I think Piece of Me is a shoo-in, what with being the best AND mentalest track on a supremely great and mental album.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

The reason I predicted it was because I knew it was #1 on my ballot and #2 on koganbot's ballot, which I figured had to be enough to get it somewhere on here. I'm somewhat surprised by the high placement of both that and "Gimme More", though.

I did vote for both "Gimme More" and "See You Again", as well as "Potential Break Up Song" (which I assume is in the top 3) and "Call the Shots", which puts me at 1x poptimists consensus.

[koganbot]

piratemoggy put it number four on her list when she did her top twenty-five countdown, though I also remember her saying that she'd botched the deadline and wasn't sure if she was voting in the poptimists poll (or something).

[koganbot]

This is what comes from not reading the lists I post on koganbot - even when you post on the comment thread beneath the lists! - and also your not noticing when I mention everywhere I possibly can that Miley's co-writers on "See You Again," Antonina Armato and Tim James, were Aly & A.J.'s producers and co-writers on "Potential Breakup Song."

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

OMG 'See You Again' is FUCKING AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!

It's like...Bond theme surf guitar + sleeeeek beats + song Garbage would have come up with if they hadn't been so uptight (not that I didn't love them back in the day for the brief moment in time that they were good) + sophisticated hushed backing vox + really amazing lead vocal, menacing and bratty and elusive and sugary all at once + more than a hint of electroclash sneery attitude + "My best friend Lesley says, "Oh, she's just being Miley" which I heard as "my best friend Ashlee" the first three times + is that 'Sunglasses At Night' it nearly turns into at one point?

I can't stop listening to it!

No fucking wonder it's crossing over. It's AMAZING.

AMAZING.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. It's one of my 5 or 10 favorite songs of this decade.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

No wonder she's corrupting (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7165125.stm) the youth of America (http://www.kutv.com/content/news/watercooler/story.aspx?content_id=01686e60-5669-4ef1-b6cc-522198b59263).

[koganbot]

But the presents were wrapped, so the kids didn't know what they were stealing.

[koganbot]

I think the first line of the verse follows the melody to "Sunglasses At Night." But if you go for overall feel, with the ominous reverb and the deep singing, the song is a lot closer to Johnny Cash c. 1962 than to Corey Hart - but a discofied Cash, made sweet by the basic sweetness of Miley singing about being nervous.