Poptimists Top 40 Of 2007 Part 7

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Right, here's the full list - INCLUDING those tracks that got more than 1 vote but didn't place in the Top 40. The huuuuuuge list of tracks that got 1 vote only will follow in a couple of hours.

52. Charlotte Hatherley - "Behave"
51. Patrick Wolf - "The Magic Position"
50. Battles - "Atlas"
49. Trina - "Single Again"
48. Eve - "Tambourine"
47. Enrique Iglesias - "Do You Know (The Ping Pong Song)"
46. Gui Boratto - "Beautiful Life"
45. Leona Lewis - "Bleeding Love"
44. Siobhan Donaghy - "Don't Give It Up"
43. Art Brut - "Direct Hit"
42. Amy Winehouse - "Rehab"
41. Cobra Starship - "Guilty Pleasure"
40. FEIST - "My Moon My Man (Boyz Noize Remix")
39. CASSIE - "Turn The Lights Off"
38. KATE NASH - "Foundations"
37. RIHANNA - "Lemme Get That"
36. CORTNEY TIDWELL - "Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (Ewan's Objects In Space Remix)"
35. ROISIN MURPHY - "Overpowered"
34. MIA - "Jimmy"
33. TIMBALAND ft KERI HILSON - "The Way I Are"
32. NELLY FURTADO - "Say It Right"
31. KLAXONS - "Golden Skans"
30. ASHLEY TISDALE - "Not Like That"
29. NATASHA BEDINGFIELD - "I Wanna Have Your Babies"
28. ALY & AJ - "Blush"
27. CASSIE - "Is It You?"
26. DRAGONETTE - "Competition"
25. COBRA STARSHIP - "Damn You Look Good And I'm Drunk (Scandalous)"
24. DIZZEE RASCAL - "Pussy'ole (Old Skool)"
23. FALL OUT BOY - "This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race"
22. LLOYD ft LIL WAYNE - "You"
21. THE SOUNDS - "Tony The Beat (Rex The Dog Remix)
20. T2 ft JODIE AYSHA - "Heartbroken"
19. MIA - "Boyz"
18. GIRLS ALOUND - "Sexy! No No No"
17. FREEMASONS ft BAILEY TZUKE - "Uninvited"
16. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - "Someone Grebt"
15. GROOVE ARMADA ft MUTYA BUENA - "Song 4 Mutya (Out Of Control)"
14. KANYE WEST - "Stronger"
13. BRITNEY SPEARS - "Get Naked (I Has A Plan)
12. LIL MAMA - "Lip Gloss"
11. FALL OUT BOY - "The Take Over, The Break's Over"
10. AMERIE - "Gotta Work"
9. GIRLS ALOUD - "Call The Shots"
8. MIA - "Paper Planes"
7. KLEERUP ft ROBYN - "With Every Heartbeat"
6. MILEY CYRUS - "See You Again"
5. BRITNEY SPEARS - "Gimme More"
4. AVRIL LAVIGNE - "Girlfriend"

3. BRITNEY SPEARS - "Piece Of Me" (56 pts)

Gimme moar NON-DISABLED EMBEDDING PLS. Multiple Britney lookalikes in nightclub toilets or something. Derriere. Magazine.

2. ALY AND AJ - "The Potential Break-Up Song" (71 pts)

They want their stuff back. Arty!

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1. RIHANNA ft JAY-Z - "Umbrella" (133 pts)

Yes, that is more than #2 and #3 put together. Ay ay ay!

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Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Miss Trina! Should have been higher but at least there.

I thought Amy Winehouse would be higher, though I didn't think she'd be represented by 'Rehab' which is from well inside 2006 and feels much older. I was quite close to voting for 'Back To Black'.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I was a little surprised at the poor showing for Winehouse too given how hugely well her singles always seem to do. A couple of other songs got stray votes.

Maybe her meltdown eclipsed her music, whereas Brit's seemed to go hand-in-hand with it.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Her whole album just feels like a 2006 item - like 'Say It Right' and 'Glamorous' I didn't really feel I should vote for 'Back To Black' because even though it was an 07 single its impact was more from the previous year. Lord knows how 'Rehab' ended up here though.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I voted for "Rehab". Admittedly at the time I submitted my ballot I'd forgotten it was originally a 2006 release. But Amy's pretty much dominated 2007 for good or ill and I've warmed to her more and more as time has worn on. (Literally today I ordered the album from Amazong.) This track still seems to me the most significant track, even though I like all the singles taken from the album. Loads of different people have covered it now, from GA to Justin to Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra. I particularly liked Wayne Marshall's parody, "Weed Bag" (which in turn further boosted my regard for the writing and the arrangement of the original).

Also it's been in the charts ever since the download rules were relaxed - still in the Top 75 now.

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

If I'd done my list based on stuff I'd got into during 2007 (of whatever era), then "Rehab" would have been on it, and probably quite high.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, all the italicised songs got 2 votes except Leona and Gui Boratto got 3 (though none very high on a list obviously!)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Every time Amy's had a public meltdown this year, 'Rehab' has gone back up the charts.

[koganbot]

"Rehab" was 2007 in the Murrica; just as "Say It Right" was 2006 in the Land Of Vespucci.

[edgeofwhatever.livejournal.com]

'Rehab' which is from well inside 2006

Not for Americans, though -- we got "You Know I'm No Good" first, "Rehab" second, in the beginning of 2007.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah you had that funny Ghostface guest verse on 'You Know I'm No Good'. Funny peculiar (a bit funny ha ha, too).

I forget where I saw this, and have mislaid the link, but 'Back To Black' was one of Nicole Richie's top 7 singles of 07. To which I say, where is your own long-awaited album, bitch?

[edgeofwhatever.livejournal.com]

Probably on ONTD (http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/19028731.html) -- she ranked it right above "Valerie," guess she's a fan of the whole Ronson family.

Was "Dandelions" actually Nicole, does anyone know?

Observations:

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

- Highest British record: 8. Highest record with a male lead vocal: 11. Pretty much bears out the feeling on the community that it's been a sucky year for British pop music, and also suggests it's not just Frank who's been unimpressed with male voices this year.

(Though cos "pop" tends to be feminine-identified and because this is a "pop community" there'll generally be a bias in the voting towards female acts, I guess).

- I get the impression that the teenpop crew haven't felt 07 was a banner year for teenpop, but even so this looks like a pretty teenpop list! (Depending what you count Britney as currently). Maybe this is because the votes of the US poptimists into teenpop were more coherently together than the UK ones, i.e. BECAUSE standouts were rare they carried greater weight.

- Stuff in the Top 40 I actively dislike: only the Gnasher (and even then it's become a love-to-hate sort of thing).

- Stuff in the Top 40 I think is mediocre or OK but cant see what it's doing here: Feist, Roisin (tho this is the best Roisin song), Ashley (compared to "Be Good To Me" anyway), Dragonette, Miley Cyrus. I like "Get It Shawty" more than "You" and "All My Friends" better than "Someone Great", too, but don't mind those two tracks. "Blush" I can see why people go wild for but it doesn't move me at all though I think it's a good tune.

So basically it's a good list! When I actually think about the top 10 most of those singles are doing different things very well though I'd like a top 10 in which even more different things went on (involving men, or rappers, or rockers).

Re: Observations:

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

yeah it's a good list.

but don't forget the Pop Open (the suspense be killing me)!

Re: Observations:

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Normal orgafun service resumes tomorrow with Pop Open reveals!

I can't then put up the next duel until I move, though, unless I fwd the tracks to you or Alan, come to think of it.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

and I'd also be interested to know what got nominated for 'best video' and 'most fanciable person' (tho botherd about having a poll on these now)

Re: Observations:

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I wonder how the top 10 here will compare with the top ten chart-poll ticks?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

and also this is the 2nd time that a poptimist thread has ignored Jay-Z's male rapping contribution to Umbrella! :-)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Not ignored!! I was just not counting it as a "lead vocal"

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Fair nuff - it is amusing to think of it as a reflection on the redundancy of the rap tho :)

I saw the video twice on Hits!TV yesterday - it's still well poor (apart from the 'all you need and moaaaar' bit which made me CRY the second time round! Still! After 100000x listens!) but I keep noticing new things about the SONG each time. Like how Jay-Z calls her 'Ree-harner' instead of 'Ree-anner'.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I pretty much know the Jay-Z rap off by heart, but it's got to the stage where I've heard it so much that I have no idea whether it's any good or not.

People say the Lil' Mama remix is better, and her rap is obv better, but it misses Rihanna's second verse :(

[koganbot]

I prefer the original because it's got more of the basic song itself, despite my liking for Miss Umbuberella Mama. I basically forget that Jay-Z has anything to do with this, since once he's done with the starting rap he's gone. If you took his rap out the song would be better, but it doesn't get in the way, is just an intro.

[edgeofwhatever.livejournal.com]

Actually, if you take his rap out it's kind of boring. I (badly) stitched together the intro from the Jayless version (which has a slightly different/annoying mix on Rihanna's vocals) and Rihanna's vocals from the single version (which is just better) to see if it made a difference, and Jay-free it's just...off.

Re: Observations:

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

The MIA choices are mildly perplexing - not because they're any bad (well apart from 'Boyz' which is just a bit dull) but because 'Hussel' and 'Bamboo Banga' are so much better.

Actually the list is mostly fine, bar a Gnash here and an emo there - what riles isn't so much what's on it as what got left off it despite being ten thousand times as good.

Great top three, mind. Almost exactly my own.

Re: Observations:

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

But 'Boyz' and 'Paper Planes' were/are singles, unlike 'Bamboo Banga'. I imagine there will have been votes for those two from people who haven't yet heard the album, just the singles.

Re: Observations:

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think that the stand-outs were few and far between, but the year also had some surprises in it that didn't really code "teenpop" to the (whole) teenpop crew -- i.e., there are probably a lot more general votes for "Potential Break Up Song" than there are from people who posted on teenpop (I know I didn't vote it in my top ten). And I don't really consider Britney teenpop this year, though she obviously gets discussed along with it. Miley's an anomaly in several ways, not least of which is that her single seems to be taking over the (Top 40 radio) world with no support whatsoever from Disney (compare this to the concerted effort to make, say, Aly & AJ's "Rush" take over the world last year).

[koganbot]

My votes:

1. Lloyd f. Lil Wayne "You"
2. Miley Cyrus "See You Again"
3. Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons "Beggin' (Palooski Edit)"
4. Ashley Tisdale "Not Like That"
5. JoJo "Anything"
6. Britney Spears "Gimme More"
7. Cassie "Turn The Lights Off"
8. Yung Berg f. Junior "Sexy Lady"
9. Paula DeAnda f. Lil Wayne "Easy"
10. Aly & AJ "Blush"

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I am going to put my single slist up at some point but have decided to give myself some breathing space and just do it near the end of Jan - I found it absolutely impossible to rank the songs the other week (plus with Idolator and Poptimists only counting a paltry 10, I kept reshuffling based on what needed to be repped for, rather than what I preferred, which I had no idea about).

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Interesting that that's the only Siobhan track to crack the top 50...I would have voted for "12 Bar Acid Blues" or "Medevac" (latter of which is a scheduled 2008 single, I think, former of which did well in one of the orgafun play-offs) but she was more of a top 20-type act for me this year.

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I quite like the Siobhan but I agree it's more of a top 20 type album- "12 Bar Acid Blues" is by far the one I play the most often. Disappointing that this album has flopped, I've be surprised if she gets another one.

[avv.livejournal.com]

she's in 'Rent Remixed' in the west end already! i assumed her pop career was already v dead.

[poptasticuk.livejournal.com]

4 of my top 10 got in the full list. I guess that means about averagely mainstream as a Poptimist. I'm comfortable with that!

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I guess I was lucky that a couple of my tracks bubbled under the top 40. A lot of willfully obscure voting on my part, I guess. That said, I liked a most of what made the list, so fair enoughl.

Vs. weekly polls?

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Curious to see how this will match up against the results of the weekly polls (consensus view vs. personal favorites?)