Popped In Polled Out

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

http://pop.idolator.com/ - Idolator's critic's poll is up. Not a huge number of surprises in the main poll, to be fair (though I wonder if this year their critic base is different from P&J's - it feels more 'webby' (also not surprising).

A cool thing Idolator do is to ask individual critics to make an end of year mix, plus comments, which will be found at the link above (I assume!). I did one for them myself.

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Rihanna welcomes you into her

[koganbot]

A paragraph I like, from comments by the previously unknown to me (as far as I can tell) Stephen Deusner:

casualty of my earlier year-end lists, where it ranked #2 behind "All My Friends," Rihanna got knocked up to my #1 spot on the singles list after I realized how deviously sexual the song is, despite being as lyrically remedial as Justin's "My Love" and barely even coded as deeply as "Shake, Rattle & Roll." It's not just Rihanna singing "come into me," but more convincingly it's the way she sings the word umbrella, deconstructing it to ella ella and then to its essential Canadian syllable - eh eh eh - a linguistic striptease. It's the most sexually intimate moment in music this year.

Re: Rihanna welcomes you into her

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Stephen Deusner writes for P4K and is active on the staff messageboard there - like most of the people there, he seems like a good guy, and I love that take on the ey ey ey.