poptimists | POP TRUMPS: Week 1

Welcome to your brand-new-for-2008 Friday orga-fun! Obviously this is still in the teething stages, so comments/suggestions for improvements welcome.

You may be familiar with the trading card game Top Trumps (with which this poll is in no way affiliated), where various members of a certain set (superheroes, aircraft, dudes from Hollyoaks) do battle against each other. If one player's random card beats another in the named category, the player keeps both cards and gets to choose the next category, and so on.

My aim is for

poptimists to create its very own set of Pop Trumps! Which I will almost certainly MAKE and bring along to a future Poptimism. Each week you will be rating a randomly-selected (from my big Spreadsheet Of Doom) pop act over a number of categories, subtley gleaned from you lot a while back.

- Singing voice/musical ability
- Consistency (average quality of output - you may wish to refer to the Canon Index or everyhit here)
- HOTTness [phwoar]
- Dancing Skillz [extended to include all VISUAL entertainment, videos etc]
- Chart success [UK/US/Global - up to you to define 'success']
- Extra-curricular activity [acting/astrophysics/ballroom dancing etc]
- Party Animal Rating [naughty or nice?]
- Eccentricity [Diva or down-to-earth? Awesome or boresome?]
- Legacy

The marks you give are very much open to interpretation - is controversy something YOU like to see in a popstar or are you sick of seeing them in the papers? The only guideline here is that 10 is the highest score (and will 'beat' a lower score) and 0 is the lowest. There's no need to vote for every category, but if you are really undecided then you can give an average 5 score.

Tie-breaker: at the end you have the option name that artist's BEST track. If you don't have a favourite track by that artist then just type in something random to state your disapproval!

The ratings will be announced the following Friday.

e.g. My votes for Diana Ross would be something along these lines:

- Singing voice/musical ability: 7
- Consistency: 4
- H0TTness: 3
- Dancing Skillz: 4
- Chart success: 9
- Extra-curricular activity: 3
- Party Animal Rating: 5
- Eccentricity: 10
- Legacy: 7
- Best track: Upside Down

Make sense? Good!

So! On to our first contestant!