POP TRUMPS: Week 3

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Another Friday, another round of Pop Trumps! Rules are here - the way your scores are interpreted are totally up to you, but a 10 will beat a lower score.

Unlike the canons, Pop Trumps is not restricted to artists with at least 10 top 40 hits, and in our next contestant's case that's just as well...


M.I.A
[Poll #1131220]

Xtina ratings:
- Singing voice/musical ability: 8
- Consistency: 6
- H0TTness: 8
- Dancing Skillz/Visual: 6
- Chart success: 8
- Extra-curricular activity: 3
- Party Animal Rating: 4
- Eccentricity: 5
- Legacy: 5
- Best track: Genie In A Bottle
- Botherdness rating: 28

Xtina is officially H0TTer than R Kelly! :-)

Comments

SHOW YOUR WORKINGS

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Singing Voice: For a parrot she aint bad. My 7 is all about the phrasing which is grebt.

Consistency: Can't actually remember what I put. Anyway I like her new album all the way thru but not her last one.

Hottness: "HIT THAT". 7 or 8, can't remember which. Looking like a character from the background of an old Tank Girl strip = the fitness.

Visuals: 10! See brane post for expln.

Chart Success: Arf arf. My 0 is based on the gap between expectation and performance, clearly there are ppl who sell less in this world.

Extra Curricular Activity: Bringing STREET POLITIX to the MASSES via ART +1. Annoying Dissensus dudes +7.

Party Animal: high score. If it is a street party in Calcutta not yr bourgeois so called 'celebrity lifestyle'. Or an art gallery launch obv.

Eccentricity: Well yes.

Legacy: A big 10! I think she is the most important artist in the world, after Scientific Socialism.

Re: SHOW YOUR WORKINGS

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

my 5 for the first one = 0 for her voice but 10 for musical ability in all other respects

RLY?!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

10 for legacy? For serial? Unless she has an ENORMO SMASH HIT soon then I fear she will end up sharing a tent with A Certain Ratio in the queue for space-pensions in 2051.

Re: RLY?!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Remember that I disapprove of the "test of time" so my ways of measuring legacy are perhaps more idiosyncratic!

Re: SHOW YOUR WORKINGS

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

The trouble with this is I forget my workings half a second after ticking! I ended up giving her surprisingly low scores which don't really correlate with how much I like her: the strongest things MIA has going for her are, boringly, her actual songs. The external stuffz is kind of sucky.

Re: SHOW YOUR WORKINGS

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

M.I.A. is not a great pop music artist. She is a musical artist who has written and recorded several great pop songs. There's a difference!