POP TRUMPS: Week 5

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Another Friday, another round of chart farts Pop Trumps!

Go here to read the rules, but it's easy really. Rate the pop act below in the various categories: 10 is the highest, 0 is the lowest, if you have zero clue then go for 5.

Today's contestants were doing a Top 50 Brilliant Boybands thing on Hits!TV the other night, and modestly only included 5 of their own songs! They also like pointing at things.


Backstreet Boys

[Poll #1138876]
Alanis ratings:
- Singing voice/musical ability: 5
- Consistency: 4
- H0TTness: 3
- Dancing Skillz/Visual: 3
- Chart success: 7
- Extra-curricular activity: 4
- Party Animal Rating: 2
- Eccentricity: 7
- Legacy: 6
- Best track: You Oughta Know
- Botherdness rating: 33

Comments

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Maybe the public reaction wasn't great, but I thought (and think) that "Incomplete" and "Just Want You to Know" are both really good singles.

[edgeofwhatever.livejournal.com]

I really like "Incomplete," actually. It's right up there with "Show Me the Meaning..." BSB definitely does mournful better (and more) than 'NSync, I'll give them that -- there's something about the combination of their voices that sounds desperate. (Possibly it's the fact that they don't have a lead singer, so they all sing the same part and it's just this barrage of need. 'NSync mostly puts Justin and JC out in front, with the other guys layered underneath, so there's less force to their grief. But it's also that Justin and JC are both too cocky to mourn; they do the dumping, while BSB mostly gets dumped.)

I don't remember "Just Want You to Know," but I remember being unimpressed with that album as a whole. And I forget what the new single sounds like!