Another Year In Pop: 7

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Dudes we've totally got a new number one! Welsh lass Duffy has booted off Basshunter into the murky depths of number three. But is she any good at all?

[Poll #1140294]
NB Tickers should bear in mind that the Utah Saints track is a new remix, 'Something Good '08'.

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

AMAZING:

H2O ft Platnum - I have gone on about this many times already (http://community.livejournal.com/poptimists/516350.html); if you live under a rock and haven't heard it, please don't give me an embolism by admitting it, just tick the damn thing anyway. My favourite bit is when the bassline kicks in one last time for the last go-round, total leap into the air moment. Number one next week I think!

Flo Rida ft T-Pain - I've gone on about this before (http://community.livejournal.com/poptimists/508938.html) as well; I love how I was so negative about its chances on the UK chart. We're still weeks away from its actual release - it's going to be massive. Oops! But I like being proved wrong here because it absolutely deserves its impending ubiquity.

NOT SURE WHAT I THINK:

Duffy - OK, this is a reasonable tune, and she knows how to swing with it a lot better than Adele, but...in what sense is she not just a high-end tribute act to 60s pop? Is there anything of 2008 in this at all? Is there anything of HERSELF? It's so depressing that this appears to capture the mood in this country. It's like everyone's trying to be Amy Winehouse, but has no idea of why Amy Winehouse is great. Kitty Empire's Obs column (http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2257386,00.html) yesterday on this subject was really great, I thought, and I may well start a poptimist thread later. Anyway, Duffy: it is any good at all, we are a few cuts above Adele territory, but I cannot support this at all.

DISAPPOINTING:

Utah Saints - yeah just listen to the new video and og video back to back. ain't no contest. WVS.

Paramore - Avril but more annoying and screechy. It might grow on me but I don't really care yet. Points off for being Xtians.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE FUCK OFF AND DIE:

Simple Plan and OneRepublic.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I like that column and will have plenty to say should you start a thread!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Am going to apres lunch in an hour or so...

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

AGREED on Duffy. It's like, Amy can do that shit because there's no mistaking it, lyrically, for anyone else and definitely not for the 60s soul-pop she's emulating, where as 'Mercy' might as well be a cover version.