POP TRUMPS: Week 7

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The rules are here but it couldn't be simpler. 10 is the highest, 0 is the lowest, if you really don't know then go for 5. Giving reasons for your scores in the comments is encouraged!

This week it's Miss Dead Swan herself! A zillion albums later and she still looks like the same mischievous pixie. But is she pop or not?


Bjork

[Poll #1150387]

Sugababes ratings:
- Singing voice/musical ability: 8
- Consistency: 6
- H0TTness: 7
- Dancing Skillz/Visual: 6
- Chart success: 8
- Extra-curricular activity: 4
- Party Animal Rating: 5
- Eccentricity: 4
- Legacy: 6
- Best track: Freak Like Me

Comments

those spider lyrics in full by bjork aged 5

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

Sticky spider webs catching fly.
Poisonous spider creepy.
Insects fly in the shining webs.
Delicious spider have spotty.
Every spider make big webs.
Running around the country.

spider! spider! spider!

Re: those spider lyrics in full by bjork aged 5

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

aged 5? I'd swear those are real actual lyrics from Vespertine

TRUFACT (it sez so on wiki ergo...): Bjork's earliest known recording is a cover of "I Love To Love" by Tina Charles.

what is the opposite of bell?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

haha at hottness spread

Re: what is the opposite of bell?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

boo at the hotness thread no longer flatlining all scores equal that was funny

Re: what is the opposite of bell?

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Doing what?

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Points for extra-curricular activity for her amazing acting performance in 'Dancer In The Dark'.

WOT NO '11' option for eccentricity?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I gave a high eccentricity mark cos she's unusual for a pop star but if you think of her as part of an 'art community' she's not really! She's unpredictable but not surprising.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

she'd be considered wildly eccentric within any 'art community' for her commercial instincts and willingness - if not actual intent - to cross over to the mainstream though!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

if bjork gets 11 where d'you put wacko jacko or phil spector? i don't think she's much more extreme than "carefully quirky" (except in alex's sense)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

oh I wouldn't give her 11 - I gave her 9. she's no Mariah.

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

is POP TRUMPS! is not ART TRUMPS! (which would be grebt fun prob)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

yeah Dancer In The Dark was SERIOUSLY amazing, plus: beef with Lars von Trier! She tried to EAT HER COSTUME!

BJORK POXX

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Jóga
Bachelorette
Human Behaviour
Play Dead
Come To Me
Hidden Place
Big Time Sensuality
Sod Off
Hunter
Pagan Poetry
Pluto
Isobel
One Day
Unravel
I've Seen It All
I Go Humble
Enjoy
Bella Símamær
Oceania (remix ft. Kelis)
I Miss You

Re: BJORK POXX

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

'Sod Off'???

Did I miss this?

Re: BJORK POXX

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

it's a b-side from, I think, 'Jóga'. It's AMAZING, swooping and sweeping and grand. it doesn't sound like its title.

Google Image Search is yr friend

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Seriously dudes check it out (http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=bjork+outfits&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi)

Re: Google Image Search is yr friend

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

once again we turn (http://gofugyourself.typepad.com/go_fug_yourself/2006/01/its_true_that_i.html) to gofugyourself (http://gofugyourself.typepad.com/go_fug_yourself/2005/06/fugger_in_the_d.html) at this point!

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I have always felt slightly kinky for fancying Bjork. I am aware that there is nothing abnormal about fancying her whatsoever but it still seems slightly wrong.

My Analysis

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

I'd never really thought much about it:

Bjork sucks.

[datura800.livejournal.com]

Bjork is the archetype of a hugely talented artist who took her own hype far too seriously and disappeared up her own rear. 'Drawing Restraint No.9' is seriously one of the worst albums I have ever heard, and her recent studio albums have been enormously disappointing.

Bjork's extra-curricular activities, then..

[http://users.livejournal.com/xyzzzz__/]

Absolutely love that industrial s/d track for the Lars von trier's 'Dancer in the Dark'. The film itself I couldn't get on w/at all. I love that Bjork called him an idiot, her presence on the film and that album seem to be the only redeeming features..