POP TRUMPS: Week 10

[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!

Our first posthumous pop trump contestant! This chap is probably one of the most respected musicians evar, but is/was he a good popstar?


Johnny Cash

[Poll #1165654]

Kanye ratings:
- Singing voice/musical ability: 6
- Consistency: 6
- H0TTness: 4
- Dancing Skillz/Visual: 6
- Chart success: 7
- Extra-curricular activity: 6
- Party Animal Rating: 5
- Eccentricity: 5
- Legacy: 7
- Best track: Gold Digger

Comments

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

I think for me consistency is the issue here rather than legacy. He's clearly a huge shaping influence on modern American rock and country, but aside from the early greats and the late Rick Rubin-produced stuff much of his work is nigh unlistenable to me. I have some of the Christmas stuff and it's truly, truly awful.

I suppose the 'revisionist history' of country is the same revisionist history of the old west and American history in general.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I guess it's the reinvention of things as "cool" in ways that leech some of the complexity and contradiction out of them.