Another Year In Pop: 19

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Madge is still at the top, and Coldplay get into the top 10 despite giving their single away for free! Some people have no sense when it comes to economics, do they?

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Re: Why is this so lame?!?!

[koganbot]

Hah! I never heard the Ally McBeal babe, though I do know she did a cover of my FAVORITE SONG IN THE WORLD (when I was nine years old), Skeeter Davis's "The End Of The World." I've been afraid to listen to any other versions of that track, though they're all over. (Well, have heard Brenda Lee's version, which was OK, but Lee was going jazz in the phrasing to avoid sounding too much like the original which only proved how good the original was, in that it forced Lee to evade it.)

When I said "Tashbed" I was using her as a stand-in for the whole "quirky" Brit coffeetable singer-songwriter trend: Tashbed, Tunstall, Amy, Duffy, Adele, Nash, Cilmi (though obviously they all have their own subterritories, and Cilmi is Aussie), Tashbed getting to be the leader of the coffee klasch here, and probably the best - or at least the most genuinely twisted - though I like all of them at least a little. I even said something nice about Nash once. (Cilmi's album is really disappointing though. So far she's only got one good song.) (Not sure why I don't include Lily Allen in that crew, since she's surely an influence on some of 'em, but she seems to be her own genre.)

I've found two more Duff tracks where she's in character as the bad Russian pop singer, and unlike the one I linked for you and those two tracks are truly terrible.

Re: Why is this so lame?!?!

[koganbot]

klasch = klatsch