Another Year In Pop: 20

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Madge is knocked off the top again - this time not by German hyperbosh but by some shouty indie-pop! Meanwhile, Ashlee and Santogold are still climbing, Chanelle Off Big Brother's debut single goes in at no.63 and Snap's 'Rhythm Is A Dancer' pops up at 71 due to this...

[Poll #1190243]

Comments

Re: You won't get no desert until you clean off your plate

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I want to hear 'Haunted' now! Talking of Rihanna's single-minded emotional obsessiveness, did you ever hear 'Cry' (was a UK bonus track on Good Girl Gone Bad) or 'Final Goodbye' (A Girl Like Me album track)? Same thing exhibited there.

Re: You won't get no desert until you clean off your plate

[koganbot]

I quite like "Cry," was one of my reasons for putting the alb in my top ten. Haven't heard "Final Goodbye" (or any of A Girl Like Me except the hits).

Re: You won't get no desert until you clean off your plate

[koganbot]

Wait, I have heard A Girl Like Me about a year and a half ago. (Was confusing it with Music Of The Sun, which I haven't heard.) I remember making a note of liking "Final Goodbye." Am listening now, is the one whose rhythm and sad lilt reminded me of "Greensleeves."

Re: You won't get no desert until you clean off your plate

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Yes! I's a fascinating track because what leaps out first is her anguish, and paired with the title you assume the song's about the pain of farewells. Then you listen to the lyrics, and it's actually a declaration of unswerving love and loyalty, so you think, so why the anguish? Then you notice how the one thing complicating the love and loyalty is the narrator's obsession with her own mortality, recurring in every chorus, and THAT'S the goodbye of the title...so beneath the declaration of undying love there's this constant awareness that nothing is undying.