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]

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.