Another Year In Pop: 21

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Not that I'm unhappy to see it, but - Snap??

[Poll #1194434]

Comments

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

NO TICK:
Alphabeat -ugh ugh ugh why is this band meant to be saving pop music or whatever? They sound like the crapper echelons of Eurovision.

Fratellis- like Kat I have only heard about two seconds of this in an advert but it sounded like a castrated version of 'Chelsea Dagger' so NO.

Zutons- it is the Zutons of course I am not ticking it. On the other hand, Bloke From The Zutons has grown his hair and actually looks sort of attractive in the video. Woman From The Zutons is still frighteningly thin, however.

Ting Tings- technically I haven't heard this but I am going to say it's crap. Is it the one on the iTunes advert? If so it is definitely crap.

Gusto- absolutely dire re-rub of a song that was never my favouritest thing ever.

TICK:
Snap- this song is evidently amazing. I feel somewhat wrong ticking it, though, like I'm cheating because this song has been amazing for bloody years and I just feel like there ought to be something new and good to tick. Or something.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

It's not the iTunes one, no. It's the one where she goes "and the drums, and the drums, and the drums" etc etc.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Aha! The one from iTunes is at no.49.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Ah. I shall reward myself for... something or another, maybe washing my hair, by not listening to it until I am fully awake.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

And it's actually pretty good, I think (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwCAo-EwavA)! Coming to an indie disco near you.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Man alive Alphabeat are poor.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I really, really, really do not understand why, of all the acts that could be imported from Scandinavia, they are getting any attention whatsoever. We could be having Melody Club at least but nooooo, we must have a sort of cross between Playschool and a DFS advert. They sound like some of the crap bands from Aber, only sort of with less excuse because they're not students gratuitously forming bands because no one comes out here to play.

Actually this goes for the Ting Tings as well.

Gosh, I am misanthropic today.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I'd avoid reading this then:

http://www.popjustice.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2594&Itemid=9

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Or this:

http://www.popjustice.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2376&Itemid=9

[koganbot]

Being a monomaniac, I only read the Ashlee-related bits, but what's clear here is that Santi didn't feel on her own ground in that room, writing for Ashlee. (Btw, was Ashlee in the room? Maybe Ashlee wouldn't have felt on home ground, either. On the Ashlee Simpson Show Ashlee was sitting in what could have been a suburban rec room, probably Shanks's studio, with John Shanks, a lovable bear of a man, he would be holding a guitar and trying out licks or teasing her and inducing her to do Britney parodies, she would sing or not sing and be holding a writing pad, there'd be a tape player in the background. Didn't look at all like a silver-tray setup. I wonder if the silver trays at the "Outta My Head" congregation were there for Timbo.) Anyway, I empathize with Santi's feeling. The next question that she could have been asked is why Ashlee gets all these people to create better material for her than they often create for others.

[koganbot]

Actually, Katie seems rather sweet. Maybe that's the problem; she really doesn't think she's any big deal, or all that great, so she brings the music down to what she thinks is representative of her. (Does that make sense? That to be better would make her someone she didn't believe in?)

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Mmm, I thought that from that interview. They seem like charming people; there's nothing I have against them personally, their music is just utterly horrible to my ears.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

this is a rubbish rubbish song. if we stop looking at them, perhaps they'll go away

[pot80.livejournal.com]

No! No! No! That's NOT TRUE!