Another Year In Pop: 31

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Some movement in the top ten at last! Kid Rock has turfed Dizzee off the top spot, the Script have whinged their way up to number 3 and Katy Perry's questionable ode to lesbianism is the highest new entry at 4 (its bosh remix is at no.50!), making this week's poll an aptly all-girl affair...

[Poll #1234871]

Comments

[koganbot]

Seems to me that we could count Heidi Montag and "Disturbia" as electropop (Kat's Eiffel 65 comparison is on point, actually, though I don't see where that's a criticism) and count Cassie as electro in her own, more austere way, too, so we could say that electro is growing in various r&b directions while Kylie et al. are unable to grow with it. (Which doesn't explain why Kylie et al. were so blah this time out, however, since not growing doesn't make one's music bad, necessarily.)

Of course, all along we could have also been counting bounce and crunk as electropop, if we'd wanted to.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

'Disturbia', 'Don't Stop The Music' et al are virtually electrohouse, just with big pop choruses on top, so they have their cake and eat it while the Saturdays are left with breadcrumbs (ie neither going as hard at the dancefloor nor having any chorus to speak of at all).