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

[credoimprobus]

Augh, Katy Perry. I am so conflicted about that song -- on the one hand, I really like it on a purely musical level, and (unlike most folks round here, it seems) really like her voice; but on the other I (as many others) have issue on SO MANY LEVELS with the handling of the topic, which fact has put me increasingly off the song with each successive time I've heard it. And the video, ugh! Her vocal performance at least delivers some proper drama, sells the possibility of some real confusion going on behind all the posturing...and then in the video she comes in with her smirky, knowing, nudge-nudge wink-wink manner and stomps all over the very idea that anyone might take it seriously. (And dere god the pussycat at the beginning. YOU ARE SO VERY SUBTLE, KATY PERRY, YES YOU ARE.)

I think if this had come up in the poll a month ago when it was still fresh to me (and I had not yet had some misheard lyrics corrected for the worse), I would have ticked it With Reservations on musical merit, but by this point my politics will no longer let me do so in good conscience. TICK WITHHELD FOR OVERWHELMING AMOUNTS OF FAIL.