Another Year In Pop: 32

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

For better or worse, Katy Perry is this week's brand new Number 1. Rihanna moves up into the top ten, and in inexplicable re-entry news, Baz Luhrmann's in at no.72 with 'Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)'. Okaaay.

[Poll #1238683]

Comments

Baz?

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Wait a minute, how on earth could anyone have possibly used that song (in a TV ad or whatever the hell else) in a way to de-novelty it enough to get on the charts? Just heard "Mambo No. 5" in the supermarket the other day, enjoyed it, but I imagine that once you hit a certain kinda one-hit-wonder ubiquity, there's a much much longer moratorium on how long it takes yer song to be repurpose-able. Though to be fair, I saw a 2005 (or 6?) Austrian movie that used "Macarena" admirably. (Ditto the use of "Down on Bended Knee" in the awful Gus Van Sant Kurt Cobain movie.)

Re: Baz?

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Woop, the film was "Free Radicals," more like 2003-4.

Re: Baz?

[koganbot]

Just listened to the Baz, not having previously known it existed.

Perhaps colleges could agree to eliminate commencement addresses?

Re: Baz?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Mambo No.5 was successfully appropriated for test cricket tv coverage over here some years ago - it's not THE cricket music (Soul Limbo is still used on the radio and this will continue until heat death of the universe) but I do immediately think 'cricket' when I hear it now.