Another Year In Pop: 36

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For once there's a reasonable number of new entries this week, phew. Who'd have thought we'd be nostalgic for the turbulent charts of the early 2000s? But are any of these fresh new hits good enough to quench the pop thirst we developed over the summer drought?

[Poll #1255714]
Rest of chart news: Katy Perry's still at number one, and look - what's this? Paper Planes has popped up at no.69! About blimmin' time if you ask me.

Congratulations are also in order to THE TING TINGS who won this year's Lex 20p Indie Prize by a clear margin of 5 whole votes. Why not go and watch their most recent video? I think it's pretty good!

Comments

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PCD - definite tick! This is great and ridiculous and fully deserved to win a video award last night.

GCH - this is alright, I guess? Travis is rapping just a leetle bit too slowly. I am invoking the Boney Joan rule here in that I love it when Kanye raps really slowly (like on Flashing Lights) but everyone else is bobbins at it.

SM - what the HELL is going in this video :( Normally if you said 'irish jig plus filter house' I would be full of CHEER but JEBUS DO NOT WANT. It's so limp and muddy compared to eg Samim's 'Heater'.

Duffy - this well reminds me of Terence Trent D'Arby's 'Sign Your Name Across My Heart' but without the spookiness. She looks good in trousers though! This is a much better video than the sobbing-inna-taxi one. Actually I've decided I like this. Tick!

Bryn - hahahha the tags on his youtube video are "Pop Soul r&b quest smiling smile motown stax retro". Song is pretty turgid in a sub-Gnarls Barkley way, video disappointing. Better than David Jordan though! Keeping trying Universal, you'll get there eventually.

NKOTB - ARF they have to flash their names up in case we don't recognise them! Joey and Jordan look SO OLD and Donny and Danny look like ROBOTS. Song's bobbins.

Flobots - lame.

Cancer lasses - bwahahaha there's a great vid (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfbxxd01mzk) where light shines out of each of their heads as they sing! Mary J's blonde highlights dazzle everyone else until Mariah's HUGE FACE right in the middle takes over... No tick though.