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[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Hello everyone, I'm doing some impromptu research.

[Poll #1264707]

As I said above, it's not a test so don't get too neurotic about it, I'm just curious. Feel free to discuss The State Of Pop In 2008 further in the comments, if you want. Linking to YouTube videos and that is very much encouraged; get on a soapbox.

Comments

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I think the lack of a real unifier, as Kat identified above, is a very significant factor this year. Nearly all pop that we've got excited about has been splinter-group pop in one way or another. Everyone has stuff they love, but there's nothing that everyone loves.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Don't understand - there's been a lot of great singles this year, but surely nothing's going to touch American Boy in the polls?

(though I understand that it's a single, not a movement like Bassline)

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I really don't like 'American Boy' and I don't think I'm totally alone in that. I don't understand why it got such a mindblowing response.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

"Hooray Estelle triumphs over Racism" + best line this year ("Dress up like a London Bloke / Before he speak, his suit bespoke" + worst line this year ("Who's killing them in the UK? / Everybody gonna say "You, K") +
"Tell em wha a gwan blud" + all the chimey keyboards and bumpy bass and error-message buzzers and how they all shift in and out + little end-of-line whoops and laughs from Estelle through Kanye's rap + the way Kanye says "Rubbish" + past the point where most songs would fade, that lovely "could you be mine, love"

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

+ also the small matter of what it does to a dancefloor.

[koganbot]

Sounds too much like Tashbed, Amy, et al.

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

But have you heard the Bassline mix? It is AWESOME. Most played track on my ipod this year.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It's a fine record but I don't think it'll make my Top 10. I expect it to be "there or thereabouts" in the final poll tho, but not a runaway winner.