ext_88055 ([identity profile] katstevens.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] poptimists2008-10-20 12:09 pm
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Another Year In Pop: 42

Pink has hung on to the top spot, fighting off stiff competition from a comedian in drag and last year's X Factor dude (Same Difference were ROBBED why yes I am still bitter).

Probably-X-Factor-related re-entry watch: Boyz II Men's 'I'll Make Love To You' in at no.89, U2's 'With Or Without You' at no. 66.

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[identity profile] alexmacpherson.livejournal.com 2008-10-20 12:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Thing is, someone like Beyonce can make a budget-tastic video (I am quite sure the clip for 'Single Ladies' cost substantially less than the Saturdays one) but can still make it good because she is a GREAT POP STAR and has, like, charisma and class. Whereas the poor Saturdays girls...just, no. Comparisons to the Pussycat Dolls render them even more redundant (NB: new PCDs single is an amazing windswept ballad and the video features Nicole playing a PIANO on a BEACH!)

[identity profile] katstevens.livejournal.com 2008-10-20 12:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I just had a look at it! At one point one of them sprawls herself over a pinball table in the middle of the desert, whilst Nicole's car breaks down and she gets a WOLF to come and fix it???

[identity profile] alexmacpherson.livejournal.com 2008-10-20 12:44 pm (UTC)(link)
It's quite the video for flora and fauna - I also note a snake, sundry butterflies and a BABY DEER which never actually appears after the wolf arrives on the scene.
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[personal profile] koganbot 2008-10-20 01:42 pm (UTC)(link)
It's half-ballad and half-groove and I think works better than the two full-on grooves that preceded it.

(The YouTube vid I saw of it was followed-on by Lady Gaga. What do you think of her? I haven't heard her album. Jimmy Draper is intrigued by it, though I think there's someone here - was it piratemoggy? - who hates it.)

[identity profile] alexmacpherson.livejournal.com 2008-10-20 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't like Lady Gaga and have no idea why her video's been appended to the PCDs' one - she smacks very much of "I"M SO CRAZEEEE" forced wackiness.
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[personal profile] koganbot 2008-10-20 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
In "Just Dance" Gaga is clumsy in the way she falls over the music, but it is a tremendous song and can carry her weight. If the album had more like that it could be quite good, but the clumsiness has been why I've not gotten around to it.

[identity profile] piratemoggy.livejournal.com 2008-10-20 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I kind of dislike Lady GaGa as a whole but somehow seem to play 'Just Dance' at least four times a day and sort of really, really love it to death. 'Beautiful Dirty Rich' annoys the pants off me, though.

[identity profile] piratemoggy.livejournal.com 2008-10-20 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
WHAT?! THE SONG WRITES ITS OWN (SEASONAL) VIDEO: DRIVING SLOW, THROUGH THE SNOW, ON FIFTH AVENUE. D:

If they'd done what they should have done and released Elevator now and then 'I Hate This Part' as a Christmastide single THEY WOULD BE HERALDED AS OUR NEW GOD(DESSE)S.

This is why we can't have nice things. :(
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