Another Year In Pop: 43

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

We have a new number one! That makes it 18 singles going straight into the top ten for Girls Aloud (only their third #1, mind), round of applause there.

[Poll #1285924]

Bonkers re-entry watch: Purple Rain by Prince. Any ideas?

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I've still only heard "The Promise" once - I am inclined to think it's Any Good At All but not Much Good At All, but I'll see how rotation suits it.

re. The Game - did you read that series of blog posts from a month or so ago on "post-lyrical" hip-hop (I can't remember where exactly) making the argument that the success of Lil Wayne and Kanye is a definitive break from the Nas ideal of storytelling hip-hop? This has almost nothing to do with The Game now I come to type it.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

No, which blog! That makes sense but tbh I think the storytelling ideal of hip-hop hadn't been the genre's dominant mode for a long while before either Kanye or Wayne.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

http://brandonsoderberg.blogspot.com/2008/09/raps-post-lyrical-phase.html

(and there's a part ii and part iii too)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

ooh awesome, thanks - i shall read when i need to procrastinate. erm.

The 20-20 vision was right on the butt

[koganbot]

Storytelling hip-hop has never been the dominant mode, just one choice among many. A lot of my favorites were the ones who could go in and out of story at the drop of a hat: Spoonie Gee, Eminem, Roxanne Shanté.

Then she looked at me and then she started swishin'/So I tooka the key out of the ignition (except it's 1979, not 1981 as that says). You'll like this one.