Ask Doctor Pop

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I got into work at 8 this morning and am very bored, so have decided to reinstitute ASK DOCTOR POP. Ask a question about pop. The good doctor, through his representative on the interwebs, will endeavour to answer.

[Poll #1295932]

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[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Q2: Is Alesha Dixon the only popstar to have failed to sell her wedding dress on ebay (http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/nov/12/alesha-dixon-pop-rock)?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

katstevens: YES! (http://cancer.iaea.org/doctor.asp?id=13)

braisedbywolves: He showed up on the Timbaland album last year and the T.I. album this year. Or was it the Young Jeezy one? He is still a fashionable young blade.

dubdobdee: She has recorded seven albums I'll have you know! She is superstitious about talking about her new material though.

byebyepride: I predict about a year's worth of awkwardly worthy political rap from genre figureheads. Mash-ups are already the white man's CNN.

carsmilesteve: Not at long as people keep buying View records. That's what did for Gomorrah you know.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Dr Pop says "Yes, though I believe Nik Kershaw's cummerbund only went for 10 pence"

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Er dudes Justin Timberlake had a number 1 this year with Madonna!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Dr Pop apologises profusely.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

bengraham: Beyonce's already won on title and concept, and I've downloaded what I *think* is the new Beyonce (though it only has 11 tracks split across 2 discs). I suspect the Britney will be a worse version of Blackout: since Blackout was awesome this might still be pretty good. But I'll go with Bouncy.

[epicharmus.livejournal.com]

Forgive me if my question's already been asked--I think it may have.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

apparently JT is focusing on writing and producing for other artists for the moment - a couple of demos purporting to be by him are doing the rounds but no one seems that enthused, and I haven't been bothered to d/l them.

his spot on TI's 'Dead And Gone' is one of his best vocal performances I think.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

it's the "standard version" of the Beyonce album - the "deluxe version" will have 16 tracks split across two discs. it's quite an effective whetting-the-appetite trick! (assuming, as I tend to do now, that the record label is behind the leak.) it's also one of my albums of the year already - the ballads especially.

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

Belated reply to koganbot's question whether Nietzsche is the only famous person with five consecutive consonants:

Every mass has a characteristic radius, such that if the mass were compressed into that radius, it would collapse into a gravitational singularity (black holeish thing). This famous radius is named for the German physicist Karl Schwartzschild – six consonants!