POPTIMISTS REVIEW OF 08: Most Horrible Pop Thing

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

As before* this is being done canon-style - you get THREE picks plus! whether you pick the X-Factor or not in the main poll you can take part in the special sub-poll.

[Poll #1312786]

*all polls will be open until the end of the year when official results will be posted.

And remember - send yr list of 10 top tracks to leagueofpop@gmail.com before the end of the year too.

Comments

IA! Quigg-Sothoth!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Call it by its name.

Hallelujah

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I feel I should clarify that my horror at "Hallelujah" isn't based on the fact that it will be a desecration of a beautiful song.

It's that the song itself has become a horrible cliche and lost whatever beauty it might once have possessed, so recording what will surely be an EVEN WORSE version will be adding insult to injury.

Re: Hallelujah

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

yes, this

i'm not really that familar with the song tho (gasp) so perhaps i can consider myself fortunate now

Re: Hallelujah

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I want Alexandra to do a big diva house version of it.

For some reason, even though I've been aware how it's become this huge squatting cliche, I've managed to actually avoid hearing it for years. I still like both the Cohen and Buckley versions (the Wainwright I thought was a disappointment at the time), and would like to hear more "interpretations" of it. (Though not by Eoghan Quigg.)

[koganbot]

I don't know what Diana's claw of doom is, but I voted for it. Is it, like, her voice?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Is is the way her hand creeps balefully around in a claw-like way when she sings, as if controlled by a separate - and surely malign - intelligence. *brrrr*

[22by7.livejournal.com]

but what's wrong with adele's face?

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

nothing! it's fine - most unfair to single her out for this. plus it's better than her voice and songs.

[koganbot]

I unticked The Charts Being Rubbish because I want Scouting For Girls to win.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Also, as an American, most of your No 1 singles this year (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_100_number-one_hits_of_2008_(United_States)) have been pretty good. You should be smug about your charts!

Dilemma

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

I can't in good conscience give Scouting for Girls a tick if I have not also ticked the View. However, I also cannot in good conscience untick Katy Perry or the charts. I'll untick Palin ONLY because she's so unrelated to horrible POP things of the year. In fact, she was an awesome Pop Thing, just a horrible Political Thing.

VIEW vs. SCOUTING FITE.

Re: Dilemma

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

re: Palin, I know right! The only way to even put up with her presence was to conceptualise her as a purely Pop Thing.

Hi-5...

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

...to my fellow Ting Tings tickers. I can't remember when I last hated a band this much, even Katy Perry doesn't annoy me to this level.

I have still not read an adequate defence of them, either.

Re: Hi-5...

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I kinda like a Ting Ting song or two. Can't do it.

Wow.

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

I'd never heard the Bond song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRg1CwAYbfE

Bond b-bond bond bond...

I'm not sure what's worse about the song's first verse: that he emulates Roger Moore only because of the rhyme scheme (if he'd found a rhyme for "Connery" I'd be impressed!) or that the first film he references is THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH. WTF.

Re: Wow.

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Thought of the minute: Is High School Musical indirectly responsible for the possibility of Scouting for Girls escaping any given performance without getting a wedgie?

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

I like the Ting Tings and Katy Perry albums (in that order.) Kid Rock's "All Summer Long" will probably make my top ten singles list of the year. It's great.

Had I made nominations, I probably would have nominated:

-- John Rich’s Republican bootlicking
>
> -- Convoluted critics bending over backwards to blame their
> entirely predictable dislike of Katy Perry on her supposed
> homophobia.
>
> -- The warped idea that anybody should care about a
> Metallica album in 2008
>
> -- The warped idea that anybody should care about a Guns N
> Roses album in 2008
>
> -- Digital promos replacing ones I can hold in my hand.


(That said, neither the Metallica nor Guns N Roses albums are COMPLETELY horrible. In fact, I kind of *wish* they were even worse; they'd be more fun to talk about that way.)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I love digital promos. They have basically saved me from being buried alive by jiffy bags and CDs this year.

Katy Perry has a very strange attitude to/relationship with/obsession with homosexuality, but it's not really offensive, and there are many many more things to dislike her for.

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

Scouting for Girls are an 07 hate really. Shes So Lovely has almost reached Place Your Hands status for me, when even a snippet of it makes me laugh for no reason.

Ting Tings for the victory.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I might switch to MGMT - they're not one of the three worst things on the list, but they are pretty boring, and the barrage of end-of-year lists means they have a sadly prominent place in my brain right now.

[edgeofwhatever.livejournal.com]

How dare anyone nominate High School Musical.

[koganbot]

Oh, I forgot to nominate Geraldine McQueen. Not that the list we've got is inadequate.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

You are CORRECT.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Tough call between Katy Perry and Scouting For Girls: Perry gets it because she is harder to avoid.

Is it too late...

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

...to nominate the Aled Jones / Terry Wogan christmas song? It is worse than everything on this list put together.

[datura800.livejournal.com]

I actually like 6 of the things on that list. Some of it smacks a bit of tokenism.

[pony-meat.livejournal.com]

The Ting Tings are horrible. I have much love for both Katy Perry and HSM.

Clarification

[ijgrieve.livejournal.com]

I nominated "The View's Second Album", not "The View"

Re: Clarification

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Sorry! Someone else nominated The View so I rolled the nominations into one - if you are a disappointed fan of the View's first album then you have my sympathies on more levels than one ;)

request for regional weighting

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

I feel my vote for Glasvegas being the WORST THING IN THE UNIVERSE should carry extra authority since I have to live:

A) in Scotland
B) in close proximity to their wretched wretched album since Catherine likes it.

Voter abandons bullet vote strategy

[koganbot]

I reticked "The Charts Being Rubbish" since it's not likely to overtake Scouting For Girls, or even if it does neither is likely to beat Katy.

[koganbot]

And I just listened to The View's "5Rebbeccas" for AYIPS and to my surprised I liked it! So I've unticked the View, even though I'd nominated them in the first place. They never were as bad as Scouting For Girls anyway.