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

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

WTF it's terrible, it actually makes me feel nauseous, it's thoroughly despicable. What on earth is affecting about it? His smug face bobbing around in the video is so punchable.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Never seen the video! I just hear it as being quite sincere - the way he switches the "sometimes your words just hypnotize me" thing from backing vox to lead turns it into a kind of tribute and the effortful non-flow on the verses acknowledges how hard it is to do while slowing things down to let Biggie's lyrical dexterity shine.

OR of course it's just awful novelty shite. But I'm really torn - there's SOMETHING to it I respond to.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Hang on you like it because it's sheer crapness acknowledges the talent of the original artist?!

I have little doubt that Mr Black would claim it to be a sincere tribute but I don't believe him for a second - 1) I am sure that 99% of his fans will just take this as pt943229 of "aren't black men funny", 2) if he really loved the original he would leave it the fuck alone.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yes it dramatises the contradictions of being a white hipster who likes commercial hip-hop!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

There aren't any contradictions! White hipsters should get over themselves.