A kung fu fighter in a disco

Call it by its name.

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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.

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koganbot

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

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22by7.livejournal.com

but what's wrong with adele's face?

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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*

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

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yes, this

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

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I can only list what's been nominated!

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jauntyalan.livejournal.com

unfair!

chasing pavements > adele face > adele voice

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koganbot

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

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This doesn't sound horrible at all -- more like "terrible," in all of its many variations.

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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.)

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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.

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I feel like I am somehow involved in unfairly maligning Ms Adele by selecting this poll option, but I merely take the "face" reference to be a mirror to the musical ~~heart of darkness~~ soul. Her actual face, indeed physical appearance, is of little import -- I don't think I can properly recall what she looks like, tbh.

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I assume it's that smug, pinched pout she does all the time rather than her actual potato-like visage, but I agree that her voice and songs are EVEN WORSE.

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

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...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.

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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.

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

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(Then again I like a Katy Perry song or two, too!)

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Yeah obviously much as I dislike Glasvegas they do not have even the slim potential to actually fuck up the planet that Palin still has. But as a "POP" thing I coudn't really vote for her.

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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
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> -- The warped idea that anybody should care about a Guns N
> Roses album in 2008
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> -- 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.)

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no way can 18yr old fat lass ever come off smug really - even if that many industry bigwigs have told her that her voice is incredible. she just looks really miserable and almost embarrassed in many photos.

still surprised at how they repped her so much more over Duffy. i am going to buy Music Week this week and we'll see what irritants they're grooming for Grammy noms next year.

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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!

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