POLL 08: Most Interesting Pop Thing

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The poll for most interesting Pop Thing - as with the other polls we're doing this CANON STYLE i.e. you pick your three most interesting pop things from this list of all* the stuff that was nominated.

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*except I removed noms which were about Poptimists itself, mostly to get it down to 15.

Comments

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

I stuck on harmonies, which feels like a koganbot nom, because I thought about them this year in a more conscious way than I usually do -- and I think that the pretty much across-the-board vocal manipulation that's probably peaked in the Autotune nomination is partly responsible. But even outside of obvious production tricks, I think that, e.g., Fleet Foxes mostly get by on harmonies (or at least harmony-laden prettiness) in the same way that Danity Kane does. And the neo-soul fallout, which is WAY more consistently good than most of the Winehouse previous wave, does neat stuff with harmony. The Pipettes could only imagine.

(Anyway, most interesting thing isn't the same as most original, is it? Because even though some of these were more ubiquitous last year or in previous years, they might be more interesting this year. Like hoarpop's decreasing ability to shock despite or because of its desperate lengths to do so, maybe?)

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

"I stuck on" = "I'm stuck on"

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Maybe matching music trends to the New Depression is ahead of its time in 2008...

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Wait a minute, surely "Taylor Swift's dresses" is the koganbot nom!

[koganbot]

(I had three noms: Taylor dresses, harmonies, and Autotune.)