POLL 08: Most Interesting Pop Thing
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poptimistsThe 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.
[Poll #1314032]
*except I removed noms which were about Poptimists itself, mostly to get it down to 15.
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Date: 2008-12-12 03:48 pm (UTC)Ha ha okay, "On October 3, 2007, Vibe magazine ranked a list of 77 of Lil Wayne's songs from 2007, deciding upon the best song from Lil Wayne on the year" - I happily withdraw my remark!
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Date: 2008-12-12 03:48 pm (UTC)No 1 is UK funky house - I find the twists and turns of UK garage endlessly fascinating (and an endless source of great music), and this is an especially pleasing one, what with the soulful vocals and soca influence and deep grooves and pop choruses. Plus, it's still impossible to predict where the scene will end up - it feels like the future is emerging all around you.
No 2 is the Cassie non-album (which I am currently writing an overdue piece on EEK) - both for what it says about the industry and for her own aesthetic being endlessly unpackable.
No 3 is Katy Perry - like all right-thinking people I dislike her intensely, and I don't really find HER very interesting, but her success and the discourse which has sprung up around her is. Remember when we were all bemoaning the lack of a zeitgeisty 'Umbrella'-esque monster pop dominator? Well...we actually had one! But I can't remember the zeigeisty song of the summer ever being hated as much as 'I Kissed A Girl' was...
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Date: 2008-12-12 04:02 pm (UTC)I ticked funky house - like you say, always interesting to see what that scene will do next. I also ticked autotune and whorepop - both because they're good general stand-ins for stuff that did interest me a lot (largely the same stuff) - the mechanical-human and mechanical-sexual interfaces in pop, which are kind of old stories that seem freshly relevant to a lot of what I listened to this year. I didn't want to tick Kanye because I'm really not interested in HIM as an artist/person especially.
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Date: 2008-12-12 04:09 pm (UTC)Cassie's music would be fascinating even if she'd got to release her album - I could talk about it all day tbh, because it's never very apparent where the source of the power is, or why her songs are as great as they are.
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Date: 2008-12-12 04:39 pm (UTC)Bassline tick vg, something so awesome charting then VANISHING entirely.
Beyonce/Sasha - probably the single artist I have posted on poptimists about most this year!
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Date: 2008-12-12 04:56 pm (UTC)actually, I still don't get who or what this is aimed at
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Date: 2008-12-12 05:22 pm (UTC)(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?)
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