POPTIMISTS POLL 08: Video Of The Year

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

As with the album, most horrible and most interesting thing, you get THREE votes across all categories.

To make it easier for you, here's a PLAYLIST of all 17 of the videos:

http://uk.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=79D7B51DD842D711

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Remember also that the TRACKS OF THE YEAR POLL is open until the end of the year. Send a list your 10 favourite tracks, in order, to leagueofpop@gmail.com - it's the work of a moment!

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

It really has been a great year for videos. I think Kanye and Erykah are shoe-ins for me, just for using the format so well, but I have to decide between Bouncy and Lil' Mama ('Shawty Get Loose') for the last tick - both have super-fun choreography, Lil' Mama wins on imagery (even though it's basically a Michael & Janet tribute) but the Bouncy video made the song significantly better for me, which I think might be the deciding factor.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

oh HANG ON I forgot just how excellent that Ashanti video is. Bah.

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the original video that inspired the choreography (in large parts the moves are exactly the same) in the bouncy video:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kRm4evmgz4I&feature=related

Doesn't make Bouncy's any less good (it was my original nomination) but interesting to see anyway

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Haha what, Bouncy is such a little tief! Shameless. (Doesn't make her any less good though, no.)

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

Oh, she's been quite open about it too

[koganbot]

Over Thanksgiving my mom and I watched Sweet Charity and The Pajama Game, both choreographed by Bob Fosse. Despite the sentimentality of the plots, there's something really hard, almost angry, about the dancing. Which make the movements appropriate for Beyoncé, a woman both sentimental and stressed.

[koganbot]

(Or so she portrays herself.)