Poptimists Poll 08 Ketchup*

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The results of the Poll so far:

ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Kanye West - 808s And Heartbreak
Runners Up: Santogold - Santogold; Scooter - Jumping All Over The World

MOST HORRIBLE POP THING: Katy Perry
Runners Up: Scouting For Girls; The charts being rubbish.

MOST INTERESTING POP THING: "Wearing My Rolex"
Runners Up: Katy Perry; Beyonce and Sasha Fierce; Autotune

VIDEO OF THE YEAR: Mariah Carey - "Touch My Body"
Runner Up: Blackout Crew - "Put A Donk On It"

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Madonna
Runners Up: Britney Spears; Morrissey

*sorry Mark!

At lunchtime tomorrow I'll close the leagueofpop@gmail.com inbox to Top 10 Tracks submissions, and then tomorrow evening I'll post the stragglers - those tracks which got more than one vote but didn't make the top 50. The main countdown will run all next 'working' week, and at the weekend the grand list of every single thing submitted will go up. Get your bitching fingers ready!

Comments

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

I actually switched my vote from Kanye to Scooter. It was partly a politics thing and partly a "I really like Scooter after all and damn it this whole album is pretty solid" thing.

I do like the audacity of Kanye's album, and get more of its songs stuck in my head than any of his since "College Dropout," which to be fair is the only Kanye album (aside from this one) that I actually like. It's also somewhat though not totally interesting to me that Kanye is just a complete and total ass on this album, and seems more honestly irredeemable as a personality than he does when he has this veneer of cool on his other stuff. He's a loser, for one thing, but also the kind of unpleasant loser who seems to, of his own doing, have no redeemable qualities whatsoever. Just an awful, spiteful guy. Though he's vying with Ne-Yo for "big jerk [as self-constructed persona] that I still kind of want to like."