Poptimists Tracks Of 08 PART THREE

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Nos. 30-21 of your tracks of the year.

And a special bonus round of applause to two tracks from last year's Top 10 which qualified again this year: Miley Cyrus' "See You Again" would have come between #25 and #26, and M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes" between #24 and #25.

30. ELBOW - "One Day Like This"

This got a grand total of two votes when it came up in the weekly polls. Obviously they both liked it a great deal. Or its Mercury nomination (and omnipresence on sports and TV highlights reels) has swung others behind it!

29. ASHLEE SIMPSON - "Little Miss Obsessive"

No official video of this seems to exist! Here are some pictures of Ashlee.

28. LEONA LEWIS - "Bleeding Love"/"Bleeding Love (Moto Blanco Remix)"

The two mixes got equal votes from you, so I went with the MB one here because it's a bit less familiar.

27. CASSIE - "Thirsty"

Another unreleased R&B gem - big up the Cassie Hype Kru.

26. LIL MAMA - "Shawty Get Loose"

This is the lowest-placed track to be named by four different people! It's also not embeddable, which is a shame as the video is very entertaining.

25. NE-YO - "Miss Independent"

Halfway through! The Prince of Polite outlines what he looks for in a wumman.

24. ASHLEE SIMPSON - "Outta My Head (Ay Ya Ya)"

Second appearance for Ashlee. Audio in this vid might be a bit crummy.

23. THE TING TINGS - "That's Not My Name"

This year's big indie crossover (and divider of poptimist opinion) - don't call them embeddable.

22. H2O ft PLATNUM - "What's It Gonna Be"

Bassline's biggest hit of 2008 gets its reward.

21. KANYE WEST - "Say You Will"

Six-minute cyber-weepie album track storms Poptimist poll shocker! This is not actually a video, obviously.

Tomorrow, things get see-ree-us as we enter the Top 20.

Comments

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

I voted for Kanye because it was the first track on the album and thus the first when I listened to it and went WTF. This impression has not faded, although I also worried about vote-splitting re: Love Lockdown. I also voted for (in this batch) Ne-Yo, What's It Gonna Be, and Miley, so I am obviously some kind of middle-of-the-poptimist-pack marker. I first heard that Miley Cyrus track a few days after Christmas when on holiday last year - it came on my ipod on shuffle while I was going back from the sun lounger to my room to get something and I thought WOW - and it is very much an 08 track so YAH BOO SUCKS to the chart eligibility criteria. It's a FIX.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Grumpy update: I hate the idea of Elbow so much I don't think I have consciously heard a note by them.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

it is your punishment for even considering the ting tings ughhh

@r$e more like!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

you will have heard plenty without knowing it though, assuming you has watched any tv with incidental music in the last year or so...

...i'm actually coming round to the idea of them these days... not enough to actually buy any or anything you understand.

[koganbot]

Well, I think some of his chart eligibility criteria for this year was based on his no longer having last year's spreadsheet. But I still think he needs to combine votes for tracks that do well across a year's boundary, so that tracks aren't punished for coming out in Nov.-Dec. or for coming out in one year in the USA and another in Britain. That said, "See You Again" still wouldn't have qualified, since its total this year didn't equal half of what it got last year.