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

[koganbot]

Do you have any idea what the combined total for "Paper Planes" and "See You Again" would be (combining this year and last as Pazz & Jop does it so such songs are not punished for crossing the boundary between years)? Or did that info get lost along with last year's spreadsheet? ("What's It Gonna Be" would also pick up a few points that way.)

(For those of you who missed the convo about this a few days ago, Pazz & Jop will add together totals from more than one year if the votes from the second year are at least half of what a track or album got the previous year, except if someone votes the song for both years his second year's points don't get counted.)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

For MIA I think the votes aren't quite half. I don't have the exact totals but I think if I did this the songs would be 4 and 5 this year.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Actually NEITHER of them got half the points from the previous year!

[koganbot]

Then they don't suffer. But "What's It Gonna Be" would have ranked a bit higher (since in counting early votes you don't have to reach half of the next year's tally).

Xhuxk thinks that "Paper Planes" could win Pazz & Jop this year, but I don't think this year's votes are going to reach half of last year's.