Yet Another Year In Pop: 4

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Slim pickings this week as the chart continues to lose momentum - four non-movers in the top ten (including Lady Gaga at no.1). Let's hope it doesn't actually grind to a complete halt.

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Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I had totally forgotten about Franz Ferdinand's existence. Had not missed them at all tbh. God, this is a piece of shit. Hammy faux-menacing vocals + lairy cock-rock chorus + laboured Ulysses ref (seriously what is it even there for, apart from letting us know that FF have read, or possibly just heard of, Joyce and/or the Iliad - hey, have a cookie, so have I) = DO NOT FUCKING WANT.

Jay Sean - oh look, the British version of Ne-Yo's 'Closer', a year on. I find it very difficult to care about this. There's a Crazy Cousinz remix though, so I might come back and tick, pending whether they provide enough of a groove to counteract Jay Sean's personality void.

Bon Iver - wow this is really awful, a dirge which goes nowhere and does nothing, topped with an insufferable whine of a voice. Like Coldplay but somehow even worse, because you feel that they/he/whatever don't have a 'Clocks' piano riff in them/him/whatever. This is what critics went nuts over last year? Critics' taste sucks.

Hey it's my second DON'T LIKE ANY of the year, and it's still just January! Good going, British public.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

UHHHH why the fuck is everyone ticking Franz Ferdinand? You are all so fucking indie it is unbelievable. What is good about that track?!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i think it's *just about* any good at all (let's say a 5.5 out of ten), certainly wouldn't say i disliked it enough to tick "don't like any" (i am against bon iver and haven't heard the jay sean), but it was a relatively close call.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

5.5/10 does not garner a tick from me! (It's about what I'd give Jay Sean.) I am being STRINGENT with "any good at all" now, after going over last year's ticks and discovering that I had 0 recollection of some of the tracks I ticked. Litmus test = whether I like it enough to acquire an mp3, and then whether I willingly play the thing ever again.