Yet Another Year In Pop: 22

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Dizzee holds off the BEPs for another week; some random bosh from Agnes sneaks in behind them at 3 whilst an ancient Veronicas song finally charts in the UK.

[Poll #1409112]

Final reminder to get your nominations in for the best song of 2000 (please nominate there and not on this post, otherwise I might miss it) - you've got until 8pm BST tonight but I'll post up a list of the noms so far at some point this afternoon.

Comments

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

'Random' is the word. Totally baffled why Agnes got as high as #3. Hurrah for The Veronicas going top 10 though.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Isn't that Veronicas song like a year old now?

'New In Town' is a really good song but Little Boots is such a blah performer...similar to the Keri Hilson situation, it sounds like the kind of demo a talented songwriter would hawk to record companies for OTHER ARTISTS to do. The Goldielocks and Drop The Lime remixes are also much better.

That Agnes song is RUBBISH, what is it and why is it so high?

There are only nine songs in the entire top 40 that I even vaguely like, and I can't remember how two of those actually go - think this is the worst hit-rate since I began following the charts when I was like 10. Blah blah blah pop sucks so much right now and people have rubbish taste blah blah.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Agnes- meh it is not exactly 'since you're gone' is it?

Veronicas- Mind-bendingly amazing, shame about the creepy twincest vibe the band continue to ply.

Little Boots- RUBBISH. Actual rubbish. I cannot believe people like this.

You Me At Six- Tolerably naive; they were quite good when they did the singles reviews for Rock Sound so they can have a tick.

Escala- Wot. I am all for violings and it's nice that Harry From McFly's girlfriend's band is sort of doing well but why on EARTH would you release classical singles? Even in the download age and with pretty young ladies fronting said classical music it just seems so POINTLESS.

[nunya-b.livejournal.com]

new in town is horrendous. but the less-than-wonderful chart placing is pleasing; it's nice to see that hype can only do so much when the song is as banal and stupid as it is (and comes packaged with an amusingly offensive video).

i'm sad they're redoing the whole little boots campaign to try to upsell her into being a Big Pop Star; she is a good popstar, i think. unfortunately, there's no way to convince people of that when you release your weakest recording to date as your debut single.

[koganbot]

My half-full cup is brimming over.

Agnes "Release Me": Standard girl bosh w/ a Celine-style belter in the role of the full-busted figurehead. TICK.

Veronicas "Untouched": "Random" is the word for "Untouched" too, since the V-twins have had almost a score of tracks as good as this one without previously breaking through. That said, the orchestral stabs set up the overdramatic singing excellently. TICK.

Little Boots "New In Town": Sliced instrumental romanticism at the start, young woman mumbles coyly, in rhythm, then sounds like Chrissy Hynde in search of her cow. Surprisingly playful. TICK.

You Me At Six "Finders Keepers": Pop emo by numbers; competent harmonies not nearly enough to compensate for affected vocals. NO TICK.

eScala "Palladia": Variety shows Talent shows do the darndest things, don't they? Worth a tick, but needed drums, and a choir in deep background, to make its sonic impact. TICK.

[poptasticuk.livejournal.com]

Agnes? Random bosh? She is neither random nor bosh! I just don't understand other people's opinions sometimes...