Best Song of 2001: Heat #4

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Missy Elliott gets the highest turnout of the decade so far, with a whopping 49 votes to win heat #3. Daft Punk, S Club 7 and Mary J Blige are safely through, but Alicia and DanBed tie for fifth - see below for the run-off.

Today's poll sees double J-Lo remix action, microgoth, mashups, possible incest and the Jackson Five (sort of). It's heat #4, everybody!

• You get a maximum of TEN TICKS over the three bits of the poll. The top five will go through to the next stage.



• If you want to change your vote (or tick too many by mistake), you can edit your votes by clicking on 'Poll #12345' then 'Fill Out Poll'.



• UK chart placings given in brackets.



• You have until Friday lunchtime to vote.



• Rep for your favourites in the comments! Youtube embeds very welcome.

[Poll #1436184]

Comments

Re: REPPIN' TIME: OSYMYSO

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

a lot of it was definitely more about Do You See/meta jokiness for the sake of pun song titles (i got sick of this and tended to only mix rap/rnb acapellas with dance/electronica...rarely indie/rock because i wasn't interested in and kinda disliked that side of it, tying in with 'making rap appeal to indie kids' argument) altho often this was cut pretty evenly with the tracks actually working well musically - as long as the latter happened the rest was fine. that's drifting into a 'competent mash-ups = remixes' argument tho really (which i'm cool with - the best mash-ups DID sound just like remixes/re-imaginings - and if there was a joke on top of that that's a bonus or at least shouldn't affect the quality).

is also true that rarely would a song be actually improved by doing this, but that wasn't really the point just as many remixes don't improve on original tunes but do provide a complimentary alternative take.