Best Song of 2001: Heat #5

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Alicia put up a good fight but eventually the smaller-eyed singer won out - Bedingfield is THRU THIS. Britney, Jay-Z, Blu Cantrell and the White Stripes join him, with Nelly Furtado scraping through in 5th.

What's up next? Missy, Mariah, Martine and Mis-teeq await your ticks in Heat #5...

• 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 Tuesday lunchtime to vote.



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

[Poll #1437699]

Comments

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Presenting, my favourite (and most poptimistic) music video ever:

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

ooh, i'm not sure if i can vote for something, just because of its video (i was wondering why it had been nommed)

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

In fairness, I also think it's a fine little single.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i didn't nominate it because of the video! first time i heard it i was like 'uh, is this foo fighters?'

[ijgrieve.livejournal.com]

How in the hell did this only get 7 ticks?????

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I think we have very different ideas about what "most poptimistic" means.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Yes, this is probably fair to say :) I don't think mine are specifically genre-based - if there is, for example, an rnb video as dedicated to the idea that the right way to enjoy the music is to enjoy it, then I'd certainly go for that.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

No, I know that's what you meant, I just think there's more than one way to express enjoying the music. Pretty much every R&B video with a dance routine or situated in a club, for example, codes heavily as "enjoying the music" to me.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Yeah but those people don't count because they're being paid </indieindieindie> :)

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

I see - 'indie' here means making money off other people working for free? Finally, an 'indie' I can get behind.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Didn't their drummer top himself just after this video was released?

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Yep. I was An Massive Feeder Fan but didn't actually like this one very much.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I like to think that this was one for the non-fans (ie me). I admit this makes little sense.

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Def. nostalgia tick for me this, and tbh I still have a lot of time for all high energy anthemic guitar band stuff.

Video definitely demonstrates the appeal!