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

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Open to a lot of new ones, since the ones I know already I don't feel very passionately about. Leslie Carter's is teenpop fun on an archeology of the recent past tip, but I wouldn't make huge claims for its actual greatness (Though for half-mumbled choruses well-enunciated in a pop song, "Ooh, hey, what, it's like wow" is up there with "uh huh...OK...whazzup...SHUT UP").



What got me into this song is the semi-tragic story behind Leslie's career (Carter sister, filmed having many a bipolar breakdown on oddly disturbing reality show House of Carters) as told by Metal Mike (http://www.villagevoice.com/2002-11-19/music/tween-pop-suppressed/) in the Voice.

Otherwise I've been convinced on Manu Chao (wow) and Mos Def. J-Lo really should make it through this one, though I'm not going to rep particularly hard for it.