Winner Stayz On

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Robyn retains her place as the Winner who stays on, beating Beyonce by 5.8 to 5.3 - this is a big slide in votes tho. Her challenger this time is one of the best hip-hop singles of last year, getting a belated UK release on the 23rd January and now starting to get airplay: "Stay Fly" by Three 6 Mafia. "Stay Fly" ended up in about a million end of year singles lists and I'm not quite sure how I missed it, laziness I suppose. The appeal is pretty simple and obvious - that gliding, wasted, "Fly-y-y-y-y-y-y" effect, and the gleaming synth chimes behind the verses that give the track a strange kind of androgyny. Numb, shiny, pop.

(As usual full poptimists members should watch this space for evidence)

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Over to you.

Comments

[juror8.livejournal.com]

I can't help but notice the majority of Robyn downvoters seem to be the elder poptimists = parents just don't understand.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Ahem. Maybe it is just that they have developed higher standards over the years.

Anyway this is easy: black people >>>>> people who take the piss out of black people.

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

Ahem - can I point out that I am very old indeed and have been giving Robyn maximum marks consistently. I love it unreservedly.