Best Song of 2001: Heat #6 Run-off

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The universe manages not to end thanks to Vitalic progressing through - he's joined by Nelly, Basement Jaxx, Sugababes and... oh lord, it's a three-way tie. J-Lo, Wyclef and Andrew WK must fight it out in the run-off below (last minute vote change from the Lex discounted because I'd already typed out the poll and can't be arsed changing it).

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Which is all the poll action you're getting from me today, I'm afraid - I'm off my jolly hols for a couple of weeks so it wouldn't really be fair to give the next heat an extended ticking run. I'm sure you'll all cope.

In the meantime I can point you at meserach's 2001 Spotify playlist, and the nominations box for the Lex 20p Indie Prize are still open.

Comments

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Phoned up my mama, said 'I'm in love with the stripper yo'.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I love 'Play' a lot more than 'Perfect Gentleman' but will tick whatever gets the appalling Andrew WK out.

stevem78 what was with your last-minute vote switch! I thought you wanted the horrific WK out too.

Maxine Put Yr Red Shoes ON

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

Thankfully I thought again about giving a vote to Andrew WK, so I can now happily vote through the song that is closest to my heart.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

two weeks? but isn't there only one 2001 heat left? nooooooo etc.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

I like Andrew WK and may yet be convinced to switch back, but for now I've voted for Wyclef, which is a song I have more experience with personally and very much enjoy.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

(BTW the winner will be announced when the next heat is posted up as usual, but I'll give a reminder about this poll before then).

[spazhammer.livejournal.com]

as much as i love "perfect gentleman", its gotta be AWK. of the two songs, AWK always gets a dancefloor going nuts. wyclef only does it 50% of the time...

[petronia.livejournal.com]

"Play" doesn't hold up as well as I thought it would on re-listen, but it mattered a lot more to me at the time than "Perfect Gentleman".

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

possibly the worst defenders, too: always fawning over him and literally comparing him to Jesus and so on; going on about the ideology being so POSITIVE and so on, as if “doing what you love” or “becoming more than yourself through partying” is a concept unique to him, hasn’t been done a million times before and a million times better, doesn’t apply to half my record collection already.

I agree with this, by the way. And do think the schtick he stole and codified from Twisted Sister or whoever is really overrated -- wrote some recent comments on Jukebox to that effect. But I voted for his song anyway; when I went back and listened to them, I was surprised to be reminded how engaging the WK track was, and how run-of-the-mill the J-Lo one was. I apologize to anybody offended.