Best Song of 2001: Heat #7

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

So close! But Wyclef beat Andrew WK by one vote (not mine!). However even if pop-metal is not represented in the finals it is clearly made an impact on all your hearts etc.

Back to the heats now, and this penultimate bunch of 2001 features up-and-coming young guns Janet Jackson, Snoop Dogg and the Manic Street Preachers. It's heat #7!

• 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 #1448661]


Cheeky edit: this is probably a good juncture to point out that it is POPTIMISM on Friday! Details here.

Comments

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

I appreciate Tom's observation that "Stroke of Genie-us" prefigures post-Avril (and at least, more directly, post-Clarkson) teenpop, but other than that the mash-up really leaves me cold...they didn't figure out what to do with the chorus! The guitar chords don't match "there's a price to pay"/"I can make your wish come true" and overall it's one of the less elegant mash-ups that I've heard that's fairly popular. But the idea itself only seems interesting in hindsight anyway, and I'm guessing the connection is more of a coincidence than anything else.