POPTIMISTS TRACKS OF 2009: Nos 18-13

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Taking us to tomorrow's finale.

18. YEAH YEAH YEAHS - "Heads Will Roll" (55 points)

Dance till you're dead!

17. RICHGIRL - "He Ain't With Me Now (Tho)" (58 points)

Play the strings, Rich.

16. KELLY CLARKSON - "My Life Would Suck Without You" (59 points)

I'm nothing without you.

15. SHYSTIE - "Nu Style" (67 points)

Join my army, man.

14. RIHANNA - "Russian Roulette" (73 points)

Just pull the trigger.

13. BLACK EYED PEAS - "I Gotta Feeling" (75 points)

Mazel tov!

Comments

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Hurrah for Richgirl! This topped my end of year wot I've never actually written.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yeah I was very pleased to see Richgirl get in too.

Surprise here IMO is the Peas - I didn't think many people liked it, I thought those that DID like it were sick of it, I thought more people would go for "Boom Boom Pow", but no, here it is, and it was top 10 for most of the process.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Hurrah for I gotta Feeling. I may have been trolling slightly by giving it my top rating. I am very *nearly* sick of it, but surprised by how well it holds up. I didn't get the Boom Boom Pow thing at all.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I like them both, I just expected ubiquity to have scuppered this one's chances a little!

[koganbot]

Here's my favorite fan vid for "I Gotta Feeling," is what really got me to understand its good-humored appeal. Feels more like a fuck-around-in-the-day song than a night-party song, anyway. (Not that I voted for it.)

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

I found the standard video v.v.likable - it totally converted me to the song! What I liked was the massive honesty about whom the target market for the song actually was - obviously it ended up expanding beyond them but it was great to see it being upfront about being a song for that kind of girl!

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Meet Me Halfway > Boom Boom Pow > I Gotta Feeling

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

Seconded - this was high on my list.