Pop-Eye 18/2/01

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In this week's we discuss the rarefied and elitist likes of Atomic Kitten, Jakarta and Dido. And, of course, bloody Toploader.

― Tom, Wednesday, 21 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thoughts:

Apparently Atomic Kitten sold more this week than in either of the last two weeks?

"EI" not as good as "Country Grammar"? Listen again, Baran.

In a reverse-Blondie fashion, Angelic is not a band.

Mad respect to Pete for spelling "shoo-in" correctly. It doesn't involve shoes.

I thought I was clever for thinking up that Jakarta joke. Obviously I'd just heard it somewhere else.

Heard today: what's yellow and dangerous? A maggot with a bad attitude. Yeah!

― Greg, Wednesday, 21 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Let's give Dido the credit she deserves. "Thank You" is a dang fine song. I love the way it starts out in a minor key and ends in a major key. Hmm, that doesn't read to impressively, but it sounds great.

― Jack Redelfs, Thursday, 22 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No credit. Shite song.

― Phil Paterson, Thursday, 22 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well I personally think "Thank You" is mawkish coffee-table drivel and it infuriates me that most of the people who buy Dido probably think she is somehow different to the Atomic Kitten track, BUT the point is that for whatever deranged reason* the record co. didn't put "Thank You" out as a single, they put "Here With Me" out instead. I still maintain Pete that "Thank You" would have hit #1 easy.

*oh yes, sorry, she's a serious artist is why.

― Tom, Thursday, 22 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Presumably the lass in the Wheatus tune has tickets for Iron Maiden *now*, ie with Bruce Dickinson back in the band. Unless it's some crazy ironic social history commentary on how society suffered during the period when the bloke from Wolfsbane was out front. Naturally I prefer the first two albums, before Bruce Dickinson even joined the band. ;-)

― alex thomson, Thursday, 22 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm glad that Pete bothered to put in an at least half-hearted defence of Jakarta's "American Dream". It's brilliant! Dismiss it as being mercenary if you want to, but were *you* clever enough to realise that spooky woodchime-like music in American Beauty would sound fantastic with a house beat underneath? No! So shut up.

― Tim, Thursday, 22 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Serious Artist? Fuck off.

― Phil Paterson, Thursday, 22 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dido does strike me as rather bland. She can sing a bit and has a few pleasent ditties. The Atomic Kitten single is still number one due to that 'awful' spoken word bit, a classic bit of song writing. I'm finding Usher really boring at the moment. Starsailor - the future of British music? Please God no!!!

― jel, Thursday, 22 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's becoming obvious to me that I need glasses, because the word I initially read was most certainly NOT "ditties".

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 22 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

....kitties? Surely, that makes no sense.

― Ally, Thursday, 22 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

As far as I know, Dido has no ditties at all. As I said - I have always had a soft spot for tunes with soundtrack samples in them, and I think the faceless dance music bashing has got a bit staid in Pop- Eye. Jakarta might be using someone elses face, but its a good face (something John Woo failed to grasp when making Face/Off).

― Pete, Thursday, 22 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

sorry, but changing key into the relative major/minor is a fairly simple musical device. Do you think people are now simply buying Atomic Kitten to keep Wheatus off number one?

― Nick Greenfield, Thursday, 22 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

nick: god i hope so.

― jess owens, Thursday, 22 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Popbitch has it (SHUDDER) that "Whole Again" will make it *four* weeks and keep Outkast's "Ms. Jackson" off number one on Sunday. Any insiders' knowledge out there?

I can't remember ever being so tribalistic - not even when I was the kind of pop kid who takes side instinctively - that one particular record makes number one in place of another. If Outkast *don't* get number one, I'll be sitting here crying, slowly.

― The Collective Freemasons of Fotheringhay, Friday, 23 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's a bit unfortunate I suppose that as the Pop-Eye contributor who likes "Ms.Jackson" least I get the week it comes out.

The real injustice isn't that AK will beat Outkast (and Popbitch were wrong about AK the first week, too) but that Ms Jackson is going to go top 3 and "BOB" stalled at No.45 or wherever. (Not to mention the VV poll thing).

― Tom, Friday, 23 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

True, but "BOB" was never going to get my '96-timewarped Oasist cousin singing along, as "Ms Jackson" has. Sad, but that's the way things turn out in life.

― Robin Carmody, Friday, 23 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Clarification: Popbitch don't "have" anything except a copy of the mid-week charts, available to anyone. Don't credit them with predicting these thing.

― Greg, Tuesday, 27 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ah, I see. No secrets there, then.

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 27 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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