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Apr 07
The 11th Freaky Trigger Pop Music Focus Group: Raw Results
I promised the results would be up on Saturday, and here they are. Detailed scores, instant reviews, correlations and clusters, and implications all to follow.
This is from 39 votes – 32 present at Poptimism yesterday, 7 “postal”. The last of whose votes swapped the top two positions, so it was pretty tight, though it was clear early on that those were the only two tracks in with a chance of winning. A low-scoring Focus Group in general this, but it’s very good to be back: expect us to keep this fast format in the future.
And without further ado – the rankings:
- AVRIL LAVIGNE – “Girlfriend”
- Christina Aguilera – “Candyman”
- Nelly Furtado – “Say It Right”
- MIA – “Bird Flu”
- Gwen Stefani ft Akon – “The Sweet Escape”
- The Gossip – “Standing In The Way Of Control”
- Take That – “Shine”
- Ciara – “Like A Boy”
- The Klaxons – “Golden Skans”
- JoJo – “Too Little Too Late”
- FHM High Street Honeyz – “I Touch Myself”
- Good Charlotte – “Keep Your Hands Off My Girl”
- Kaiser Chiefs – “Ruby”
- Maximo Park – “Our Velocity”
- Alex Gaudino ft Crystal Waters – “Destination Calabria”
- Just Jack – “Starz In Their Eyes”
- Mika – “Grace Kelly”
- Fall Out Boy – “This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race”
- Girls Aloud and Sugababes – “Walk This Way”
- The View – “Same Jeans”
I may well be entirely to blame for the relatively high positioning of the FHM High Street Honeys but who on earth was voting for Gwen?
Fall Out Boy is the 9th best song here!
I was surprised the Gossip didn’t make a stronger showing, and Fall Out Boy didn’t come higher (though I wasn’t expecting it to be in the top half).
first time i’ve heard more than 5 seconds of the gossip track. perhaps i should hear it more ‘closely’ cos i thought it was rub after a good intro, and it suprises me how high it it here.
I think it’s good but not great myself – but it did very well indeed on the weekly LJ polls so I was expecting its form to translate.
hahaha, as per usual my higher votes were for those at the bottom end…
not the greatest set of 20 songs i must say. DO BETTER 2007!!
Even my average was down. One “Triffid Farm” (ahem) was the Pop Tart. One “Marcello Carlin” was the Pop Nun.
That poor girl-faced little boy in The View – he doesn’t deserve to be last!
How did Mystic Meg do?
Be interesting to look at the stats of the voters, what with the top six songs being female fronted acts. I sthere a pop as feminine issue being developed here?
I’m surprised to hear the top two were much clear of #3, which I though was by some distance the best song of the three.
Avril???
So glad I found this blog – you need my votes to get it right :o)
Mika baby Mika!
Hi there Pop Princess! We want pop luv, but you may find Mika luv thin on the ground here. Don’t let that put you off tho.
what i would’ve given them:
‘Girlfriend’ (8)
‘Candyman’ (5)
‘Say It Right’ (5)
‘Bird Flu’ (9)
‘The Sweet Escape’ (7)
‘Standing In The Way Of Control’ (7)
‘Shine’ (9)
‘Like A Boy’ (7)
‘Golden Skans’ (7)
‘Keep Your Hands Off My Girl’ (3)
‘Ruby’ (5)
‘Our Velocity’ (6)
‘Destination Calabria’ (5)
‘Starz In Their Eyez’ (4)
‘Grace Kelly’ (5)
‘This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race’ (8)
‘Walk This Way’ (4)
I gave Fall Out Boy two zeros thanks to a joker. They are false metal.
JoJo was my highest ranked.
I don’t remember much of the voting process (incidentally, DOUBTERS, I not only made it to the house party but indeed stayed up until 2pm the next day) except that there were only six songs which I didn’t give either 0 or 10.
I was going to participate in this but my god, there were some songs I just couldn’t listen to. I felt just like Lex must when he listens to the charts.
The best song won. Nelly should have come second. Take That underrated. Tom, can we have a sad kitten with a caption that says “Poptimists, why do you hate Mark Owen?”.
I’d have given JoJo and Nelly F. 9 each; M.I.A. and Ciara and Good Charlotte and maybe Xtina 8’s. Pretty much everything else clusters between 5 and 7. “Walk This Way” and Same Jeans and maybe Take That (don’t remember how it sounds) would be my only under 5’s. I predict that Poptimist girls like JoJo less than Poptimist boys do but that in larger society this is reversed. High scores for The Gossip are wishful thinking. Not such a bad set of songs, though.
I think you might be right on the Jojo – have no means of proving the reverse hypothesis tho.
More (i.e. some) children/teens needed in the postal votes I think! The youngest individual taking part was the Lex, I think. (unless Cis is younger than Lex)
Actually I think Abby Poptext is younger too, and she was there, and filled in a ballot, but I’m not sure it got to me :(
(Two anonymous ballots were handed in, but I have ruled them out being hers, as neither of them gave a high mark to Avril.)