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What is Popjustice’s obsession with Nicole Scherzinger’s ‘Poison’ all about? I don’t get it at all.

Followup thoughts:

1. Good luck to The XX for their second album - the hype cycle’s going to be tough for a band so young.

2. In the Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize, HURTS’ ‘Wonderful Life’ was drawn against ‘Left My Heart in Tokyo’ - rather cruel in my opinion.

'Example' inexplicably wins Popjustice's Twenty Quid Music Prize

Really? Yeah, the shortlist wasn’t great this year (three Mini Viva singles?), but this was like the worst song on there. I don’t understand at all.

The 2010 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize: shortlist revealed

This is a bit depressing really. Certainly not as good or interesting as last year’s.

‘I Won’t Kneel’ is pretty great, however, and I’m still very fond of Hurts and Mini Viva. At least the Hoosiers aren’t there.

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We’re a little confused by the slightly fluffy claim by one blogger that “everything I’ve posted for, let’s say, the past two years, has either been provided by a promotional company, came directly from the record label, or came directly from the artist”. We’ve got a pile of similarly sourced CDs on our desk this morning - that doesn’t really mean that putting them online for downloading by others is the logical next step.
Once again, Popjustice speaks the truth
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…one of this year’s Christmas efforts is an attempt to get Rage Against The Machine’s ‘Killing In The Name’ to Christmas Number One in order to ‘show Simon Cowell a thing or two’ or something.

From what we can gather the point is to divert money away from the ‘machine’ of The X Factor, which propels its own acts (and other Sony artists) into the charts at the end of every year. Which might be slightly more effective if Rage Against The Machine weren’t signed to, er, a Sony label. Still, punk rock, right?

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One artist whose career has quietly spanned the last decade is Annie, and her debut single ‘The Greatest Hit’ celebrates its tenth birthday next year. Now you might be thinking ‘ten years in pop and only two albums? Annie needs to pull her finger out’, and you might in fact argue that, for example, The Beatles basically invented pop, reinvented pop, turned pop on its head, recorded everything they ever recorded then split up within the same sort of time period.
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You may perhaps remember Little Boots for being anointed savior of pop music for 2009 way back in January; what’s questionable is whether you’ll remember anything else she’s done this year. This week, she’s got a single, “Earthquake” (video above), out in the UK. It is selling quite poorly. Bad timing, too, because this week 4music published an interview in which she none-too-gently dismissed the Internet nerds who were once so enthusiastic about her (key quote: “So to all those people who sit on pop forums who don’t know anything about pop campaigns and sit dissecting other people’s pop campaigns, yeah, I think an eight and a half minute edit would be played on radio and it will be a No. 1… You can go and buy a vinyl”).

This is a wonderful opportunity to watch pop fans take to their keyboards to shred to bits that which they once seemingly enjoyed. This “turning on flops” happens quite consistently on the Popjustice forums, and as a result I’ve become quite inured to it, but the vitriol directed at Little Boots seems to be a bit worse than usual thanks to the healthy dose of self-righteousness sprinkled throughout. (If you are in the mood to feel really mean, try a Sugababes thread.)

If you are interested in seeing a bunch of easily angered pop nerds tear one of the Great Hopes of 2009 to shreds, you may do so here and here. I still think “Earthquake” is fab, but I’m not going to deny how entertaining I think this all is.

Another example of the accelerated hype cycle that has infected music blogging. I, too, actually really enjoy Litte Boots’ music.

Popjustice is completely right on this one. Quite a grower.
JLS, on the other hand, are just rubbish.