Sunday, February 22, 2004
Four What It's Worth
This evening Channel 4 will be showing The Ultimate Pop Star, a countdown of the 50 best pop stars... ever! We don't have high hopes for this programme - it's hosted by Smashie and Nicey, which doesn't bode hugely well, and they're basing their list on sales. Just because someone's sold a lot of records doesn't necessarily imply they're a great pop star; look at Dido, she's sold more records than we've had hot dinners (3 by the way, we never got the hang of using an oven) but even her biggest fan would be hard pushed to describe her as a pop star, but then, Dido's biggest fan would be hard pushed to string a sentence together. Equally, not selling many records doesn't make you a rubbish pop star, just an unsuccessful one. Look at Pete Burns of Dead or Alive fame for proof of that.
Anyway, despite the expected rubbishness of the show, we'll still be watching it. Over the next few days not only will we giving our views on their top 50, but we'll also be providing our own list of the top ten pop stars... ever! Ignoring sales, this will partly be based on important factors such as glitteryness, aceness of songs, general "Fuck me!" factor, and, on a similar note, how attractive we find them. Mainly though, our list will be based around the first ten names that come into our head when we sit down to write it, which means it'll probably be slightly more meaningful than the real one.
Anyway, despite the expected rubbishness of the show, we'll still be watching it. Over the next few days not only will we giving our views on their top 50, but we'll also be providing our own list of the top ten pop stars... ever! Ignoring sales, this will partly be based on important factors such as glitteryness, aceness of songs, general "Fuck me!" factor, and, on a similar note, how attractive we find them. Mainly though, our list will be based around the first ten names that come into our head when we sit down to write it, which means it'll probably be slightly more meaningful than the real one.
