Only Girl In The POLL: Female singers of the 21st century (so far)

f*ck the hate and ban me if you wish, i'm voting for ke$ha ..

i think the double set that we got in the uk (animal and cannibal) was great fun ..

I think Ke$ha has proven herself with time. "Blah Blah Blah" was a bad single choice after "Tik Tok", but I think most people came round with "Your Love Is My Drug" or "We R Who We R".

heh "Blah Blah Blah" was the only one i remotely enjoyed

Lol ok. I thought it was pushing her trashy persona too far and the music was kind of generic.

i like trashy.

Well bros, since no one has stepped up yet for Katy Perry, and since Norah Jones (despite selling 36 million records worldwide) is off the list...

oh, and i guess i like generic.

I like Ke$ha better than f@%&*n Katy Perry.

seriously, are there people who don't ?

Well bros, since no one has stepped up yet for Katy Perry, and since Norah Jones (despite selling 36 million records worldwide) is off the list...

― canonical casual cordouroy (Eazy), Thursday, September 27, 2012 5:08 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this ain't a Would Smash thread

i'd go beyonce-missy-ciara-rihanna-madonna-alicia-britney-gwen-nicki-kelly-nelly-fergie-p!nk-taylor-xina-katy-mariah-avril-ke$ha-ashanti-j.lo on basis of their hits, put britney and maybe gwen (can't remember where 'cool' peaked or if her moby and eve cameos were this century for that matter) ahead of alicia and move madonna just ahead of missy (total fanboy, no shame) on basis of total work or whatever this century. also, not sure if this has been covered, but is adele not up there by mistake or at this moment stuck at four top ten hits? i'd put her right behind alicia maybe.

Katy perry, with Kesha second. Gaga a distant third. I never thought born this way was all that great. The rest are pure vomit.

i have finished my empirical study of my own taste and determined that indeed fergie will be my vote. lady gaga and *gasp* katy perry would have been next in line

i have major respect for someone who puts out just one solo album that has a pretty great run of singles

yeah, and the gulf of quality between Fergie solo singles and BEP singles really speaks well of her, i kind of feel like it's a shame she hasn't done another record

Katy perry, with Kesha second. Gaga a distant third. I never thought born this way was all that great. The rest are pure vomit.

― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, September 27, 2012 6:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Katy perry sucks "arse", mate.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

good piece: http://www.billboard.com/column/chartbeat/analysis-how-lady-gaga-katy-perry-and-rihanna-1007965412.story?utm_source=most_recent#/column/chartbeat/analysis-how-lady-gaga-katy-perry-and-rihanna-1007965412.story?utm_source=most_recent

this poll is dumb so I voted for ke$ha

What's behind the pure pop boom? It's no coincidence that 2008 marked the arrival of two of the format's reigning stars: Perry and Gaga. Rihanna, meanwhile, continued to solidify her star status as an almost constant chart staple, adding touches of R&B and reggae to her overall pop focus.

is the person who wrote this completely unfamiliar with Rihanna's initial top 10 singles

i think they phrased that poorly and didn't mean that she was 'adding' that stuff to her sound for the first time post-"Umbrella"

good piece: http://www.billboard.com/column/chartbeat/analysis-how-lady-gaga-katy-perry-and-rihanna-1007965412.story?utm_source=most_recent#/column/chartbeat/analysis-how-lady-gaga-katy-perry-and-rihanna-1007965412.story?utm_source=most_recent

― jaz a make wardance (some dude), Tuesday, October 2, 2012 1:20 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

was hoping this would clarify why people listen to katy perry

i only listen to her on Boobs By Katy Perry breast-shaped headphones

nice.

Missy > Pink > Beyonce > Kelly Clarkson > Gaga > Alicia Keys > Rihanna > Aguilera > Avril > Fergie > Mariah > Ciara > Katy Perry > Britney > Nelly Furtado > Nicki Minaj > Madonna > Jennifer Lopez > Gwen Stefani > Ashanti > Taylor Swift > Ke$ha

want to see lex's rankings

This morning was the first time I'd knowingly heard a Katy Perry song. I actually couldn't believe someone with a voice like that would be allowed near a microphone.

― You killed my accountant... now YOU must be my accountant (dog latin), Friday, March 25, 2011 1:09 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

believing it is easier once you've seen her boobage

― sarahel, Friday, March 25, 2011 1:11 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

if someone had managed to just paint their penis like a microphone to fool her they would've saved us all a lot of trouble

I voted for Avril. Just, you know, before anyone asks who the hell did that. I like the songs she sings on best, I guess. (shrugs)

I take issue with the use of the term "pure pop" in that article.

Like what the hell is "mainstream top 40 radio is playing more pure pop than ever before" even supposed to mean - all the pop music that came before wasn't pure enough? Can pop music only approach purity if it has a four-on-the-floor beat and an anthemic chorus?

it has something to do with "pure shores" and "beautiful stranger" IIRC

But yeah, I've always struggled with "pure pop" as a useful term within pop music - if it's reigning on the pop charts then can't we safely conclude it has a high percentage of popness to it? I get it more when it's in some other genre and you're making a point that, unexpectedly, it operates according to the currently operant (or, I guess, historically dominant) modes of pop? e.g. if a backpacker rapper made a song that seems to 'feel' and work by devices shared by "Penny Lane," "Kokomo" and "Hot N Cold," then maybe it's not totally stupid to say their approach, under its genre/stylistic surface is "pure pop" but the whole thing just seems like a pointless endeavor and not really descriptive of anything other than what the commenter/reader has in their own head of what "pure pop" sounds like. Because clearly there's a lot of ground in between those three songs I just listed.

Beyonce
Ciara
Missy
Gaga
Madonna

I love The Evolution as album even more than 4.

but Beyonce as singles artist is clearly at the peak of her powers, "Run the World" aside.

wow, actually reading that article it is even stupider than I thought:

"While pure pop has comprised more than 60% of all Pop Songs top 10s each year since 2008, the sound encompassed just 41% in 1993, when R&B from the likes of Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson and TLC infused format playlists. "

R&B is pure pop!

guys it really isn't complicated

they're just distinguishing pop-as-genre artists (Gaga, Katy, Kelly, Pink) from top 10 acts who might be primarily identified as R&B or rock or country or hip-hop

i mean the article is about the Pop Songs chart, they're talking about popular artists who aren't also successful on, say, the R&B chart like Beyonce, Mariah, etc.

"the likes of"

we all remember how Pink's career started, right

showing her vagina to some guy, right?

her first album's singles were all more successful on Pop Songs than Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, aesthetics notwithstanding (xpost)

Gaga, Katy, and Kelly have all had #1 singles on the club/dance charts. Pure pop = disco-pop?

Madonna has had a bazillion club/dance #1s, that chart's makeup is more artists considered 'pop' than any particular strain of dance music

More clubs mostly play top 40 (or dance remixes of top 40) than you'd think.

yeah unless someone actually wants to make the argument that there's anywhere near the crossover between the r&b and pop chart as there was eight to ten years ago then anyone agog at this is showing a bizarre unfamiliarity w/ the concepts of 'radio', 'charts', 'billboard', 'r&b', and 'pop'.

sorry I'm not going to buy into this "pure pop" thing

ok joe morgan

who's joe morgan

unskewed billboard charts show jazmine sullivan has actually had several top ten pop hits, not peaked at #31 on hot 100.