Now that the British music establishment has declared its favorite home-grown albums of the year with the Mercury Prize nominations, the cheeky British pop site Popjustice has seen fit to announce its shortlist for The Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize, which honors the best British single of the year. The artist behind the winning song gets twenty pounds, and the voting is decided by you! (And me, and anyone else.) So all you commenters who want to avenge Lily Allen’s being left off the Mercury Prize list can. Other nominees include the Pet Shop Boys’ “Love Etc” and Saint Etienne’s “Method Of Modern Love”; I’m probably going to throw my weight behind Girls Aloud’s “The Promise,” what with it being completely overplayed (yet not played enough) by my assortment of digital-music players in recent months. All the nominees, after the jump!
‘Beat Again’ by JLS
‘Better Off As Two’ by Frankmusik
‘I’m Not Alone’ by Calvin Harris
‘In For The Kill’ by La Roux
‘Love Etc’ by Pet Shop Boys
‘Method Of Modern Love’ by Saint Etienne
‘New In Town’ by Little Boots
‘Take Me Back’ by Tinchy Stryder
‘The Promise’ by Girls Aloud
‘Up’ by The Saturdays
‘The Boy Does Nothing’ by Alesha Dixon
‘The Fear’ by Lily Allen
And here is what all their covers look like:
Pretty! Look for any and all of these songs to be name-dropped by Perez soon.
The Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize [Popjustice]
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As much as I want to back GA, Lily and LaRoux, really it’s all about Alesha Dixon. That song is so the jam and yet such a throwaway. It’s going to be the answer for plenty of music trivia questions in 10 yrs. Perfect UK pop.
Hmmm… If it were Untouchable I’d be voting for Girls Aloud. And if it were Bulletproof I’d be voting for La Roux. But I’ll have to decide between the Pet Shop Boys and Saint Etienne, I guess.
Ok, this more like it! I’m always happier with the 20 Quid prix noms than the stupid old Mercury Prize nods.
(And, I’ll take this moment to mention that I really like the new St. Etienne. Gobs.)
The Promise is AWFUL. The other two singles from Out of Ideas are a lot better.
The Saint Etienne track is the best of the bunch, better than In for the Kill or (ugh) Tinchy Stryder and Frankmusik, but I want Lily Allen to win because she was the most unfairly snubbed wrt the Mercury Prize.
The omissions: Bextor/Freemasons, VV Brown, La Roux’s “Bulletproof”, Noisettes- are more telling than what did make it onto the list, if you ask me.
Oh, and JLS should lose if only for their shit dance routine.
Wow, those covers … I thought the 80s revival was dead.
I’d throw votes behind Frankmusik and Calvin Harris. Both jams.
That Calvin Harris track is the best vocal trance song I’ve heard this year.
@brownie: Haven’t listened to trance in years, but checked that track out. Reminded me quite a bit of the old Art of Trance track “Madagascar.”