So who’s your favourite pop star?

Now there’s a shiny new Lemmy group up and running at @popheads (Mastodon users: follow it if you want more discussion of pop music in your Mastodon feed), it’s time to ask who’s your favourite pop star? Do you have a favourite song or album?

My current faves are:

Alessia Cara: Perhaps the most talented and certainly the most underrated of the current crop of pop stars. She’s fallen out of the limelight the past couple of years, which is a pity, because there’s some excellent songs on her recent albums:

https://youtu.be/2ORj3T5sz-0

https://youtu.be/QJWR9T7ihns

https://youtu.be/9tKQgesCcTc

https://youtu.be/E40dAGljh4Y

https://youtu.be/rcDsSkQ59-E

Willow Smith: Done some really great songs recently:

https://youtu.be/hvrx8SX3jqQ

And some all-time favourites:

Prince

https://youtu.be/CkrT9u7ms1c

John Farnham (but only his Whispering Jack/Age of Reason/Chain Reaction '80s to early '90s run)

https://youtu.be/xWGXmWB4tKQ

https://youtu.be/VD5Vt6zx_to

https://youtu.be/EBo1cMumwBM

Janet Jackson, and most of the broader Jackson family. (Jermaine, Rebbie, and TJ in particular have some hidden gems in their discography.)

https://youtu.be/XKTBP-w9q_k

https://youtu.be/65eEHAMZMSo

#music #popmusic

  • pootriarch@poptalk.scrubbles.techM
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    kylie. when the trap door opened dropping me into the shiny world of pop music, kylie was pulling the lever. to this day i call my preferred artists ‘showgirls’. they have been, historically: kylie, girls aloud and/or chezza, katy, britney. crj and selena gomez are semi-permanent showgirls-in-waiting. i’ve seen every one of them live, kylie six times, crj three.

    i just saw a concert by the belgian singer angèle, who abruptly and unexpectedly became an instant showgirl. somewhere out there carly rae is pouting, sorry.

    https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=Y1sWOW23md0