Surely there needs to be an Indie Teenpop Award

[koganbot]

Surely there needs to be an Indie Teenpop Award. Eligible for the award will be: (1) performers who are going for a teenpop sound but are on indies or who are strictly MySpace or CDbaby, (2) performers who are somewhat or formerly teenpop but are also going for a somewhat indie sound, whether they're on indies or not, (3) performers who are not

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Re: Lil Chris?

[koganbot]

Well, I find the Lil Chris track irresistable (way more so than Jonas Bros or Busted), but I'll probably declare him ineligible anyway, as I'm eliminating most 2's and 3's (w/exception of Brie, who's a certified commercial flop at this point).

This is sort of where I am at the moment:

Top Candidates???
DaHv
Fefe Dobson
Fan_3
Kristy Frank
Girl Authority
Brie Larson
Meg & Dia
Katie Neil
Marion Raven
Katy Rose
Sammy & Sasha
Alexandra Slate
Shut Up Stella
Smoosh
Colette Trudeau

Probably not good enough (not that I've heard most of these; I'm going by Dave's evaluation)
Leslie Carter
Lil' Josh
Lil' J Xavier
2Krayze
3D
Go Betty Go
Courtney Jaye
Hope 7
Bec Hollcraft

Probably Ineligible
Damone (major label? not teenpop enough?)
Rose Falcon (major label? not teenpop enough?)
Paramore (shemo)
Lucy Woodward (older stuff major label; new stuff not teenpop (and not as good as her old stuff))

Eligibility Contingent Upon Releasing New Material
Hope Partlow

Ineligible (for being too not teenpop or for being too major label) (unless we decide otherwise)
Lily Allen
Flyleaf
Jonas Bros.
Jena Kraus
Marit Larsen
Lillix
Megan McCauley
Skye Sweetnam

(excuse if this turns out to be a duplicate post; lj suddenly is acting like ilX on a poxy fule day)

Re: Lil Chris?

[skyecaptain]

Just posted about this, I should update a bit. I think I excluded Rose Falcon (actually I may have just listed everybody, but I don't think she makes the cut). Of your ineligibles, I would argue for reinstating Lillix. (1) They sound like the Killers now (major label indie) and (2) they've been at least as big a flop as Brie. I reluctantly accept that Skye probably doesn't count in 2006 (she'd be a shoe-in for the 2004 awards, or even 2005 with a year lag, when production could have qualified her despite being distributed on a major). If one-year lag counts, which I think is reasonable on a case by case basis, I would tentatively include Hope Partlow on the Brie Flop Clause, but tough call.

Of the probably not good enoughs, I only really like Go Betty Go. They're on Side One Dummy, same label that put out Gogol Bordello's last record, and their new album comes out tomorrow. But they have a new lead singer now and everything I know by them is older material, 04/05 (might want to check em out here).

Re: Lil Chris?

[skyecaptain]

Er, shoo-in.