Real Love

A short simple entry today.

The Triple J Hottest 100 voting opened recently and after reading a shitty little article in mX about the current betting on which song would win, I realised something had to be done.

You see, Silverchair - Straight Lines is the current favourite to win, and let's face it, it's going to take a lot of effort to knock that song off the top, despite the fact that it sucks. Silverchair has really fallen from their previous awesomeness with songs like Ana's Song, Anthem for the Year 2000 and of course, Freak, quite simply their new stuff is terrible, almost like an entirely new band.

Powderfinger will no doubt be successful this year as well, despite their latest album sucking.

I could go into detail about how since Daniel Johns no longer lines in a world of pain (dude has as pretty messy medical history) and Bernard Fanning is no longer a heroin addict, but that's I'm not an American politician, I won't make my candidate look good by slandering the others, especially seeing as they made their best material when they were at their lowest as human beings.

No, instead I wish to draw everyone's attention to Regina Spektor's magnificent cover of Real Love, which she has performed at numerous concerts and live on the "Like A Version" segment of Robbie Buck's program on Triple J.

It is by far the best song I've heard in recent memory, Real Love just grabs my attention and holds it, you believe the vulnerability, the fragility, the haunting emotion that Regina projects so perfectly . Quite simply, it's beautiful and no other song eligible for entry in the Hottest 100 comes close to it in terms of pure brilliance.

Now, far be it from me to infringe on your freedom to think for yourself, but Real Love is an outsider to do well in the Hottest 100 right now, you see the general formula for success is that it is highly played/requested on Triple J (which is is) and also receives equal amount of support on commercial radio. That's why Silverchair is the favourite, because they've pretty much saturated all radio stations with their latest album, and it's also why Powderfinger normally dominates, because it's basically unAustralian to dislike them. Regina Spektor, despite her ridiculous talent does not get any commercial radio play that I know of and from what I can tell is virtually unknown to the greater majority of Australians, to their obvious loss.

So back to not infringing on your freedom of thought.

Go to the Hottest 100 page, click on "Vote Now" and then create a shortlist of songs (it's all listed on the site in enough detail to sort it out). Make sure that Regina Spektor - Real Love is on your shortlist.

Select up to 10 songs from that shortlist, make sure Real Love is one of those songs and vote for them.

The rest of the process is pretty simple.