The 2009 Twee.net poll results have been published. Everything looks fine till you see the numbers for the Best Record Label of the year. Over the years, no label has had more votes than the 31 votes Matinée struck in 2002, the first year the “best label” category appeared on the poll. There has never been such a difference between first and second as in the 2008 poll, where, with 74 votes, Series Two won the category. Here are the numbers:
BEST RECORD LABELS:
1. Series Two Records 74
2. Slumberland Records 12
3. Matinee Recordings 10
4. Cloudberry Records 8
5. Shelflife Records 4
Wee POP! Records 4
6. Labrador Records 3
Monkeymind Records 2
Magic Marker Records 2
Siesta Records 2
YAY! Records 2
So, do we believe this? NO WAY JOSE. For me, Series Two doesn’t have any credibility. It’s impossible to believe this was a fair first place. Luckily there’s a break down of the individual votes (thanks Peter!). Let’s see how many people just voted ONLY for the best label category and for Series Two. As you know, in the Twee.net poll you can choose which categories to vote for. You can always leave blank any category as well. I don’t believe any popkid would vote in the poll for only a favourite label. Perhaps I could believe them only voting for their favourite band or their favourite song of the year. But for a label? For god’s sake. Do you think people are too stupid to be tricked this way? And come on, for the people familiar with the poll, it’s always the same people voting, the indiepop scene is not HUGE, there are always familiar names. It’s terribly funny to see all these votes coming from names I’ve never seen ever before. It’s just like spam. Among these robots we have:
+ no name given
+ Andrew Palmer of The Mother Z’s (band)
+ Danny
+ kristo
+ Mataharibisu
+ OG
+ Paul Johnstone
+ renou
+ ria silva
+ Ryohei
+ star dellera
11 people! Almost what Slumberland scored. Alright, but what about the people who voted for Series Two and some other categories? Oh! those are many more and it seems they didn’t know this poll was an INDIEPOP poll. I guess Chris B.’s instructions missed this little detail. What has happened is that there is a fair amount of votes to Radiohead this year. UNBELIEVABLE! And what about the user Jeanne Betak? His best albums are worth checking out! At least for a good laugh.
I’ve seen Viagra spam on the poplist. But this spaming is even more amazing, it’s farfetched. On top of that, there’s no single Series Two release listed on Twee.net. I expected other labels to win. Labels that had a better year like Slumberland or Shelflife, or labels that ask their bands to “show some love” on the polls, as I wrote on a previous post. But, honestly, I never expected that something like this was going to happen. I guess there are no ethics whatsoever for the godsend Chris B. Criminally cheating like this, it doesn’t matter anymore if these robots care about indiepop or not. It’s about winning. FUCK the scene.
Thanks Chris B. for showing us again what you are capable of. I hope it won’t be too long when people start noticing at last the terrible damage you are causing to our little scene. Next year aim to win the Pitchfork best of list. We don’t want you around. Please.
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