The likes of Lorde, The Preatures, Karnivool, Birds of Tokyo, and Thelma Plum already showed the public how they’ll be voting in the Triple J Hottest 100.
Now those artists, along with a cast of nearly 40 local and international bands are fighting for your vote in the radio station’s annual music poll – in the goofiest way possible.
To celebrate voting for the latest instalment of the Triple J Hottest 100 opening today, the youth broadcaster’s laconic Lunch show host Lewis McKirdy has gathered a collection of Aussie artists and international stars for a music celeb-savvy video.
Opening with New Zealand sensation Lorde plugging her globe-dominating ‘Royals’ (voted as the #1 international single of the year according to you readers), the clip features a ream of cringeworthy puns from a host of recognisable acts, including Franz Ferdinand, Kings Of Leon, Empire Of The Sun, and City & Colour.
Also doing their best am-dram for the camera is The Preatures, Elizabeth Rose, Birds Of Tokyo, Karnivool, Architecture In Helsinki, REMi, John Butler, San Cisco (palling it up with Nile Rodgers) and plenty more. Though many of the musicians that gave Triple J their list of Top 10 songs of 2013 have missed out (or perhaps wisely declined) to appear in the video, including Pond, Tame Impala, Cloud Control, Vance Joy, and Jagwar Ma.
Along with the behind-the-scenes video, Triple J are once again offering voters in “the world’s largest music democracy” the chance to win the coveted ‘Golden Ticket’, a double pass to every festival and gig in the next 12 months presented by the radio station – including Laneway, Groovin’ The Moo, Splendour In The Grass, Falls, and tours from Arctic Monkeys, The National, and Phoenix.
The Hottest 100 polls close on 20th January ahead of the results being unveiled in the traditional broadcast on Australia Day (that’s 26th January 2014 for you non-patriots).
Those looking for hot tips as to who might make the station’s annual poll (or wanting to ignore that the #1 slot is likely going to ‘Royals’, ‘Get Lucky’ or ‘Riptide’) would do well to take a look at the results of Triple J’s recent readers poll of The Best Albums of 2013.
Judging by those results – which featured Boy & Bear’s Harlequin Dream as the sole Aussie entry in the Top 10 – expect strong, multiple appearances from songs by Arctic Monkeys, Daft Punk, Arcade Fire, Vampire Weekend, Ham, Foals, The National, Kanye West, and – of course – Lorde.
The Kiwi singer-songwriter was also named by voters as the ‘Hero of the Year‘ (and Kanye ‘Wanker of the Year’) in the results of our own annual readers poll, while ‘Royals’ was named international single of the year, trailed by the likes of Daft Punk’s ‘Get Lucky’, Arctic Monkeys’ ‘Do I Wanna Know?’, Arcade Fire’s ‘Reflektor’, James Blake’s ‘Retrograde’, Queens of the Stone Age, and more (view the Top 15 list here).
Meanwhile, Tone Deaf readers voted Vance Joy’s ‘Riptide’ as the #1 Aussie song of 2013, followed by Courtney Barnett’s ‘Avant Gardener’, Leaks’ ‘Often It’s You’, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s ‘Head On/Pill’, The Preatures’ ‘Is This How You Feel?’, and more (view the Top 15 Aussie list here).
Interestingly, the lack of females in the results of the 20th Anniversary Hottest 100 mid-year countdown from earlier this year was voted as the Biggest ‘Oops’ moment of the year. Oasis came out on top of the poll of the best songs of the last two decades, where a record-breaking 940,000 votes were cast across 20 days for the ‘Hottest 20’, crowning 1997 as the best year in music.
Its seems that public scrutiny and the Hottest 100 go hand in hand, with last year’s winners, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and their ubiquitous thrift-hop hit, ruffling more than a few feathers. And then there was the Warmest 100 leak, a list of scarily accurate predictions put together by a pair of Brisbane IT experts who managed to crack a traceable code of votes submitted through social media.
