[MrGaryy]

Originally Posted by Shaun

I'm saying that, whilst there is no "critic" that everyone will universally agree with, critical opinion and personal opinion shouldn't be mutually exclusive. Otherwise people are ultimately going "right well this band won the Mercury Prize, have 3 albums on Q's top 100 of the decade and won 5 Brit Awards, but I don't really care because Tik Tok has a killer a chorus!!"

I'm sorry but that is just a ridiculous logic. Why should one vote for a band simple because they've received more critical acclaim than an artist that they personally prefer. defeats the entire point of the game surely.

wow.

Yes? Are songwriting and the ability to play instruments not counted as talents now?

When I was writing the shortlist of artists to be included, I said [probably OP] that to qualify the artists had to have their first release after 31 December 1999 (and before 31 December 2009). Therefore, god knows why I included her with only one song. Had I known TiBB's pop messes would crawl out and vote in their droves for her to win, I know sure as Hell I wouldn't have.

Exactly, they're first release had to be after that date to QUALIFY. Says nothing about their unreleased material not being eligible to be taken into consideration when voting.