Alanis Morisette was a precedent apparently. 3 songs in the 1995 countdown

Scouse be mad :lol:

I grew up listening to the most obscure bands etc, that were apparently on jjj, I never got onto that train for whatever reason, infact my car radio is either on an AM station or IPOD, this year will be the first time of doing something that will include the countdown cause Ive always gone to the victory Australia day game, everyone has been posting their picks on fb, can honestly say I've never heard of any of these musicians. I must be old. I love this taylor swift thing, I fucking hate these hipsters, I don't get it, one of my greatest loves is craft beer and that scene is now being overrun by stupid beards, bad hair cuts and man buns. To me that all seems a bit similar to the punk movement where everyone professes their individuality by dressing the same, listening to the same music and calling anyone out who isn't the same as them!

Quite a few more too over the years apparently.

like that swift song, but I also see the integrity of the count down is important. Her fans voting for her are not going to be listening to JJJ and even on the day wont listen.

Ha ha, Just remembered some 'HIPSTER' (tm) band covered Taylor Swifts shake it off, only 2 weeks ago for like a version.....?!?

Ironically while the thought of Swift infiltrating the Hottest 100 has alarmed many ardent Triple J listeners, Melbourne’s Vance Joy, who won the Hottest 100 with Riptide last year, will open for Swift in concerts across the US, UK and Australia this year.
Swift’s best friend, Lorde, was No. 2 on last year’s Hottest 100 and Milky Chance, who are tipped to poll well with Stolen Dance, covered Shake It Off for Triple J’s Like a Version last week.

Most people who Coin the term 'hipster' are just so far off the beat that it's not even funny.

So much this, it's thrown around way too liberally. I feel like the whole hipster hate movement is just a massive bandwagon/social media fad that few people really understand what a hipster is or why they are supposed to hate them, it's just easy to call something or someone hipster and criticize because everyone else is.

JJJ is really popular these days and I'd wager that the percentage of actual hipster's that make up the audience would not be much at all tbh.

So much this, it's thrown around way too liberally. I feel like the whole hipster hate movement is just a massive bandwagon/social media fad that few people really understand what a hipster is or why they are supposed to hate them, it's just easy to call something or someone hipster and criticize because everyone else is.

JJJ is really popular these days and I'd wager that the percentage of actual hipster's that make up the audience would not be much at all tbh.

Hipsters are just people who get annoyed when things they like become popular. Example being when an indie band cracks the mainstream.

No.... That's just most people who have somewhat adventurous music tastes.

[size=6]Taylor Swift allegedly disqualified from Hottest 100 because of KFC social media post[/size]
20 January 2015

Taylor Swift has apparently been disqualified from Triple J's Hottest 100 because of a social media post made by KFC which used the #Tay4Hottest100 hashtag.

To recap: Last week, Buzzfeed started a grassroots campaign to get Taylor Swift's song 'Shake It Off' to #1 on Triple J's Hottest 100 - the annual countdown of the biggest hipster songs of the past year.

Most people thought the article was cute when they first saw it... but that was before Taylor became the second favourite to win the comp! Read more on that HERE.

Yesterday, however, ex-Triple J presenter Angela Catterns claimed that Tay Tay had already been disqualified from the music poll!

Speaking on a panel for ABC's The Drum, she said 'You probably know that there was a push to get a Taylor Swift song in [the Hottest 100], which has now been disqualified because a fast food chain became involved in the whole process'.

The fast food chain she's talking about is KFC, and the way they got involved was by posting this seemingly innocent and informal competition on Facebook:



The rules of the Hottest 100 state that '[Triple J] reserves the right to remove artists from the list who have benefited from competitions or commercial campaigns that incentivise fans to vote for them.'

The good news: KFC does not explicitly tell people to go and vote for Taylor Swift in the ad, so there is a good chance that Angela jumped the gun in announcing the disqualification.

The bad news, however, is that there is every chance Triple J may choose to disqualify the song because of KFC.

There are a whole number of problems with this, mainly because KFC was not acting as an agent of Taylor herself.

What if KFC decided that tomorrow they were going to run a similar Facebook competition with Peking Duk instead of Taylor Swift? Does that mean that Peking Duk would automatically be disqualified, even though they had no part in the actions of KFC?

Punters aren't able to bet on the Hottest 100 currently, but at last look, Taylor was the second favourite on Sportsbet, and the fifth favourite on Centrebet to take out the Hottest 100 title.

Let's try and get Justin Bieber to #1 :lol:

The whole hottest 100 is a joke now anyway. There use to be a good mix of stuff but it seems very genre biased. The best metal/punk albums of the year can't even get a song on the list while you've got up to 10 songs of the same shit pop group listed. I don't listen to the radio anymore but it seems JJJ went the way of the commercial radio stations there really isn't any difference.

This is why I cannot see the fuss with Taylor Swift? Look at the top 10 from last year. She fits right into this list.

Metal and punk bands still get a shout on the J's. it just depends on how the voting goes. BMTH and Karnivool always get a go when they have stuff out. If you look at the lists over the last few years, it's decently balanced.

This year though, Chet Faker will destroy it and rightly so. His only challenger is Mark Ronson with a very late charge...