I've gotta say, I'm a Triple J listener myself (except for when they try to talk and be funny) and I think this hijacking is the best thing that could happen, given the previous misgivings about the station's editorial cliquism I posted in a previous thread, the current regime at the J's have two options: remove Swift from the poll and lose all #legitimacy as "the world's biggest music democracy" or let her win and lose all #legitimacy as hipsters who only profess the same six songs a month that those in the studio and their industry buddies want to play. Hopefully the result is a more open Triple J, accountable to it's stakeholders.
The Age wrote:[size=6]Taylor Swift shakes up Triple J's Hottest 100 poll[/size]
January 18, 2015 - 12:15AM
Australian of the Year … Taylor Swift? Not quite, but the online brawl over a campaign to have Swift's smash Shake It Off included in Triple J's Hottest 100 poll has taken a new turn, with favourites for the gong, Canberra duo Peking Duk, posting a video on Saturday admitting they're closet Taylor fans. Reuben Styles and Adam Hyde speak of watching the ebb and flow of the voting as it was hijacked via a campaign to have Swift's hit included in the polling. "Taylor Swift's gonna win … and if she does good on her. I kinda hope she does." That said, Hyde does lament the distortion in the voting. "There's trolls who are voting because it's funny and that's the bit where it gets a bit, 'Oh come on'." The duo say they will spend Australia Day having a barbie, sinking beers and listening to the countdown. "We'll wait for Taylor Swift to take out top spot. I've got love for T. Swift." But can she do it? Latest check of the odds has Swift third favourite, behind Peking Duk and Chet Faker.
Well played by the Peking Duk lads, good sports.