Not eligible for ITA consideration
Or you can just vote in them because there is good music involved. The guidelines:
Eligible for the award will be: (1) performers who are going for a teenpop sound but are on indies or who are strictly MySpace or CDbaby, (2) performers who are somewhat or formerly teenpop but are also going for a somewhat indie sound, whether they're on indies or not, (3) performers who are not necessarily eligible under 1 and 2 but whom we talked about on the teenpop thread for who knows what reason and who aren't obviously too old or too NOT teenpop and who can be rationalized as having indie elements or who just, you know, seem eligible.
Also, they need to be pretty good. You can be teenpop by association. You can be indie by association. I've put qualifying criteria after the performers' name.
Here are the eligible candidates for the award thus far [EDIT: updated with strikethroughs for exclusion and question marks for "current" uncertainty]:
Alexandra Slate (?)
Collette Trudeau
Dahv
Girl Authority
Go Betty Go
Katie Neil
Katy Rose (?)
Kristy Frank
Leslie Carter
Fefe Dobson
Brie Larson
Lillix
Meg & Dia
Marion Raven
Sammy & Sasha
Shut Up Stella
Smoosh
[By my count this leaves 17 potential candidates, still accepting nominations!]
Several of these are still questionable and major objections are quite welcome. Concerns of indieness, teenpopness, or currentness (this is the FIRST ANNUAL awards ceremony, meaning that they need to be roughly current, roughly maybe extending back to 2005).
This might become a Poptimists poll at some point, the target is something like 12-15 nominees I think.
Assorted thoughts on the Indie Teenpop Awards:
1. Vanilla Ninja
Just reviewed (poorly, meaning the write-up is poor, not the song) them on the jukebox and they may be eligible, Estonian teenrock (not by teens but it's still teenrock), very catchy. I don't think this is on an indie, though (nope, Bros --> Sony BMG). I guess I just wanted to mention that they're kinda cool, then.
2. Grak
Championed by Brie Larson. She links to "Seven Nation Army," but there's also "TNT" and "Are You Gonna Be My Girl." According to their web page they also cover MCR, Weezer, Linkin Park, Green Day, Black Sabbath, and Wild Cherry.
3. Slumber Party Girls
Ha, just got this email from Trollz (which has a bizarre interactive universe website with an unexpectedly diverse selection of below-radar major label teenpop in their music section, most technically isn't indie if I remember correctly, haven't been there in months). They've formed the Slumber Party Girls, produced by Ron Fair and out on Geffen. They also host a show called "Secret Slumber Party" on CBS, which kinda sorta gives them a link to the Archies (the cartoon was on CBS). In their interveiws, these girls sound like those deadly serious professionals Kalefa Sanneh's talking about...their minds are already drifting to merchandizing opportunities. (Note: this group is not eligible for the Indie Teenpop Awards.) [EDIT: Also check out "Bubblegum" on the linked page, "boy you're the one/ Got me chokin' on my bubblegum," featuring some wonderfully inept girl-rap, which has been having a renaissance of sorts going into the end of the year! Rest of the song doesn't really live up to the premise.]
4. B*Witched reunion! There's talk of a tour to support their greatest hits album, coming out sometime before next year. Had to include this.
5. Do the Indie Teenpop Awards have a nickname? Like the "Bries" or the "Hanleys"? Or even just a play on words like the Twindies (too twinny) or the Teendies (too dumb)? Or the Lizzies or the Courtneys or the Shirleys (Shirley Manson, an underrated influence of modern indie-ish teenpop, also as in "Shirley there needs to be an Indie Teenpop Award")? Who has done the most for indie teenpop?
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