Another Year In Pop: 19

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Madge is still at the top, and Coldplay get into the top 10 despite giving their single away for free! Some people have no sense when it comes to economics, do they?

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Hitz from Finland vol. 10

[credoimprobus]

An anecdote sort of apropos the impending Eurovision: Beats and Styles (who were mentioned in passing in vol. 8b) participated in last year's Finnish preselection with these two songs:

( 2 x youtube embeds )

For some utterly inexplicable reason, the former track beat out the latter for the spot in the final; I'd not watched that particular heat live, and so only heard the latter track after the fact. My first reaction -- after "wait, HOW did this one not go through over the other??", obv -- was "wow, this could make a MASSIVE summer jam. They should totally release it as a single in time for the summer!"

Apparently, I have powers of psychic influence (either that or just good music biz sense, haha), because they did!

And it was (a hit*). Powers of psychic influence FTW!

*) well, 'hit' as in the non-charting type, but it didn't lack for airplay, anyrate!

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In the name of a good segue I also give you their latest single; it's nice but nothing special, and while the video is kinda cool it's only kinda cool:

The point of posting it, see, being the Featuring ie mr. Elastinen (who should really stick to rapping in Finnish, ahahaha). The gentleman in question is a veteran of classic rap group Fintelligens, and a couple of years ago he had this hit off his second solo record:

(Or as I immediately dubbed it, Finnish Rap Discovers Maximalism Two Years After the Rest of the World's Gotten Over It. Quite smashing a specimen of hip hop maximalism, though!)