A Year In Pop: 5

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

First of two polls today (the second being a January round-up). The more familiar pop names are starting to wake from their start-of-year slumbers, albeit nearly all with later singles from recent albums. Have a sift through this lot!

[Poll #922486]

Comments

[koganbot]

While we're at it, Sadie Ama's "Fallin'," which has stalled up in the 50s, is a wonderful r&b sigh, probably better than "Say It Right," almost up there with the best of Ciara ("Oh" and such).

[koganbot]

Actually, Sadie is something of a JoJo without the high-harmonies.

[koganbot]

But not sure it's better than "Say It Right," actually, now that I listen to "Say It Right" again. But I think I prefer Sadie's singing to Nelly's - Nelly is always one-emotion-at-a-time.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I agree about Sadie Ama (it may yet climb into the top 40, not sure whether it's been properly released) - did you hear any of the grime stuff she did? She and Katy Pearl both had very similar vocal strategies to Ciara, I remember comparing Katy's 'Mr DJ' to 'Oh' at the time (cannot find it in lj archives, it's from 2005 though). 'So Sure' by Kano and Sadie is incredible, if my CDs weren't in boxes spread across two houses I'd dig it up--- HANG ON WE LIVE IN THIS AMAZING AGE OF YOUTUBE, hang on hang on will a 3-yr-old obscure grime single be there, yes it is omg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyJggJd9O4s), wrongly titled and everything! Can't be bothered to trawl through the Pearl Harbour clips to find 'Mr DJ' but here's 'Leave Me Alone' by DaVinche ft Katie and Kano (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4kXK8reg3U) (helpfully she spells her name Katy and Katie and KT at random).

Sadie is the sister of one Shola Ama, who was a young British soul singer who was briefly very big indeed in the late 90s - she got a coke habit though, since recovered (and indeed made a few grime singles, I saw her live in '03 and she was magnificent) but I don't think she's planning any sort of industry comeback.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Yeah, here's (http://poptext.blogspot.com/2005/07/davinche-ft-katie-kano-leave-me-alone.html) what I wrote for Poptext on Kano/Katie.

[koganbot]

Yes, heard "So Sure"; it's on Sadie's MySpace. I like it, but think I prefer "Fallin'," even though the latter is less edgy and underground. "Fallin'" deserves to cross to America. Can't see any reason why it won't, since I wouldn't have known from the sound it was British. But for some reason Brit r&b has had a hard time getting heard here.) I'll listen to "Leave Me Alone" when I return in a couple of hours.