A Year In Pop: 6

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

In the new ever-changing world of the charts, a new entry at #2 is apparently quite exciting, even (or especially?) if it's perennial pop controversialists the Kaiser Chiefs.

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Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Oh OK - I liked the first minute or two of it actually, kind of Postcard-y (more accurate than my Too Pure comparison), but it just went on and on. Do they have 'good lyrics'?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

They definitely have "good lyrics" (with big words, too) and are keen for the listener to note this. The first thing I heard by them - which was a lot more FF than this - was called 'Appropriation (By Any Other Name)' which says it all.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Yes, in so far as Pulp had. And as miss AMP said somewhere (her site's still blocked at work), there's going to be some interesting layers to the phrase 'female Jarvis' even if that's all she is.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Well, Pulp had lyrics which got my attention from the off, which clearly this lot don't - all I can remember is the chorus line, "She won't take you to giddy stratosphers", which seems clunky and forced, though its hook was pretty good.