A Year In Pop: 25

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

JAYSIS WHAT A SHOWER.

I refer of course to the rain that is delaying the homecomings of our merry Glastonburger revellers, not to the twelve new pop acts for your consideration this week.

[Poll #1009604]

(If you want to vote in the Pop Open, by the way, you've got about 15 minutes.)

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

He kind of fills a Lemar type role, which is surprising to me b/c surely one Lemar is more than enough.

Did you ever hear 'Bubblin' Tom?

[koganbot]

Am listening to "Bubblin'" now, and you are right, it is excellent, a really sweet BSB/*NSync knockoff, the basic pretty pretty pretty sweetboy voices with the subterranean push of r&b. This is what the current crop of Disney boys (Corbin Bleu, B5) wishes they sounded like. Fly By II is a good track but doesn't showcase the sweet voices nearly as well as "Bubblin'."

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

I always preferred Blue's "Too Close" to Next's.

Frank, if you haven't heard it (And you SHOULD have, as it was on my '05 singles list), listen to "No Worries" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87pJF1VLfXc). ignore the video, he thinks he's Seal or something and just go aaaaah, that's nice. He really can't hit the low notes, mind you, but it doesn't matter.

[koganbot]

Very nice track, though I'd attribute a lot of its beauty to the woman sampled (?) in the background.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I can imagine liking it if it was by Gabrielle or Mutya or someone with a bit of warmth to their voice, but even then in an unenthusiastic 6/10 way, and when Webbe does it...he really is a black hole of charisma. Am with Frank, the sample is the best thing about it.