Dizzee Rascal - one of my singles of the year, I am like Tourette's with it at the moment, I keep shouting out lines from it. "BLUD! Don't make me get old skool!" "Why you running with that bredda, you don't need him! He's a pussyole, he's a chief, leave him!" "PUSSYOLE!" Really really terrific - I have taken to playing it back-to-back with Ciara's 'Make It Last Forever' which has the same Rob Base sample, it makes for an awesome just-leaving-house, quick-dance-round-room double whammy. Second only to 'Umbrella' in terms of stuff which has charted. Why is it not No 1 or similar?
Kleerup/Robyn - OK I may hate Robyn but I can't deny this song's power - for once she doesn't sound pleased with herself, she sounds astonishingly like Kate Bush. I love the way the 4/4 kick amps up the emotion, I love the way it feels like scenery rushing past on a train, I love the propulsion, and the lyrics are gorgeous. I was talking with another journalist last night about its success - we think that the internet hype machine DOES work, but with a massive time delay; so I'm attributing Robyn's success to both the delay in getting her stuff out, AND to the Annie effect, which would have softened radio programmers up to the idea of an Annie, but not in time for Annie herself
Amy - yeah this is OK, doesn't have the impact of her previous three singles though
The rest - EVZZZZZ.
Depressing news in the lower echelons of the chart - I see that the new Lumidee single has limped in at No 74, and I think that's with a physical release :( Five years ago that would've been a shoo-in for the top 10 :(
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Date: 2007-08-06 01:13 pm (UTC)Dizzee Rascal - one of my singles of the year, I am like Tourette's with it at the moment, I keep shouting out lines from it. "BLUD! Don't make me get old skool!" "Why you running with that bredda, you don't need him! He's a pussyole, he's a chief, leave him!" "PUSSYOLE!" Really really terrific - I have taken to playing it back-to-back with Ciara's 'Make It Last Forever' which has the same Rob Base sample, it makes for an awesome just-leaving-house, quick-dance-round-room double whammy. Second only to 'Umbrella' in terms of stuff which has charted. Why is it not No 1 or similar?
Kleerup/Robyn - OK I may hate Robyn but I can't deny this song's power - for once she doesn't sound pleased with herself, she sounds astonishingly like Kate Bush. I love the way the 4/4 kick amps up the emotion, I love the way it feels like scenery rushing past on a train, I love the propulsion, and the lyrics are gorgeous. I was talking with another journalist last night about its success - we think that the internet hype machine DOES work, but with a massive time delay; so I'm attributing Robyn's success to both the delay in getting her stuff out, AND to the Annie effect, which would have softened radio programmers up to the idea of an Annie, but not in time for Annie herself
Beyoncé - in the bottom half of B'Day but still very tickworthy. Why do we get this and America gets 'Get Em Bodied'? NO FAIR. We never got 'Upgrade U' either :(
Amy - yeah this is OK, doesn't have the impact of her previous three singles though
The rest - EVZZZZZ.
Depressing news in the lower echelons of the chart - I see that the new Lumidee single has limped in at No 74, and I think that's with a physical release :( Five years ago that would've been a shoo-in for the top 10 :(