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 :(
(I always hear it as...kind of related to 'chafe'? As in, 'one who chafes', an annoyance. It works better w/ expletives, eg "fuckin chief").
Yes it is Nash's success which makes me mildly hopeful for MIA this time around (though it's weird how some people totally flop! Róisín's single did nothing, neither did 'Boyz', and O MY POOR LUMIDEE)
I gave a grudging tick to 'Pussyole' because I'd probably dance to it but I am not at all impressed with the use of the Lyn Collins break 20 years on from it's original overload. Do not need to hear that break on any new tracks OK?!
as a lundum child 'chief' meant 'one who steals' (do you see how we did that); it's weird to me that that usage doesn't seem to be favoured by the urbandictionary kids, esp as i still enjoy saying for instance 'man is a dirty chief'.
Get Me Bodied would have been a great choice for a single! It's somehow grown-up and serious and sounds big and nasty (so far as B can do 'serious') whereas Green Light is just thin and jittery.
And it has the amazing seven-minute extended version complete w/ dance moves. "Do the Naomi Campbell walk! Naomi Campbell walk!"
As you say 'Freakum Dress' would have been even better - the chorus has this immense spiralling gravitational pull to it. And 'Suga Mama' too - when she gets buckwild at the end ("Take my CREDIT CARDS! Sit on my LAP NOW!" it is awe-inspiring.
Robyn's definitely going to be in my top 10 of the year which is GOOD as it gives FIVE MONTHS to try and sum up how awesome it is. Words are currently failing me. You're bang on about Kate Bush tho, I never twigged that before!
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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 :(
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Date: 2007-08-06 01:16 pm (UTC)In a world where Kate Nash spends 5 weeks in the Top 5 there is nobody who cannot be a pop star - long live the interwebs (I think).
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Date: 2007-08-06 01:21 pm (UTC)(I always hear it as...kind of related to 'chafe'? As in, 'one who chafes', an annoyance. It works better w/ expletives, eg "fuckin chief").
Yes it is Nash's success which makes me mildly hopeful for MIA this time around (though it's weird how some people totally flop! Róisín's single did nothing, neither did 'Boyz', and O MY POOR LUMIDEE)
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Date: 2007-08-06 01:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-06 01:55 pm (UTC)DUTTY LICKLE TEEF
Date: 2007-08-06 01:59 pm (UTC)Re: DUTTY LICKLE TEEF
Date: 2007-08-06 02:13 pm (UTC)you could use as a verb for stealin', and it to mean 'borrow' as well, all 'can I chief that ball off you?'.
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Date: 2007-08-06 03:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-06 01:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-06 01:33 pm (UTC)As you say 'Freakum Dress' would have been even better - the chorus has this immense spiralling gravitational pull to it. And 'Suga Mama' too - when she gets buckwild at the end ("Take my CREDIT CARDS! Sit on my LAP NOW!" it is awe-inspiring.
'Green Light' is OK but not much more.
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Date: 2007-08-06 01:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-06 03:02 pm (UTC)(Disclaimer, may be selective memory in the extreme)
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Date: 2007-08-06 03:15 pm (UTC)