Coming to a ringtone near you

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I believe this is what the kids call a 'summer smash': Will.i.Am's new effort (embedding disabled for some reason)

And here's Sean Paul and Eve (who is wearing some truly hideous leggings):

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[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Hideous catsuit notwithstanding, the Eve video is terrific! Breezy and light like the song, and she looks good with Sean Paul. Have been increasingly addicted to the song recently - I am SO AMPED for her album now. Surely there will be a 'Give It To You (Part 2)'? Because, like...she sets up this narrative arc really perfectly, the deliriously unexpected loverush in the first verse and a half (but Eve always sounds tough, so the words are even more effective from her), the lovely call-and-response chorus, perfectly in time with each other...then she suddenly undercuts it, pulls the rug from under our feet with the phone call from Tiffany - and then she STOPS! So the listener is basically left hanging! Instead of a resolution (does she bitchslap Sean? does she have a girlfight with Tiffany? does she go and cry somewhere? does she accept it as part of life?) she swings back into light and breezy mode. I mean, I'd still love it if there wasn't a Part 2 though - as a song the tactic works bizarrely well, you find yourself paying lots of attention to the subtleties in her tone and inflection to find a CLUE as to how it will all pan out.

The will.i.am track is fantastic too, I hadn't heard it before and have immediately downloaded it. It had better be massive. When did he become such a good producer, anyway? Because he really is now, he has a really nice signature sound and it's pretty inventive too - loving the bomb explosion beats in the third verse. I am enjoying this as counterpoint to Keri Hilson's 'Hands & Feet' (GOD this needs to be released NOW), which goes "well you got big feet, and you got big hands, so I already know what's up in your pants; where'd you get that from? YO' DADDY! where'd you get that from? YO' DADDY!"

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

On a related note I am really loving the sudden er explosion of r&b girlz shamelessly singing about cock - Xtina does it on 'Candyman' plus of course the chorus of that Nicole Scherzinger single going "something 'bout that cock" really blatantly.