A Year In Pop: 39

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Sweet Christmas it's THIRTEEN new entries, almost a third of the WHOLE CHART. Surely ONE of them must be good!!

[Poll #1064074]

October round-up and Pop Open results to follow - what a day of orgafun content!

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Shayne - I really like the silly voices on ITOWY, much better than Akon's Lonely. Good codding from Shayne. NUHU is soulless and uninteresting. ITOWY gets the tick as I would very much like to hear it again.

Ida vs Fedde - Good ingredients but somewhere in the baking process it's all gone a bit tricky. There's no structure! Electro like this really needs a coherent build-up & pay-off OR a proper pop song discreet verse-chorus thing. Borderline tick as it's a reasonable effort.

Mark & Amy - no improvement on the original. No tick.

Elvis - botherd

Jack Penate - not sure what he's trying to achieve here but whatever it is, it isn't tick-worthy.

Enrique - AWESOME and do you know what, it sounds even better in Spanish! Vampires and werewolves and brilliance. I'm going to write a thing about the album so won't go into too much detail here but TICK TICK TICK.

Katie - The song's a bit too sickly but she does have the sweet voice to pull it off. The video reminds me of this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6sE1L2laCc) way too much.

HSM2 - not as good as What Time Is It. Botherd, rly.

JT&W - dear god this has got into the charts? I saw this as an interweb meme some weeks ago. POOR SHOW ALL ROUND.

30TM - RUBBISH epic emo. Must do better!

J-Lo - This is a great bit of pop, video to match. Also it samples 'KEEP ON TRUCKING'. Tick!

Will I Am - Hurrah this is grebt for all the reasons everyone else has said. Tickety-tick.

G+T - Awww I thought this was going to be a Fleetwood Mac adaptation :( It's alright I guess. OOOOOH actually when Troy finally shows up his bits work well with G's. Borderline tick.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

The J-Lo video is insane, it's kind of like 'Dirrty' except with J-Lo being REALLY VIOLENT instead of sexxxy, and then...rescuing a small child at the end wtf!