A Year In Pop: 40

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

A more manageable eight new entries this week, including Aly and AJ's UK chart debut and the seventieth single off the Mika record.

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Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Phonics - steering clear of this one.

Elvis - whatevs

Manics - sounds like Design For Life (i can has arpeggio). Not exactly gripping stuff but they've done far worse. Not good enough for a tick.

Gnash - This is REALLY FRUSTRATING as she has rollerskating robots in the video and, like Foundations, the song is quite pleasant. BUT HER VOICE! SHUT UP SHUT UP! Can we get someone in to overdub her please? And change the enunciation? No tick until this happens.

Mika - better than the Big Girls song. Nowhere near as good as Grace Kelly. No tick.

A&A - YAAAAAY awesome awesome. Tick tick and thrice tick.

Lethal (http://youtube.com/watch?v=kpIFKKa1u-U) - hahahahah this is hilarious! "Chasing me somewhere random in Chingford, back then I was a little Linford". I like the stupid nameless indie in the background who are being drowned out by the proper meaty beats AND THEN GET BEATEN UP beat-en do you see. TICK!

Kanye (http://youtube.com/watch?v=fmX9ci9Fczw) - late-90s-retro hiphop with a clever video to distract from how dull the song is. Botherd.

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

Kate Nash's voice is ghastly on Mouthwash, I liked it on 'Foundations' by contrast. All the trying to be girlish, it's actually painful to listen to (and not because of EMOTIONS)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The opening lyrics on Mouthwash make me want to break things. I! Have! Freckles! And! Spots! Oh! Noes! SHUT UP SHUT UP. Or at least say something interesting eg 'my freckles are awesome and I draw patterns in crayon linking them up'.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Luckily then the lyrics get much more insightful oh wait