A Year In Pop: 47

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Well, that was easy - only four new entries, unless I've read the BBC charts wrong. I'm also guessing that this might be the last week in which our overall winners might be troubled, but let's see.

[Poll #1095062]

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I don't think there are many other ingredients other than the chorus and the beat! And there don't need to be. It's a music hall song basically, the most English GA have ever been - it's seaside postcard naughtiness, not wackiness, which I know you can't stand either :)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Well they've always had a Carry On element to their music but usually there's something else there to counterbalance it! (ie to take the focus away because, yes, seaside postcard naughtiness is a terrible aesthetic, if I want to hear pop stars being rude we have Kim and Trina actually BEING rude)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I like hearing it unleashed sometimes - the second track, can't remember the title, is a bit like that too: the imaginary theme from the Brit comedy film about "Girls Aloud".

I haven't really got my head round the record after "Fling", cos I just dumped all the tracks on shuffle and half of them never seem to come up: the only real clunker for me is "Can't Speak French".

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I like the second one - until the fifth track I thought it was going to be a really interesting record in that it seemed to be more dance than ever, not in the scattershot melting pot way but in the way everything was streamlined and focused. Is 'Can't Speak French' the fifth one? It's kind of symptomatic because it's the sort of awkward clunky song they normally manage to pull off somehow (like 'Real Life'), whether through lyrics or performance or whatever, but 'Can't Speak French' is just graceless. And then it gets worse! I was really thankful for 'Crocodile Tears' at the end.