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poptimistsI know it's not even Christmas yet, but I'm too excited to wait for my favourite time of year, when we get to predict who will be big in 2008! So I'd like to know who you're all expecting, with your plentiful pop knowledge, to be 'taking the charts (or just our hearts) by storm' in the new year. I'll introduce some of my suggestions
Adele
So, let's start with an obvious one, because I have a strong feeling that Adele will be topping many prediction lists in January, since her last single, Hometown Glory, won great praise and the new one, Chasing Pavements, was already getting played in Sweden when I left, which leads me to believe it must be pretty big in the UK too. She's also an easy choice, what with female British soloists being big news in 2007, and she'll get support as a role model for young girls since she's certainly not a size 0. I've been following her career since about April as she is a friend of a friend of mine, but I don't think I'll be namedropping since I've never met her or even seen her live. She seems like a talented girl with some nice songs but it's nothing special to my ears. Neither love nor hate is the reaction from me.
Lykke Li
We've been waiting so long for a new album from Robyn, and I fear it'll still be a while yet, since she hasn't even put out Be Mine yet in the UK (she will in a few weeks), so here is Lykke Li with some ace new Swedish urban-indie-electro-pop to keep us going. Like Adele she has been getting a lot of buzz recently, both in Sweden and outside, and it seems like she will soon breakthrough worldwide (even in just an indie way rather than getting no.1 hits quite yet) even though she hasn't even released her first album in Sweden yet. I'm not sure when that will be as I don't think it's quite ready yet but I'm very excited for hearing it. This is her first hit, Little Bit, but I also thorougly recommended her gorgeous love song Tonight.
The Ting Tings
Some of you might remember a band called Dear Eskiimo, who were around 2 or 3 years ago, made some great, unusual pop songs but never got any further than an appearance on MTV's Brand Spanking New live show. They disbanded, and the cute and charismatic singer Katie and the drummer Jules created a new group called The Ting Tings, which is really hard to type without writing Thing. They're similar to Dear Eskiimo but so far I'm not as impressed with the music, although NME has had the opposite reaction and put That's Not My Name quite high up in their chart of 2007. Personally I prefer Fruit Machine. Ka-ching ka-ching!
Santogold
A recent discovery for me, but an interesting one - reminds me of M.I.A, Nelly Furtado and Laleh (a Swedish singer), especially at her poppiest, on LES Artistes. I think she will go down well with a lot of Poptimists actually. She's from New York and had some recognition from Rolling Stone, but I doubt she'll become a huge star over there or over here, just 'critically acclaimed' like MIA. I like the refrain in Shove It: "We think you're a joke, shove your hope where it don't shut!"
Colbie Caillat
Not particularly a recommendation here as I think Colbie's album will be more suitable for your mum's birthday gift than your own, but her single Bubbly is one you'll find either cute or terribly annoying. I do always laugh at the phrase "bubbly face" - spotty teenage boys will rejoice! You'd better get used to it anyway as I'm pretty sure we're going to hear a lot of it in the next few months, at least if the radio stations of America and the rest of Europe are anything to go by. UK commercial radio and Radio 2 will love it, and I can even see Radio 1 getting on board if they're not feeling too superior when they pick their next playlist. If someone can tell me how to pronounce her surname I'd be rather grateful...
Hmm, feisty females seem to be the order of the day. No problem for me!
So, let me hear your suggestions and what you think of mine...
P.S. Merry (almost) Christmas!
So, let's start with an obvious one, because I have a strong feeling that Adele will be topping many prediction lists in January, since her last single, Hometown Glory, won great praise and the new one, Chasing Pavements, was already getting played in Sweden when I left, which leads me to believe it must be pretty big in the UK too. She's also an easy choice, what with female British soloists being big news in 2007, and she'll get support as a role model for young girls since she's certainly not a size 0. I've been following her career since about April as she is a friend of a friend of mine, but I don't think I'll be namedropping since I've never met her or even seen her live. She seems like a talented girl with some nice songs but it's nothing special to my ears. Neither love nor hate is the reaction from me.
Lykke Li
We've been waiting so long for a new album from Robyn, and I fear it'll still be a while yet, since she hasn't even put out Be Mine yet in the UK (she will in a few weeks), so here is Lykke Li with some ace new Swedish urban-indie-electro-pop to keep us going. Like Adele she has been getting a lot of buzz recently, both in Sweden and outside, and it seems like she will soon breakthrough worldwide (even in just an indie way rather than getting no.1 hits quite yet) even though she hasn't even released her first album in Sweden yet. I'm not sure when that will be as I don't think it's quite ready yet but I'm very excited for hearing it. This is her first hit, Little Bit, but I also thorougly recommended her gorgeous love song Tonight.
The Ting Tings
Some of you might remember a band called Dear Eskiimo, who were around 2 or 3 years ago, made some great, unusual pop songs but never got any further than an appearance on MTV's Brand Spanking New live show. They disbanded, and the cute and charismatic singer Katie and the drummer Jules created a new group called The Ting Tings, which is really hard to type without writing Thing. They're similar to Dear Eskiimo but so far I'm not as impressed with the music, although NME has had the opposite reaction and put That's Not My Name quite high up in their chart of 2007. Personally I prefer Fruit Machine. Ka-ching ka-ching!
Santogold
A recent discovery for me, but an interesting one - reminds me of M.I.A, Nelly Furtado and Laleh (a Swedish singer), especially at her poppiest, on LES Artistes. I think she will go down well with a lot of Poptimists actually. She's from New York and had some recognition from Rolling Stone, but I doubt she'll become a huge star over there or over here, just 'critically acclaimed' like MIA. I like the refrain in Shove It: "We think you're a joke, shove your hope where it don't shut!"
Colbie Caillat
Not particularly a recommendation here as I think Colbie's album will be more suitable for your mum's birthday gift than your own, but her single Bubbly is one you'll find either cute or terribly annoying. I do always laugh at the phrase "bubbly face" - spotty teenage boys will rejoice! You'd better get used to it anyway as I'm pretty sure we're going to hear a lot of it in the next few months, at least if the radio stations of America and the rest of Europe are anything to go by. UK commercial radio and Radio 2 will love it, and I can even see Radio 1 getting on board if they're not feeling too superior when they pick their next playlist. If someone can tell me how to pronounce her surname I'd be rather grateful...
Hmm, feisty females seem to be the order of the day. No problem for me!
So, let me hear your suggestions and what you think of mine...
P.S. Merry (almost) Christmas!
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