Brit Nominations

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Popjustice sums it all up nicely

The list of bands (both UK and International) makes for underwhelming reading, but I think the list of UK singles from 2007 is quite a reasonable reflection of what's been going on in British pop*:

Leona Lewis – Bleeding Love
Mika – Grace Kelly
Take That – Shine
Kaiser Chiefs – Ruby
Sugababes – About You Now
Mark Ronson Ft Amy Winehouse – Valerie
Kate Nash – Foundations
The Hoosiers – Worried About Ray
James Blunt – 1973
Mutya Buena – Real Girl

Personally, I'd have trouble picking a winner out of Take That and Sugababes. The only truly mediocre song on that list is Mutya and her string sample.

*Call The Shots wuz robbed, etc

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Ruby has really grown on me of late! I keep hearing the chorus on trailers for stuff and forgetting who it's by. The verse is terrible, but it's interestingly terrible in that I could yabber on about it all day. Whereas Mutya - why is she even bothering? She is the new Kelly Rowland, ie complete loss of personality as a solo artist now there is no-one to compare her to: she's a cool ice queen up against Beyonce & a naughty sprite when teamed up with Nelly, but on her own she looks totally gormless. Mutya was the bitchy one in S-babes but on her own she's all smiley and bland.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I think Kelly Rowland brought the sass on 'Like This', or "lak theeez" as it should be known.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

'Like This' is a good song, but in the video (which I was watching last night) Kelly tries and fails to do this 'comedy' face the entire way through, and ends up being totally outclassed by Eve.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I think Kelly R definitely has a personality on record! it's to do with all these ideas of dignity and restraint - not glacial by any means, but kind of...almost repressed? It's tied up in notions of social status as well, remember how DC are all posh girls - Kelly has all these emotions simmering beneath the surface but she's *classy*, not a ghetto hothead like Mary J Blige or Keyshia Cole.