Another Year In Pop: 5

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Tough luck Adele - Basshunter is still giving you a slap round the chart chops! The top 5 is looking pretty familiar, but what else is going on in this week's chart?

[Poll #1132774]

(Apologies if I've missed anything or repeated anything - the blimmin' Radio 1 page hasn't put up the new entry/high climber details yet so I'm going on guesswork here.)

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Hot Chip - This one has been going round in my brain all weekend after I didnt play it at Poptimism: HOT CHIP'S REVENGE. I think Matt is right about the amateurishness working on this one. In my head the vocal sounds like China Crisis! Tick.

One Night Only - I quite liked its bounciness but rly is there a special school where they train people to be boring singers?

Elliot Minor - I always think, oh EM get a raw deal, we all like Busted dont we, and then I hear them. They are OK at writing verses that make you think you're going to get a really great pop-punk chorus, on this evidence.

Mark Brown ft Sarah Cracknell - residual loyalty to la crackers doesnt stop me recognising and disapproving of the hook here. Also she's pretty watery on it. Incidentally, there is a fucking DELUGE of post-Feist nonsense on the advertbox at the moment.

URBNRI - SWEET CHRISTMAS. I think the phrase is "God help us if there's a war".

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

what is the Cracknell hook? I don't recognise it...

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The cut up opera singer vox are from a Lloyds TSB advert (though I misremembered it as being from a phones advert, but it's mimsy whatever the product).

(Well, the whole track is a TSB ad, but not the cracknell bit which is added on to turn it into a song)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Oh ffs, adverts. Lloyds TSB eh? This may be enough to push it below tickworthiness for me.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

it'll be the DREADFUL Alesha single next which is being entirely promoted through the medium of a car advert.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Yikes I saw that on PJ - the song does sound pretty good but the video is SO UNSETTLING.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I think the song is pretty awful too! Horrid play-it-safe dishwater ballad-by-numbers which is made even worse when you think of how amazing Alesha once was. It's depressing to think that the best pop star this country has produced this decade has been reduced to this. WE WERE IN MIS-TEEQ. WE SANG 'B WITH ME' AND 'ONE NIGHT STAND' AND 'SCANDALOUS'. And...now...this...

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the nu pop biz I guess - the Guy Hands style vision of sponsored pop where everything's synergised like sport is.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

ha ha I feel bad now because this advert came on and C asked 'what is this song, it is on the radio at the moment' and I went 'don't be daft it is a rub advert theme and no-one in their mind would release it as a single' :-(

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

lumme urbnri are quite shocking aren't they?

DERE LORD (http://www.urbnri.com/bio.htm), if there's a war it looks like they'll all be locked up anyway...