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]

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' :-(