Another Year In Pop: 7

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Dudes we've totally got a new number one! Welsh lass Duffy has booted off Basshunter into the murky depths of number three. But is she any good at all?

[Poll #1140294]
NB Tickers should bear in mind that the Utah Saints track is a new remix, 'Something Good '08'.

Comments

[koganbot]

Duffy "Mercy": Wait, this isn't all that much like Amy anyway (or all that much like "Rockferry," for that matter). OK, the "yeah yeah yeah" does echoe Amy's "no no no," but this is basically a soul stormer of the sort once made in the American south and lauded in the English north, right? While Amy's much more aiming at the haze and smoke of late-night lounge. (Right?) (To tell you the truth, I've yet to indulge myself by immersing myself in an Amy album or a Duffy back-catalog, or in much of the enthusiasms of England North, either, so you guys may have a subtler grasp of the similarities here.) As for this track, I listened to it without having a clue to who Duffy was, forgetting all about the existence of "Rockferry" (and I can't remember if I ticked that or not, though it prob'ly justifies Amy comparisons more than this does, and I'm listening right now and liking it), this has a good strong groove, the voice has its own rasp (not sure yet if Lex is right about the anonymity of the rasp); the rasp and track seem to lose impact as they basically roll along unvaried, but this is an effective, functional blast of music, and a tick. And she looks like a babe.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Duffy is def easier on the eye than Adele. That sounds incredibly shallow and unfeminist of me but they are POPSTARS and I am more likely to watch a video all the way through if the occupants are pretty. Mmmm, lovely Heidi.