Another Year In Pop: 17

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Biggish week this week - lots of Poptimists favourites and non-favourites on show here!

[Poll #1178937]

Comments

Warning, containts Adele rant

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Good week I think!

Wombats - Oh dear. The dudes who like the Rapture are taking the piss out of Wired For Sound. Dude that's like sacrelige. This has an extremely annoying chorus. They all have bad hair. If someone is slapping him then I think he is either going to the wrong sort of disco or probably deserves it. No ticky.

Robyn - Oh yes this one. I knew I knew it, but couldn't remember exactly and kept singing Eurythmics instead. She still has good hair. Perhaps the Wombats should try having hair like Robyn's. The chorus is still good but the verse is underwhelming, luckily the electro wibble carries it along. TickX0r.

Hoosiers - It is indeed totally the Lovecats but whatevs, I like the Lovecats. And I still like the Hoosiers. Perhaps enough to buy their album but lets not be hasty. Good urchin leg-kick at the end. Tick.

Ashlee - Hooray! Best of the week, no question. Ay-Ay-Ay-Ay Yaa! I'm sad that the radio edit cuts out Timbaland's "AAAASHLEER! Am I getting on yr NERRRVES?" I like her much better when she does Baffled as opposed to Kooky. I mean, it must be quite baffling being Ashlee Simpson. Like waking up and finding half your nose has gone. Or that you're sitting on a giant Rubiks Cube with no idea how you got there.

Script - Er I only caught 15 seconds of this as we were watching Joe Swail do a 133 break to save the match. I'm guessing from that brief glimpse that this is some American chap trying to do a James Blunt with some high budget production. I am certain that it will do very well and be the next Onerepublic or something but I can safely say it is Not For The Likes Of Me. No tick.

Adele - God I can't BEAR the way she looks up at the camera, then flutters her eyelashes down and does this 'bleeergh' thing with her lower lip. GET ONE TIMES NEW FACIAL EXPRESSION. She just comes across as sneery and dislikeable whenever I look at her. I've just moved the Text Editor window over the Youtube box and the song has VASTLY IMPROVED. I like her vocal intonation on the chorus, the strained foghorn really works well with the melody and the backing is interesting (good use of cello and clinkle-bells). I'm giving the song a tick as I want to hear it again but I can't bear to watch her sing it. SMILE WOMAN. Or at least DO SOMETHING. Please! Just don't stand there like a fvcking melon so our attention is drawn to your annoying facial ticks. DO SOMETHING. Mow the lawn, ride a unicorn, whatever, anything but trying to show us that it doesn't matter what you look like if you're a good singer, and it doesn't except this isn't just a song, it's a video, and if you're not going to do something interesting with that you might as well just shove a photo still up and have done with it. Crikey that turned into a bit of a rant.

Pendulum - I've not heard much Pendulum apart from their other single that cropped up a while back. The start sounds like a goth version of that Arctic Monkey dude's new thing from the other week? Oooh, the 8-bit Atari riff is good when it kicks in, the rest of the song falls a bit flat though. Hahaha this would make a good mashup with different vocals on the top of the drum-n-bass-y bits, perhaps the theme from Emmerdale? Hello there, guess what I've been dancing to all weekend. Marginal tick as there is def some potential here.

Wiley - Still awesome, but too short and not really meaty enough. It needs a proper middle 8. Tick of course, tho.

Re: Warning, containts Adele rant

[edgeofwhatever.livejournal.com]

Adele - God I can't BEAR the way she looks up at the camera, then flutters her eyelashes down and does this 'bleeergh' thing with her lower lip.

I believe this is the sole reason why I haven't listened to anything other than the first five seconds of her first single.