May RIP

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Summer is officially here (and it's raining)! Here's a few threads you might have missed over the last month:

Wonky pop versus landfill indie
Miserable music
Ashlee's album dissected in full
Seth Godin's Passion-Pop curve
Where are our summer jams?
How often should your favourite record change?
Transferable poptimism
Eurovision post-mortem
Ting Tings take over the charts

[Poll #1198489]

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We didn't do an April RIP so feel free to tell us about stuff you heard in April too!

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May new stuff:
Santogold "L.E.S. Artistes"
Lindsay Lohan "Bossy"

May new to me but not to the world:
The Oskar & Psycholovers "How To Find Bin Laden"
Mélissa Mars "Apocalips"
Matia Bazar "Ti Sento"

April new stuff:
Mariah Carey f. Young Jeezy "Side Effects" (analyzed by me and Lex two-thirds of the way down the Ashlee thread because MARIAH COMPARES HERSELF TO A CHANDELIER)
Lil Mama "L.I.F.E."
Teenagers In Tokyo "Very Vampyr"