May RIP

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

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]

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on the first half of Santogold!

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Ditto. It's like she ran out of songs halfway through.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"Lights Out" and "I'm A Lady" are good but otherwise yes, all the rub ones are on side two.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

don't feel anything but that first track. listened more to sam sparro!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Clearly 'Creator' is SO GOOD that anything afterwards is going to have trouble living up to it.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Actually I like 'Unstoppable' too, but it's not as good as Estelle's 'Magnificent', which has the same number of syllables.