Another Year In Pop: 24

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

A very static top 20 this week - although last week's highest new entrant Morrissey has totally disappeared out of the top 100 already! Mint Royale are still at number one, milking it for all it's worth.

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[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Hopefully some of these will be shaking up the higher end of the chart imminently!

Jordin & Chris - definitely one of the singles of the year, completely ridiculous but so extreme about it - their OTT emoting is monumental and awe-inspiring - I mean the bit at the end where they're both going "OOHHHHH! OOOOOHHHHH!" over the chorus as if trying to outdo the other's pain and suffocation! Letting yourself get caught up in all that elemental life-or-death melodrama is an awesome pop feeling. Plus not one line in this song actually makes sense.

Madge - second of the three good songs on Hard Candy. Leaving aside how grim most of the album is, 'Give It 2 Me' is still fantastic - the problem with her voice now is that it's too tough, unmalleable, didactic, but it really suits 'Give It 2 Me' b/c it's all about how all those things are the source of her strength. More than strength - she pretty much explicitly stakes her claim to immortality, and she's right. I love the snobby sneer of "those are the people that did not amount to much at all", and the way the breakdown seems to be...some sort of hyphy nod??!! GET STUPID. GET STUPID. Madge for Hyphy Hitz Vol 2 please.

Flo Rida - haha talking of Madge, this is so blatantly the track Timba cribbed for '4 Minutes'. Decent enough banger, I like the ella-ella meme being used for "ella-ella-vator".

The others are basically beneath contempt. I especially don't want to hear any song called 'Chick Lit' by We Are Scientists.