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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Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure it's so much the arrangement as the vocal performances - 'No Air' is the kind of song which can only really be sung in a certain way if it's going to maximise its effect. Understatement and maturity and distance really don't work - it's too fundamentally silly for that, but Jordin and Chris's youth means they can get away with the nihilistic life-or-death melodrama, because they sing it as though it's the very first time they've actually felt these emotions.