A few pinches of freshness

[credoimprobus]

I've been meaning to post a couple of album tracks from Ashanti's new The Declaration for a number of weeks, but she totally beat me to the punch by making one of them the second single!

Production courtesy of Jermaine Dupri, smashing stuff. The 'wooo!'s = gold. And adorable video! The visual style suits the song to a T.

(The other track I had set up is Rodney Jerkins brainchild So Over You: kind of turn-of-the-millennium retro, and a right stomper.)

Elsewhere, summer movie season brings us this:

The tinkly/sparkly backing is sort of completely addictive, and the beats are killer. Keri Hilson's contribution is pretty minimal; mostly she provides atmospherics (if very effective atmospherics!). [Produced by poptimist favourite Polow da Don; he's really shaping up as a producer of the year, isn't he?]

Speaking of Keri Hilson, we FINALLY have a debut solo single:

It borders on the nice but eh until the moment in the chorus when that THRUM (like the one in Danity Kane's Is Anybody Listening! read: OMG) slides in under the music, and the emotion just SWELLS -- and then that middle eight, omg! It's been a looong wait for her official solo career launch, but this certainly fulfills all the heightened expectations I've built up over all that time. CANNOT WAIT FOR THE ALBUM.

Comments

[koganbot]

Also, taking a look at your Top 20, I see Kat DeLuna's "Run The Show" real high; it got only a little more airplay in the U.S. than "We Break The Dawn" did, its support being in the clubs.

[credoimprobus]

It topped out at no. 2, even! It's starting to descend again, but it really is awesome that it managed to get that high.