A kung fu fighter in a disco

Katy - I can't bear this.

Saturdays - whereas this is great!

Honey - she looks like a cross between Cascada and Sandi Thom, but sounds like RAWK. Daft hand-wringing lyrics but No tick.

Rihanna - as said previously, sounds too much like Eiffel 65 for my liking.

Kylie - botherd. Kylie, sort it out woman :(

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jeff-worrell.livejournal.com

She deserves a tick for turfing Kid Rock out of the top spot, as she surely will next week. Man I hate that Kid Rock song.

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jeff-worrell.livejournal.com

This is one of my favourites on X. Sounds like a Lynch-Badalamenti song from the Twin Peaks TV series.

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piratemoggy.livejournal.com

SRSLY.

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the song is shit but it feels like a WATERSHED ZEITGEIST MOMENT. if only Tatu had actually had more blatant song titles.

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Sigh. We may have wanted exciting chart turnover but NOT LIKE THIS.

Katy Perry - GNNGGGHH. Where to even begin? Katy Perry is just...wrong and awful, in so many ways. She's so desperate to be a talking point and she's positioned herself cleverly as an American Apparel-style indie hipster who's SHOCKING the MAINSTREAM with her radical sexual politics which are also sending up MAINSTREAM WHORES like Tila Tequila, except, you know, she's not even a hundredth as radical as Tila T (who is not radical either!). "I kissed a girl and I liked it" - so fucking what, Katy? Is that all you've got of interest for us? She tries to be witty but actually comes across as half-witted. I mean, any one of us could reel off a list of mainstream media figures who've used gay imagery in their work or who ACTUALLY ARE GAY and not one of them has been so craven as to disavow her sexuality - in K Perry's case her entire reason for existing as a pop star in the first place - by the end of the first chorus. I mean, I can't believe she even has the nerve to talk about sexual politics when she inserts her BOYFRIEND LOOK I HAVE A BOYFRIEND I AM HETERO AND OK so clumsily into the lyrics (in the most disingenuous way possible! "I hope he doesn't mind it" wtf have you even talked to a straight boy before? maybe you ARE gay after all).

Also, her voice is a horrible one-note bellowing thing and even if she was singing half-decent lyrics her music would still be unlistenable.

Saturdays - cheap-sounding half-hearted hookless electropop about nothing. Would've sounded dated even during the Rachel Stevens era. Video looks even cheaper - what was their budget, a tenner? Why even bother spending half of that on OFFICE FANS with THREE PATHETIC RIBBONS tied to them which actually make me cringe in embarrassment for them? Why must British pop be so unable to shake off the whiff of Topshop? Actually no, Topshop can be totally awesome - that's the Liberty X 'Just A Little' level. This is the bargain bin at Primark.

Honey Ryder - buh? who? Thought it was going to be a KT Tunstall folky thing at first, then it went all portentous and rocky and loud. I think she wants to be Shirley Manson but she fails to attain even Evanescence.

Rihanna - yes, this is great, not Riri at her best but made a lot better by the crazy video. Lyrics are better than the melody which is better than the arrangement. Autotune gimmick sounds lame on Rihanna though. Still, tick.

Kylie - I remember this being the only song on the album I liked. I neither remember it nor can be bothered to go back and listen to it but tick, anyway.

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there is nothing remotely zeitgeisty about it!

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CONCUR. wtf is wrong with people, KATY PERRY FIRST AND FOREMOST.

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All female entries this week. I expect that's probably happened before when there have only been 3 or 4 entries but maybe this is the most yet?

Would like to see a new all (or mostly) girl group that aren't in Sugababes/GA vein but could be successful.

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freakytigger.livejournal.com

Do you think it's just that you don't like electropop any more? Your comments every time there's an electropop song these days sound like the kind of things I used to say back in the Britpop era when I was an indie fan and eventuallly I just had to admit I didn't really like current indie.

No disagreement w.r.t Katy Perry though!

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I don't see any reason why Danity Kane couldn't be successful. If they were promoted anywhere at all.

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surely you would not like 'The One' now as it is one of the Harris tunes (aims to match level of 'I Believe In You' but doesn't really get there)

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Maybe - I still like the electropop stuff I liked then, though (R Stevens, Richard X et al - though I rarely listen to it), and there are still a number of electropop songs I love now (erm...do Junior Boys, Kelley Polar, The Knife, Jenny Wilson et al count?), but I do seem to be disappointed by it a lot. I think it's suffered from having fallen out of zeitgeisty favour so quickly, and as with all electronic genres it really does depend on not sounding dated - but all the electropop I hear now just seems to want to recreate its glory days. Still, I think the Saturdays' cheapness would be a lot more tolerable if the song was about anything at all.

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oh yes I remember it now, it's the really New Ordery one. Didn't know it was Calvin Harris but my praise doesn't stretch much beyond 6/10 anyway.

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jauntyalan.livejournal.com

"too much like Eiffel 65 for my liking"

!?!?!?!

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nunya-b.livejournal.com

lies! it's Freemasons/Biff Stannard.

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nunya-b.livejournal.com

-The Saturdays song I think is very catchy, very squarely aimed at the kind of person who would not recognize "Situation" at all, and it is really great in that respect because it is sing-along, mildly atonal in the verses, and then paired with a chorus that sounds like top-flight girl-band stuff. I am probably overanticipating this but I think it would be great to drunken karaoke along to- but I also know it's the weakest of the Saturdays' material (Up, Keep Her are both better and slated to be singles) so my opinion is altered by context clues.

-The Kylie Minogue song is amazing, full stop. It is amazing to the point that the Freemasons mix (usually the highlight of any singles release package) makes the song duller.

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I can confirm this is correct. C Harris co-wrote 'In My Arms' (with B Stannard).

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koganbot

Katy Perry "I Kissed A Girl": Gag, what makes me care about this woman? (Well, her having Cathy and Luke and Max on board may help in the ensnaring.) I've been writing about her hither and yon, said this a few days ago on rolling country:

"I Kissed A Girl" elicited instant hatred from everyone I know except Xhuxk, and I'm someone I know and it elicited instant hatred from me too, my reasons being that she's loud, stupid, obvious, coy, and grating, and more homophobic than not (literally "homophobic"* in that she's desperate to make sure we understand that this doesn't mean that she's a LESBIAN). But at least two of the haters - me and Nia - nonetheless like the song. (If you look at my list of adjectives, none of them preclude the music's being good.) Also, she's just a few years away from her days as a god-loving, faith-needing evangelical Christian singer, proclaiming that her faith will prevail over her sins and tribulations, while in the music she's a raw-voiced, dance-oriented Alanis. I'm a sucker for the massively conflicted, which she most certainly is.

This is a TICK, damn it.

(*That is, in this case, afraid of her own desire.)

Saturdays "If This Is Love": Ack, what totally lame, nonexistent singing. Wispy and whispery but totally missing the sensuousness that such whispers are supposed to imply. Best thing is the Yazoo sample, which Heidi Montag used a lot better. NO TICK.

Honey Ryder "Numb": Big-bosomed, er, big-voiced emoter sings her deep heart out w/ guitars loud in support of her feelings. Would be good in a Stevie Nicksical way if the melody were even half-interesting and the band weren't playing with webbed hands. "Honesty is a pain you might have to inflict on me." I INFLICT NONTICKS ON YOU.

Rihanna "Disturbia": I've written about this a zillion times too. Flicks sugar bits of disturbance that tingle on the skin. One of the songs of the year. I AM TICKING YOU TONIGHT.

Kylie Minogue "The One": Is this re-entry for the Freemasons remix? They seem to be losing last year's magic. Warm mouthwash vocals on a blah song get overwhelmed by beats coming up from underneath. NO TICK.

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The chorus! 'Dum-dum-di-da-dum-dum-be-dum-dum, blue da-ba-dee-ba-da-daa' etc. It's like Rihanna took 'Don't Stop The Music' and removed any essence of humanity or exuberance. 'Disturbia' is one of the dullest electropop songs I've ever heard - at least Eiffel 65 had a vaguely catchy melody.

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jauntyalan.livejournal.com

k perry - pfft to radio 2s reckid of the week last month.
saturdays oh it's the SITUATION song. easy if not great tick
lotta fagina - close, reallay close, but no
ree anna - another ok-ish tick
kyles - is this a re-release, or did they just play this a lot when the album came out. again OK tick.

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jauntyalan.livejournal.com

i see the resemblance, but "too much like GREAT THING for my liking" still doesn't work

;-)

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This is the first official release for 'The One', yes - I guess it must have just got played on the radio a bit.

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I have prior Eiffel 65 beef! :)

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