Another Year In Pop: 33

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Katy Perry remains astride the top of the charts, and Solange gets her first taste of the top 40.

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Inexplicable re-entry watch: Miley Cyrus jumps from 141 to 76 with 'See You Again'. Also, the Fightstar album has entered the charts at number 86, well done there Charlie :)

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[koganbot]

This week is a welcome respite, though hardly amazing. One clear winner, one clunker, the rest borderline.

Madcon "Beggin": Great song that he adds absolutely nothing of value to, but would be worth a tick anyway if his voice weren't heavy and inflexible and he'd come even a quarter-way towards the goose-bumping deliriousness of the Four Seasons' harmonies. NOT TICKIN'.

Bloc Party "Mercury": Fractured dance rhythm, gets your immediate attention, though Okereke's voice isn't nearly compelling enough to carry the track's spareness. But the thing gains force when the big bass enters and slathers a dark mood underneath. Doesn't totally work, but it kicks. KICK EARNS TICK.

Little Jackie "The World Should Revolve Around Me": Good groove, a pleasant contrast to the pummeling Bloc Party gave us, but I'm nowhere with the verse and in tepidity with the chorus, despite the lilt. Summer breeze, but needs summer heat. BORDERLINE NONTICK.

Solange "I Decided": More summer sweetness, thrown into a Motown past but jazzed into the present à la Destiny's Child. Solange's voice isn't a burner, the melody isn't riveting, but this has so much bubbling stuff in it that it's an easy TICK.

Keane "Spiralling": Big horns and whoos, beats just as big but clompy and swingless, singing an attempt at expansiveness from a man who can't expand. The spoken interlude just batters us with stupidity. TICKLESSING.

Taio Cruz "She's Like A Star": Male-passion r&b sweetness but it's got nothing distinctive. Dull, though not unpleasant. HE'S NOT A TICK.