AYIP Supplement August 2008: Masks and Whips and Microphones

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

After a quiet July, August got us back to over twenty #41-#75 hits on the UK singles charts. These are tabulated below, with youtube links except for where I couldn't find any (Nicki Bliss??). WHATEVER WILL YOU TICK?

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Four of July's 11 tracks are ahead of the 30% mark as of the now, a pretty good proportion actually. Three of them are Ladyhawke's "Paris Is Burning", The Feeling's "Turn It Up", and Goldfrapp's "Caravan Girl". But way ahead in front, and indeed leading the whole thing, is "I Know Ur Girlfriend Hates Me" by Annie (from Bergen), with an impressive 81.8%!

No disqualifications occurred this month.

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Well, to an extent all r&b is about selling the cliche, but Lloyd's cliches really are so cliched (and by his standards as well as the genre's). I think the more wtf comedy moments are worse than the standard loverman stuff though ("have my baby"? EW) - BUT I also think he still gets away with the selling because his voice is still pretty mesmerising, it's got this tantalising mirage quality to it which no one else really has.

Seems as though 2008 has been more about r&b boys and aging divas than girls; or at least, the girls aren't releasing albums (CASSANDRA VENTURA). Roll on Jazzy and J-Hud.