Another Year In Pop: 43

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

We have a new number one! That makes it 18 singles going straight into the top ten for Girls Aloud (only their third #1, mind), round of applause there.

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Bonkers re-entry watch: Purple Rain by Prince. Any ideas?

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

It's the chorus which annoys me most actually - it feels really hollow and bleh. The melody goes nowhere and it may as well be about nothing for all the emotion they put into it. (As a side note, GA have never been great at conveying emotion - 'Whole Lotta History' is probably their most moving performance to date - they've always got by on attitude and production. Here they're trying to do a love song but sound as though they haven't even read the lyrics, they're just singing words. Cf Amerie, who's tackling much the same subject on '1 Thing' but you can hear the thrill in every note. And J-Hud, whose performance on 'Spotlight' manages to convey every tiny nuance of a complex emotional situation.)