Another Year In Pop: 45

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Blimey! A bumper crop of new entries this week, with four lovely ladies barging their way into the top ten. None of them have knocked off the X Factor mess at the top yet, but give it time...

[Poll #1294584]

Bizarre re-entry watch: last week a competitive singing television programme had a disco theme which explains Blondie at no.91, but why is 'Mr Brightside' by the Killers in at 60? In the battle of the 'Hero's, Enrique is now ahead of Mariah (94 and 100 respectively), but expect that to change after Mariah's triumphant pulverising of everyone else on Saturday's X Factor...

Comments

[koganbot]

Don't have time to post in full, but I ticked more this week than any other week this year, and I even could stand my nonticks more than whatever they did last time. (Didn't count the Bellamys, though I might have ticked if they weren't a reentry.)

TICKS: Xina and Leona are workmanlike without much character and that's fine, it's music. Alesha and Beyonce I heard and liked a few days ago I forget why except I liked Beyonce being dark in a major key, or something. "Womanizer" is still disappointing and still good,* Rihanna yodels the song into darkness in "Live Your Life," and I barely know anything about Will Young but on the basis of this track's natural-born sweetness I'm ready to be fan.

*I like "Kill The Lights" much more: Starts stunningly with a rhythm 'n' soul groove, then goes too normally moody in the middle but finishes strong by getting goofy with a fake accent. Not the touchdown it almost was, but good slinky nu-Brit.