Yet Another Year In Pop: 5

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The wintry weather hasn't stopped Lily parachuting straight in at number one; other high climbers using their pickaxes and oxygen apparatus include Alesha (who moves into the top ten) and Jason Mraz (who just misses out at 11). The rest of the chart might as well be stuck in a snowdrift.

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Comments

[mcarratala.livejournal.com]

I think the Lex is getting stuck on content and personality here: the big difference with The Fear is that Lily is serving the song, rather than just the whole thing being a vehicle for her attitude (I really like Smile, but not much else she has done until now). And it's a kind of whooshing tune, and she's never done anything that sounded like that before. Sonically – as I may have said before – it is far closer to About You Now than to any of Lily's previous stuff.