The month in pop: JANUARY

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Haven't had one of these for a while!

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As ever, the definition of 'new' is fully open to interpretation. If it's new to you, that counts! Expanding your answer in the comments is warmly encouraged.

Comments

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

amnesia is, as i have said elsewhere, the best song on 'circus' by roughly four million miles. it sounds like 'hey mickey' remixed by tv on the radio with perky snow-synths and awesome literal-interpretation of a stuttering reference, which is always good.

and yes, i did only hear in january because i am the slowest person ever.

[koganbot]

Well, the melody/chord pattern is classic doo-wop (e.g., Dion "Runaround Sue").

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

i wondered what that style was called. i was thinking more beach boys-esque but they sort of aped doo-wop if i remember rightly?

[koganbot]

Well, they're not throwing any counter-melodies and "bomp-d'bomb-d'bomps" into "Amnesia," so in that sense she's not diving headfirst into doo-wop (though the "you-oo-oo" and the "me-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee" are in the spirit), but she does use a chord pattern (I-vi-IV-V) that was used by something like two-thirds of the doo-wop songs. Not to say that it wasn't used on non-doo-wop songs. It was already the chord pattern of "Blue Moon," which had been recorded by a shitload of pop singers before the Marcels came along and turned it into doo-wop.