Yet another year in pop, Week 6
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poptimistsHopefully Kat or anyone isn't doing this simultaneously, needed something to do whilst waiting to go to job centre. Might be a bit off because the official charts company hasn't updated yet so had to comb through the bbc chart instead.
[Poll #1346242]
Possibly I should have added this as a secondary poll question but when, if ever, did you last listen to the Chart Show, poptimists? I heard half of it last night, which is the most in about four years.
[Poll #1346242]
Possibly I should have added this as a secondary poll question but when, if ever, did you last listen to the Chart Show, poptimists? I heard half of it last night, which is the most in about four years.
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Date: 2009-02-09 11:09 am (UTC)The Eminem track has a great beat but dear god I had forgotten how much his flow had fallen off the edge of a cliff. Embarrassing. I loved Em back in the day but more than any other artist he seems very much of his time, and I haven't even felt like listening to his good material in years. Could definitely have done without this comeback.
Coldplay blahhh.
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Date: 2009-02-09 11:11 am (UTC)(also OMG CHRIS BROWN/RIHANNA DRAMA OMG)
(also, Adele beating Jazmine Sullivan to Best New Artist? You have got to be fucking joking.)
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Date: 2009-02-09 11:15 am (UTC)Oh bvgger, I thought that was the one about his dad dying or whatever from ages ago still kicking around. Will have to put it in next week.
High Contrast remix of 'Hometown Glory' is very very good, possibly all judges had been raving around to that and mistook Adele for interesting popstar.
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Date: 2009-02-09 11:25 am (UTC)Ok, here’s the low down we got from an extremely credible PR source on the ground at the Grammys. Said source tells TheYBF.com that the “car accident” story is false and is being used to throw everyone off. Rihanna is DEFINITELY the victim of domestic violence and is now pressing charges against her boyfriend Chris Brown as we speak. Early this morning while leaving Clive Davis’ party, the two got into a physical altercation in their limo and he punched Rihanna in the face. We’re told that’s when he/the limo dropped her at Hancock Park in L.A., and she ran and called 911. He left the scene and hasn’t been found since. We’re told Chris has until midnight tonight to turn himself in to LAPD. Otherwise, he will be arrested as soon as he’s spotted by an LAPD officer. We’re told Rihanna is definitely in the hospital recovering as we speak.
I definitely want to check out the J-Hud, 'Tie My Hands' and 'Swagga Like Us' (with pregnant MIA) performances from the Grammys...
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Date: 2009-02-09 09:15 pm (UTC)this poll-creation lark is harder than it looks.
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Date: 2009-02-09 11:12 am (UTC)What I properly don't get is who the fvck Madcon are and why they're doing so well, in bland hip hop news. Their current video sees them stalking schoolgirls in the changing room ffs. :/
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Date: 2009-02-09 04:00 pm (UTC)Eminem "Crack A Bottle": Sigh. So he's singing. In the old days, when he played ringmaster it'd be a riff on the idea of his becoming a spectacle and would actually be funny. This is just trying to be a party and not succeeding. "'Cause when I spit the verse the shit gets worse than worcestershire sauce." How uninspired can you get? Beat and tune are catchy enough, however, though just barely. Best line I heard was from Dre, "I'm a niche that they can't scratch," though unfortunately that's probably a mishearing. BORDERLINE TICK.
Daniel Merriweather f. Wale "Change": Impassioned singer singing about whatever he's singing about. I kinda like the sound. Wale is no great splash of light, but "Get higher than the background singers singing" is wittier than anything in the Em song. BORDERLINE TICK.
Coldplay "Life In Technicolor 2": Remember when meaning meant something, or something? Not altogether unpleasant in its soaring blah. A very poor man's U2. But no need to listen twice to this vapidity. NONTICK.
N-Dubz "Strong Again": The guy-voice is dogged, sorta OK, and the woman singing "Never ever ever ever" pushes the wall a few millimeters. BORDERLINE TICK (unless it isn't; guess I've got another week to decide).
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Date: 2009-02-09 04:18 pm (UTC)(Only the radio edit is on Youtube, sadly...)
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Date: 2009-02-09 05:48 pm (UTC)I like her dreamy, impassioned pale vulnerability, reminds me of the fetching Sadie Ama. I think a bassline version would be even better, since I fall for the whole contrast between bass aggression and a singer's drifting poignancy.
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Date: 2009-02-09 09:46 pm (UTC)Anyway the original 'Do You Mind' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YuIAB48oKI) WAS a bassline track - the Crazy Cousinz mix was the one that blew up though, and I way prefer it. (Paleface is one half of Crazy Cousinz, and by himself I think he's done more bassline stuff; his younger cousin Flukes did the remix, and together as CC they do funky house.)
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