Yet Another Year In Pop: 11

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Comic Relief dudes have nabbed the top spot, Oasis just scrape into the top ten. But even more horrifyingly, Annie Lennox has muscled her way in to the top 40 after some weeks of lower-reaches-bothering (argh I was desperately hoping this wouldn't chart).

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Unrelated admin note: Would anyone be desperately upset if we turned off anonymous comments to combat the j-spam?

Comments

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Don't you like Annie Lennox then?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Annie Lennox is perfectly fine but this song (and the accompanying video) is one of the worst things in pop this year.

J-spam...

[mrs-leroy-brown.livejournal.com]

...is annoying, but I must admit the ongoing baby-marriage saga as played out on P'mists late Sat nite / Sun am / other ppl's blogs was weirdly interesting.

[koganbot]

Week of re-entries, retreads, old stuff from elsewhere, and general weariness.

Jenkins, West, Jones, Gibb "Islands In The Stream": Nice song, they can't sing, OK when Tom Jones shows up. NO TICK.

Oasis "Falling Down": Vocals do a slow grind, drums carry the rhythm, not enough to sustain its mood, but is tuneful. TICK.

September "Can't Get Over": New UK mix ramps up the energy on what sounds like a retread of "She Drives Me Crazy." In general I like how September layers raw drama onto dance prettiness, but this isn't one of her better efforts. BORDERLINE NONTICK.

Katy Perry "Thinking Of You": Weeper about kissing one boy, missing another, plays up the raggedy-ann aspects of her voice; tune is dullsville. Agony. NO TICK.

Metro Station "Shake It": Rockin' out on a catchy track that in its heart longs to be synthpop. Miley bro barely adequate at putting a superior attitude in his talk voice, relying on Oliver bro to bring the emo emotion, which he does. TICK.

Annie Lennox "Shining Light": Jaunty ode to bright beacon ends up clompy and blah. NO TICK.

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I just really like the song 'Islands In The Stream'.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Dear oh dear. What a week. A Lennox and Waysis both a marginal 'no tick', and don't know if I've heard September, the rest are just dreadful.

I can't remember many occasions where ppl needed to comment here anonymously.

Nostalgia

[(Anonymous)]

In early 2006 I would comment here anonymously all the time.

Nostalgia Spice

P.S. But really, I don't see any problem with eliminating anonymous comments.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

That Metro Station song is awful and I like it anyway. D:

Europe denies culpability

[koganbot]

Listening to this Metro Station album I got for two dollars...

Dave M: ...Huh, hyper Europop emo! I mean, I suppose I could have guessed from "Shake It," but I'm surprised (on the first few tracks) with how consistent and unabashed the sound is. I'm going to go ahead and say "look at what Cascada hath wrought," even though I have no proof whatsoever that they had anything to do with it.

Jessica P: Europop? I'm insulted! We're taking no responsibility for Metro Station.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Oh I'm so glad I went for a boozy lunch today. Saved me from thinking about these. All are just beyond bad. Negative ticks.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

oh and yeah turn off anonocomments, definitely!

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

Hearing Metro Station and September on YouTube makes them sound even more like androids.

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Good lord, Annie Lennox deserves prosecution for what she does to Guilding Light - such a joyous, innocent, uplifting song and she turns it ponderous mush.