Yet Another Week In Pop: 18

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

A day late thanks to the Bank Holiday (and my poor memory), but not much has changed - Tinchy is still at Number 1.

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Comments

[astroma.livejournal.com]

I quite like Let's Get Excited, but I think there are much better songs on Alesha's album than LGE.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Ironik - wrt to the last Tinchy/Chipmunk singles, I said that I was never going to root for a grime MC to cross over again if this is how they were going to do it. Ironik is someone I wasn't even rooting for in the first place. V possibly the worst rapper in the UK. Use of the sample is obv horrific.

Miley - I don't think I get this o_0

Demi - ♥ ♥ I love how jaunty and alive she sounds

Maccabees - *ignore request* *block user*

Alesha - the word "excited" isn't very, er, exciting, is it? Certainly not enough to base an entire chorus around it. God, she should be so much better than this! The entire arrangement seems afraid to commit to any style whatsoever. Alesha, listen to me: UK FUNKY. DO IT.

[koganbot]

Ironik et al. "Tiny Dancer": Warm Elton John song that I like, old school Enjoy Records ebullient post-funk hip-hop arrangement that I also like, but the combination is a quagmire, like a very ham-fisted mashup. Obviously this has impact on some people or it wouldn't be charting, but I'm only hearing a weak mess. NO TICK.

Miley Cyrus "Hoedown Throwdown": Would make way more sense to put Chipmunk on this track, since what we've got is a catchy chant but little melody or power beyond that. Chipmunk could have given it force, a center. BORDERLINE TICK DEE-TICK DEE-TICK.

Demi Lovato "La La Land": Sounds committedly passionate and hilariously exuberant at the same time, the latter not undercutting the former in the least. TICK TICK LAND.

Maccabees "Love You Better": This sounds like someone took scissors and an electric fan to a U2 track to make it fragmented and wavering. The approach has promise, but it needs a better song, and the singer's quaver needs more feeling. NONTICK.

Alesha Dixon "Let's Get Excited": Punchy but not particularly inspired. Would work OK on the dance floor, but I'm not on the dance floor. Makes me weary of the genre to listen to this, to tell you the truth. (The genre being popped-up Brit r&b?) NO TICK.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Wait, hang on. Miley's ACTUALLY RELEASING a song called 'Hoedown Throwdown?'






*tumbleweed*

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

With the exception of Miley, every song on this list sounded like a cutout, a pale imitation of a genre. Exactly as Frank says, makes me tired of music to listen to this stuff.