Yet Another Year In Pop: 20

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The Peas finally nab their 2nd number one, Eminem and Shontelle scrape into the top 40. Plus, what do you get when a duck attempts re-entry? Geddit? RE-ENTRY.

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Lower reaches watch: this week's bizarre re-entry is Dizzee Rascal's Fix Up Look Sharp at #78. Any ideas?

Comments

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Agreed on the chorus, which is really stupid (though I like when he actually tells people what his shoe size is, and when he gives up the metaphor -- "I mean, you don't really have to do that, I guess"). But this is the one track that I kind of like how the overall blandness (or maybe just "distance") interacts with the words. The song sounds like it's wheezing along with him, and even he kind of loses the effort after those first few verses, despite the fact that it's about six-seven minutes long! But his Marshall Mathers flow is fully intact and it seems like he says what he needs to say in about two verses.