Yet Another Year In Pop: 34

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Another number one for David Guetta - this time it's Akon helping him out.

[Poll #1448129]

REMINDER: Tomorrow the 2000s polls resume with a vengeance - you have until tomorrow lunchtime to make up your mind about Wyclef and Andrew WK. Remember, if it's a tie then I get the deciding vote...

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[rechabite.livejournal.com]

An extremely poor week for new entries and I hope this doesn't represent the beginning of a autumn of 1982-style downturn (in reality it simply represents a slow week in summer).

Esmee Denters - anonymous, efficient, could-be-anybody pop. You'd think a Justin Timberlake discovery would have more originality but given that the usual Dreary Squad (Ryan Tedder &c) are being marshalled for her album this clearly isn't the case.

Just Jack - worst single of the year. I'm not keen on songs where the singer dies ("El Paso" and so forth) but this is creepy as well as dull. And I speak as someone who was hit by a 52 bus and lived to tell the tale. I mean, Eno got knocked over by a taxi and invented ambient music so in 2009 Just Jack just won't do.

Sean Paul - sounds as though he was pressganged into doing this. Limp rhymes, next to nil enthusiasm and it's just not enough these days to push a few buttons and clock in and out of making pop.

Kasabian - look, I'm all for school rock band competitions but keep it to Anne Boleyn Secondary, eh, chaps?

Lady Gaga - the only new entry this week I like and it's the fourth single off a nine-month-old album. Says it all.

Temper Trap - Australian U2 tribute band - chord sequence from "With Or Without You," guitar lines from "Where The Streets Have No Name," strained vocal of "I Still Haven't Found Where I'm Looking For" - bore me rigid but thanks to the cricket it'll stand a fair chance of getting to number one.