A New Decade In Pop: Week #8

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Haiti Helpers still at #1, 'We Are The World' only manages #50.

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Brits watch: As well as Flo & Dizz's #2 spot, all five of Lady Gaga's top 100 entries have moved up a dozen or so places, Jay-Z and Alicia are back in the top 20, 'The Fear' goes from #173 to #89 and 'Fight For This Love' scraps into the top 40. Lifetime achiever Robbie Williams doesn't do too well in the singles but his greatest hits collection climbs 63 places and his new album goes back in the top 10.

Dancing: Dudes, POPTIMISM is on Friday. Just sayin' like.

Comments

[koganbot]

Florence/Dizzee Rascal "You Got The Dirtee Love": "Dirtee Cash" was my favorite Dizzee single from last year, and this ups the excitement from that, Dizzee more dynamic and driving than when ensconced in the "Cash" upbeat arrangement, and this drive helps propel a Florence vocal that had been dead lead on her album. Let's hear it for mashups and medleys, hurrah. YOU GOT THE TICK.

Lemar "The Way Love Goes": The AutoTune polishes and brightens what already was a nice melody; for the first couple of minutes we're heading sweetly to Ticksville, but eventually the electrobrightness can't compensate for the cumulative drag of a doggedly dull voice. NO TICK.

Courteeners "You Overdid It Doll": Strong guitar strum, pretty tune, heavy, dark singing, and smug words, the singer glad to tell the woman that she's running herself to ruin with her obsessive pleasure. Ugly. NO TICK.

Chris Brown "Crawl": "And now I can't reach your face." Yes, Chris, that's what restraining orders are about. "Love, can't you see my hand?" The man doesn't have a clue. NO TICK.

Leona Lewis "I Got You": Lotsa vocal pieces and parts, none overplayed, but that's the problem: no exuberance inhabits this versatility, no melismas or swoops threaten to run free. NO TICK.