A New Decade In Pop: Week #12

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Gaga and Beyoncé's video epic has done the trick: 'Telephone' climbs up to #1 and The Fame gets the top album spot. Otherwise a quiet week, especially for poor old Goldfrapp (down to #76 already, yikes).

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Comments

[koganbot]

Inna "Hot": Romanian cutie pie's effective anono-ache contrasts with equally emotional coffee beats. TICK.

Skepta "Bad Boy": Guy won't give with the compliments, girl nags and mopes, guy even less likely to compliment, downward spiral, let's dance! BORDERLINE TICK.

Glee Cast "True Colors": For once a Glee track that isn't overarranged, resulting in a singer who sounds evocative and vulnerable and who retains her appeal even when the choir jumps in. This is my first Glee tick ever, albeit an unenthusiastic one. It helps that the original was kind of sloggy, so Glee isn't clobbering something fine here. BORDERLINE TICK.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I'm intrigued as to what you mean by 'coffee beats', Frank!

[koganbot]

I suppose they were originally popcorn beats, but the sort of percolating popping electro sounds that appeared in some coffee commercial that I vaguely remember. (Here's Hot Butter's "Percolator," their follow up to "Popcorn," though it's not what got used in the commercial.)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Aha, I get you.

Blimey, Percolator sounds like its being wound up by hand.

[koganbot]

I originally wrote "contrasts with percolating coffee beats" but decided that "equally emotional" was more crucial to what I was trying to say, and couldn't combine them since "equally emotional percolating coffee beats" contained one too many adjectives and one too many l's.

[koganbot]

Maybe "equally emotional jumping beans" would have worked; or "equally emotional popcorn beats," but "popcorn" and "jumping" were too happy for the mood, whereas "percolating coffee" was right, if it had only fit.