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

[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.