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]

Which Lady Antebellum track did you hear? They're up to their second album and have had a slew of hits here already. When I first heard them I thought "Air Supply" but with enough of a country tinge to be country, also something of a Fleetwood tinge, though not nearly as much of either as Little Big Town has (click the Little Big Town link and we'll see if you think of the same song I do). Best Lady Antebellum song by far* is "Need You Now"; Hillary Scott's got something of a Taylor quaver, but the melodies are more solidly adult California contemporary (not that this is a chasm of difference). Best track on the first Lady Antebellum album is "All We'd Ever Need" which is even more not traditional country than "Need You Now" but to my mind is solidly country anyway, there being about forty years of this sort of country MOR mixture that Xhuxk would know about far more than I would.

*Haven't heard much of their second album, so perhaps it's got further greatness beyond "Need You Now," but Xhuxk is meh towards it so far. Lady Antebellum's most recent single, "American Honey," has a strong enough Anglo-American "folk" feel to establish its country bona fides, and has a nice little tune, but doesn't break through for me. I write about it a bit on my lj.

[meserach.livejournal.com]

That "Need You Now" link doesn't seem to work for me Frank, I assume because of a UK/US thing possibly?

[koganbot]

Possibly is a UK/US thing; it's YouTube. See if this MySpace link works?

Who killed bembi?

[koganbot]

By the way, all the lyric sites say that the first line is "Picture perfect memories, scattered all around the floor," but what she's saying doesn't sound like "memories." It sounds like two syllables beginning with a b, "picture perfect bembies," which doesn't make any sense, and but it still is what I'm hearing, not "memories."

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

According to the Radio 2 website, it was "Need You Now" and "American Honey" I heard.