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]

That top 10 isn't very exciting but it could be a lot worse. I would give it at least 6/10. 'Starry Eyed' in particular has grown on me a lot! I apologise to Ellie for implying that she might smell on the 'don't like any' option.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Top ten looks pretty good for once but sadly I have only heard two of the songs (Ellie Goulding and Rihanna, so RiRi gets the vote) so may be impaired on the assessment side of things.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Also I am frankly baffled as to why Alicia Keys hasn't released 'Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart' over here yet (wiki says a May release is planned? MAY?????), as it is EPIC and SAD and LOVELY and it sounds like a SPACESHIP driven by Stanley Kubrick is taking off in the background and it makes me like Alicia's raspy old voice that I previously mildly disliked and you should all listen to it if you haven't already:

Skepta

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

OMG is he trying to do a 'Born Slippy'?

Inna

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Blimey wasn't expecting that at all - it's like something off a Claude Von Stroke techno mix. Not bad! Definitely worth an 'any good at all' tick.

[credoimprobus]

Agree w/ Kat re: the Inna being a pleasant surprise -- overall it would rate just a 'nice enough', but BLOODY HELL WHAT A BEAT. That beat would forgive a LOT of sins.

Telephone = officially the first Gaga single I've loved since Just Dance (and my love for Just Dance was always complicated by the fact that I came to love it in an environment that disguised the wishy-washiness of the production, making me think it was much more boshing and awesome until I youtubed it at home). So well done everyone involved there!

[rechabite.livejournal.com]

Well done to GaGa for the double, keeping the Glee robots from getting a second unwarranted number one album. Thoroughly deserved.

The Skepta record doesn't take itself too seriously and is therefore fun.

The Inna record takes itself awfully seriously and is therefore awful.

[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.

[koganbot]

The UK chart is surprisingly good this week, one of the few weeks recently when it can hold its own with the U.S. Here's Billboard's top ten:

1. Rude Boy - Rihanna
2. Need You Now - Lady Antebellum
3. Break Your Heart - Taio Cruz ft. Ludacris
4. Imma Be - The Black Eyed Peas
5. Nothin' On You - B.o.B ft. Bruno Mars
6. Hey, Soul Sister - Train
7. BedRock - Young Money ft. Lloyd
8. TiK ToK - Ke$ha
9. Telephone - Lady Gaga ft. Beyoncé
10. In My Head - Jason Derulo

"Hey, Soul Sister" is easily the worst on either chart, and I'd say that of the best the Dizzee and the Tinie can compete with the Ke$ha and the Lady Antebellum (well, I'd definitely give the edge to the American two, but the Dizzee and the Tinie are at least in the same league; "Telephone" is on both lists so cancels itself out of the comparison; is a good song but I find the vocals too dogged, definitely prefer "Need You Now" and "TiK ToK" and "You Got The Dirtee Love," probably in that order). "BedRock" is really mediocre for a hip-hop hit. I do like "Nothin' On You"; rather sweet.