A New Decade In Pop: Week #14

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Hope you all had a nice long weekend! Yet another Facebook campaign manages to get ancient Christian rock band Delirious? into the top 5 for Easter weekend. But SATAN'S AGENTS* Scouting For Girls beat them to the top spot!

[Poll #1547933]
*NB Scouting For Girls may not actually be in league with the forces of darkness.
**New to you, or new to the world - however you interpret it is fine.

ORGAFUN ROUND-UP:
- This week sees the final group matches for all the teams in the Pop World Cup. Head over to Freaky Trigger to listen and vote in all current matches.
- There's still time to vote in Heat #1 of A Decade In Country! Heat #2 will go up tomorrow.
- The next round of Theme Songs is in progress! Suggest some songs for girlboymusic about Willingly Abstaining from Sex and/or Relationships Until You Find True Love or a Decent Man/Woman or Somesuch! You have until Friday.

Comments

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

Cripes, I used to sing that Delirious? song at church a LONG time ago. It's not very good. Silly Facebook!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I think I liked the last Plan B song better. He appears to be attempting to become Amy Winehouse.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

It's not great but it is a shining beacon of something or other compared to the other two in the poll.

BTW, am I right that the N-Dubz song new @ #40 is not previously polled?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Bugger - I thought we'd already done that one! Will tag it on to next week's.

4/4/10. Charts Officially Jump Shark.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Scouting For Noez walked a million miles while Poptimists were asleep? My resignation is on someone's desk. I expect yours will follow shortly.

END TIMES >:-(

New Boyz, as mentioned in text box above

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Dudes you have to listen to this. Utterly amazing:

And my top ten of the year so far:

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

1. Mariah ft Nicki Minaj - Up Out My Face
2. Joy Orbison - BRKLN CLLN
3. New Boyz ft Tyga - Cricketz
4. Lady Gaga ft Beyonce - Telephone
5. Adam Lambert - For Your Entertainment
6. Gabriella Cilmi - On A Mission
7. Gucci Mane - Lemonade
8. Pantha Du Prince - Behind The Stars
9. Gramophonedzie - Why Don't You
10. Alicia Keys - Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart (forgot about this when I was doing this list on my own LJ, it boots off Dog Days Are Over)

Best of March

[koganbot]

New to me and relatively new to the world:
Didi Benami "Play With Fire"
Ke$ha "Backstabber"
Dizzee & Flo "You Got The Dirtee Love"
Didi Benami "Rhiannon"
Ke$ha "Party At A Rich Dude's House"
Ke$ha "Boots & Boys"
B.o.B. ft. Bruno Mars "Nothin' On You"
Yo Gotti ft. Lil Wayne "Women Lie, Men Lie"

New to me but old to the world:
Françoiz Breut "Si Tu Disais"
Horkyze Slice "R'n'B Soul"
Pyongyang Hardcore Resistance "Corea - Resistance 3"
Selena Gomez & The Scene "Kiss & Tell"
Selena Gomez & The Scene "Tell Me Something I Don't Know"
Diggy Dex ft. Eva de Roovere "Slaap Lekker (Fantastig Toch)"
Wangjaesan Light Music Band "Singosan-taryeong"
The Raveonettes "Breaking Into Cars"
Svetlana Ražnatović a.k.a. Ceca "Nevaljala"
Magic System ft. Akil, Cheb Bilal And Big Ali "C Cho, Ca Brule"

[koganbot]

Scouting For Girls "This Ain't A Love Song": Is kinda tuneful in the chorus, which makes it better than any other Scouting For Girls song I've heard. Which raises this to the level of tired, dogged mainstream mediocrity that people like, I don't know, Sting or Rob Thomas could make sound passable, though you'd hope they'd add more interesting lyrics. NO TICK.

Plan B "She Said": Weird! A fellow with no voice somehow reinvents himself as a not-retro '60s singer on the border* between soul and garage rock - very sketchy at it, given his voice, but moving nonetheless, though I don't know how he does it. TICK.

*A non-sketchy analogue from the genuine '60s would be "No Good To Cry" from Connecticut homeboys the Wildweeds, though that's punchier and less Mayfieldy than "She Said" is.

Delirious? "History Makers": Not-even-adequate U2 Bono imitator immerses himself into watery broth made from vegetables that long since have had the flavor squeezed out. NO TICK.

As per my March answer

[credoimprobus]

Hovatron mixtape in question; quite brilliant
and here's that Cassie remix in isolation at dude's Soundcloud.

Failed horribly at new pop last month, really; was getting most of what new stuffs I got via 12inches and dubstepetc blogs (and even that was limited). That said, here's some other things I really enjoyed:

Ben Klock feat. Elif Bicer - Goodly Sin (Robert Hood Remix)
James Fox - Rebuildings
Starkey feat. Anneka - Stars (partly for the excellent & weird video, I admit, but mostly for the amazingness that comes in at 2:20) (footnote: Slugabed remix is also really, really lovely)

(And of course in the old stuff corner there's possibly my favourite thing discovered through the decade polls so far, heh)

[koganbot]

Oh, another new to me track that I forgot to list:

Taylor Swift doing a karaoke of Miranda Lambert's "Gunpowder And Lead." She's duetting with Mallary Hope, but it's Taylor who owns it, not surprisingly.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Crikey I have ticked Scouting For Girls I will hand in my badge.