A New Decade In Pop: Week #15

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Scouting For Girls are still at number 1. Oh well! Elsewhere N-Dubz get included in this poll after my shameful oversight last week, and a certain part of the internet manages to get Half Man Half Biscuit to #56. Well done there!

[Poll #1550179]
Pop World Cup: Still time to go and vote for Slovenia! in the last round of the group stages. South Africa, Netherlands, Spain, Ghana, New Zealand and France are through - who will join them? (Seriously though, restore some Balkan pride and vote for Umek!)

Gnashville: And there's still some Decade In Country action going on in Heat #2. Go and have a listen, otherwise Taylor Swift will CRY.

Comments

[askbask.livejournal.com]

I like Paramore. I don't love them and I can't connect emotionally, but I think they're so good at their CRAFT that when all the pieces come together, which they probably will do as a part of them growing up, I'll come to love them.

I think "The Only Exception" is without a shadow of a doubt the weakest track on their newest album. They've got another ballad called Misguided Ghosts - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnGYZC7_ReU - which has a stronger melody.

The best hook belongs to "Looking Up"; but the blunt autobiographical lyrics about the band's internal struggles are unfit for a single release, unfortunately. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksis7ebyTlA
I get really into a select few lines on the album. Here: "God knows the world doesn't need another band, oh oh oh oh, but what a waste it would've been". Caught between raw sincerity and the calculated coolness of bratty young rockers. A teary group hug and, then, joking it away to relieve the awkwardness.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

This probably deserves a post of itself - I think a lot of poptimists only really know 'Misery Business' because of that video where she cuts the other girl's hair off (well not *her*, but you know what I mean). Perhaps... a POLL?

Use somebody

[koganbot]

I like Paramore's cover of Kings Of Leon's "Use Somebody."

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

You know what - I've listened again and I've decided 'The Only Exception' is worth a tick. I will do a post on this tomorrow!