A New Decade In Pop: Week #25

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Dizzee and James Corden move up a spot to number 1.

[Poll #1581341]

*Missed out from last week's poll.

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Tenderoni has a great chorus (definitely 'any good at all') but I wish Kele would stop mumbling on the verse. Or replace the verse with random vuvuzuela noise: NNNNNNRZZZZRRRRRRRRNNNNNNNNNNNGHHRRRRRNZZZNRRR

[koganbot]

Example "Kickstarts": Dripping little blips, immediately gripping, but then Example's singing is a drip and a drag, and his rapping is just a routine, being the sincere boy. Waste of the blips. NO TICK.

Kylie Minogue "All The Lovers": OK, it's not like you go to Kylie for belt-it-out ballistics, but I don't comprehend the whispering deadness of this. NO TICK.

Robyn "Dancing On My Own": The beats come to oppress and torment Robyn. She faces them gamely, but the contest is in doubt. BORDERLINE TICK.

Kelly Rowland ft. David Guetta "Commander": Written by Rico Love, who gave Keri energy and got Cassie to turn the lights off, this song is a cry and a storm from a normally smooth singer, producer David Guetta kicking it through the ceiling but not quite over the top. TICK.

Glee Cast "Over The Rainbow": Laid back, with a ukulele, a pleasant surprise (though not unprecedented), it makes me smile, though I'm not likely to return to it. BORDERLINE NONTICK.

Kele "Tenderoni": Strange, the plexiglas beats from "Wearing My Rolex" turned inside out and given a campy aural fuckaround foreground. Not major or anything, but kind of a gas. BORDERLINE TICK.

Glee Cast "Any Way You Want It"/"Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin'": I'd say back to karaoke mediocrity, except the Glee crew are having gusts and blasts and oodles more fun than Journey does on its stolid original. Damned if I'm not going to tick this. BORDERLINE TICK.

Terry Venables "If I Can Dream": The old man can't sing very well, can he? Is this for charity? NO TICK.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Terry (a reasonably successful ex-England manager) has been singing If I Can Dream in a jingoistic advert for a tabloid newspaper - class under football madness.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

I think this might be my favourite singles haul of the year so far. 'Kickstarts' sounds like a sure-fire #1 to me, 'All The Lovers' is brilliant, Kylie back to her very best, 'Dancing On My Own' (while not the strongest song on Robyn's new album) is still a very creditable effort, and 'Tenderoni' is bleepy fun.

[askbask.livejournal.com]

All The Lovers and Dancing On My Own are quite similar: Pretty sounds and no surprises. I like All the Lovers a little more, maybe just for the melody or Kylie's voice. Robyn sounds a little strained.

I still can't get myself to check out Glee tracks.

[koganbot]

Here's a good place to start (Lea Michele in full squeak mode):