A New Decade In Pop: Week #28

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The charts are alive with the sound of JLS! They knock Katy and Snoop off the top.

[Poll #1591694]
*I assume the Marco Calliari version from last week's poll was some mad remix or something?

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

JLS: they are the daft punk de nos jours!

[koganbot]

JLS "The Club Is Alive": The melody, Autotune, atmospherics all bleed into the group's blankness to such an extent that their voices are one with the atmosphere, delivering unexpected goosebumps. TICK.

Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP "We No Speak Americano": Behind the hicky novelty gag is a great dance obsessiveness, a breakdown into a skipping, stuttering, stomping beat that's perpetually lying in wait, ready to stomp you through the floor. TICK.

3OH!3 ft Ke$ha "My First Kiss": Man, what happened? 3OH!3 were alive and scary and ugly and offensive and awesome for a grand total of one song. The rest has been pale walk-ons and this is no exception, even with 3OH!3 topping the bill. Ke$ha's few lines are no big thing, but they make the rest of this feel like stale gumdrops in comparison. NO TICK.

Eliza Doolittle "Pack Up": Old r&b used as painted backdrop that's as hokey as a handlebar mustache; Eliza goes "tweet" but her feathers are too leaden to be ruffled. NO TICK.

Kelis "4th of July": Kelis finds an ache that she'd been too tough for in years past. She doesn't have the capacity to lose herself in the ache, but the bass whirrs and keyb sadness give the melancholy a vast prairie and a big sky to drift through. TICK.

Lee Ryan "I Am Who I Am": I love a song called "I Am Me," but that's a desperate nail-to-the-skin face-ripping; this is just a dead brick left in a cold oven. NO TICK.

Drake "Find Your Love": The "hey hey hey" is delivered with the gravity of a coffin, forces a tick out of me despite the indifferent plod of the rest of this. BORDERLINE TICK.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Still finding Eliza v. endearing. The hokiness is part of the charm IMO.

[koganbot]

Maybe I just need a right context for it.

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

The marco calliari version was an opportunistic cash-in released because the yolanda b cool version was getting lots of radio play on radio 1 but wasn't planned to be available to download til next week; after the cash-in charted they brought the release forward

Whoot/whoomp there it is

[koganbot]

This is like the glorious days of early rock 'n' roll when different cover versions of the same song would be rushed-released to different locales, each trying to be the one that gets to be the national hit, sometimes with the original losing out, for better or worse.