A New Decade In Pop: Week #29

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BOB's Airplanes are at number 1 after JLS plummet down to #12.

[Poll #1594025]

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Professor Green ft. Lily Allen "Just Be Good To Green": The S.O.S. Band's "Just Be Good To Me" has remained in my memory as something beautiful, though streaming it now I credit the Jam-Lewis melody more than Mary Davis's singing, which is just kinda there, doesn't reach out much. Lily's singing here, on the other hand, is a total reach-out, simultaneously pushing us away and inviting us in, in that way of hers, which I find emotive and tough and desperate and vastly poignant. Professor Green knocks her around, which makes sense but I still want to hear more of Lily and the song. TICK.

Mark Ronson & The Business International "Bang Bang Bang": This is like party favors and colored streamers as remembered from a years-old party, and the distance works for it, plaintive melodies dancing with one another in a way that's more sad than fun, but that's something. TICK.

M.I.A. "XXXO": Garbage trucks play bumper cars with dumpsters, while M.I.A.'s voice wafts around looking for itself sweetly. TICK.

Jason DeRülo "What If": DeRülo and Rotem can sure write those melodies, but I'm getting nothing from his voice, ever. Wanted to go four for four on the tickies today, but the tune here isn't enough to carry this along. [Cue to Jeff and Moggy to come in and disagree with me.] NO TICK.