A New Decade In Pop: Week #34

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Roll Deep are straight in at #1 with a song that seems to have been around for ages.

[Poll #1610475]

Results of the Rihanna Canon!
1. Umbrella (ft Jay-Z)
2. Pon De Replay
3. Don't Stop The Music
=4. SOS
=4. Disturbia
6. Rude Boy
7. Shut Up And Drive
8. Russian Roulette
9. Take A Bow
=10. Unfaithful
=10. Run This Town (w/ Jay-Z)
=10. Te Amo

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

One Night Only have a terrible name and the song is indie-by-numbers but their video features Hermione off of Harry Potter and is kind of GREBT:

[pippaalice.livejournal.com]

doesn't she go out with an indie boy, is it the indie boy from this band?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Ooo maybe. According to wikipedia she met the singer at a Burberry fashion shoot...

[pippaalice.livejournal.com]

Oh dear...

She looks really cute in this.

I know the boy she is going out with thinks he is TOO COOL for Harry Potter. Thereby making himself not very cool at all.

[koganbot]

The way I read this video is: a couple of lookers flirt and parry, then a couple of dogs show up, and I'm like, huh?

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I have come around on the Chase and Status and no longer think it sounds so much like it's trying to be Pendulum. There better be more juddering on the rest of the singles though.

[koganbot]

Roll Deep "Green Light": Pretty dancepop stormer with obligatory rap sections is what this sounds like, regardless of who gets top billing. BORDERLINE TICK.

Chase & Status ft. Mali "Let You Go": Emotionally engrossing electro-soul that morphs midverse into dark metal. I should probably check out some of those Metropolis Records promo emails I keep deleting from my Inbox to see if there's an equivalent among the people who do this stuff for real, or if this is just an excellent left-field oddity. TICK.

Inna "Amazing": Goes mildly "eerie" and "Spanish" where I was expecting a kick or a dance peak, ends up mid-tempo functional, which isn't nearly enough. NO TICK.

One Night Only "Say You Don't Want It": Indie band makes tepid gesture in the direction of '80s emotions that were mainly hand-waving in the first place, then swell the sound up into something slightly less tepid and actually half catchy. In the video, a couple of lookers flirt and parry, then there are a couple of dogs. BORDERLINE TICK.

[genie22.livejournal.com]

Scratchy from Roll Deep would be hot if he cut his hair.