A New Decade In Pop: Week #40

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Tinie Tempah gets his second #1, Status Quo celebrate 25 years of one of their songs with a charity re-release, and the Wombats have been reading too much Stephanie Meyer. Oh and Frankie is the most memorable Saturday!

[Poll #1627487]

Remember you can go back and retick (or untick!) any of the songs in this year's chart polls. Just click on 'Poll #12345' then 'Fill Out Poll' to change your vote.

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[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The Labrinth song is AWFUL. Soppy mush that I wouldn't feed to the Lighthouse Family for breakfast.

[koganbot]

New to me and sorta new to the world:
Colette Carr "Back It Up
Far East Movement ft. The Cataracs and Dev "Like A G6"
Chely Wright "That Train"
Alejandra Guzmán "¿Por Qué No Estás Aquí?"
The Ting Tings "Hands"
Willow Smith "Whip My Hair"
Marion Raven "Flesh And Bone"
Hurts "Evelyn"
Chely Wright "Snow Globe"
YG "Toot It And Boot It"
Martin Ramey "Twisted"
3OH!3 "Double Vision"
Luke Bryan "Someone Else Calling You Baby"
Gretchen Wilson "I Got Your Country Right Here"
Los Lobos "Burn It Down"
Dierks Bentley "Draw Me A Map"

New to me but not to the world:
Juan Luis Guerra Y 440 "El Costo De La Vida"
Banda Blanca "Sopa De Caracol"
Aventura "Obesesion"
JoJo "Keep Forgetting (To Forget About You)"

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[koganbot]

Er, Aventura "Obesesion" = Aventura "Obsesion"

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[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Aventura are really good. There's a song of theirs from a few years ago called Hermanita (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teAXp57wwxw) that I really love.

[koganbot]

Ha, I only ticked what other people didn't, and I'd have ticked the Status Quo too despite its potential encouragement of militarism except I decided to count it as a re-entry even though it's at least partially re-recorded.

Tinie Tempah ft. Eric Turner "Written On The Stars": "Wile Out" is one of my songs of the year, but this one mutes the obsessiveness of that one, and Eric Turner's chorus is just more high-dimpled emptiness. NO TICK.

Labrinth "Let The Sun Shine": Let the goop shine. NO TICK.

Kylie Minogue "Get Outta My Way": I don't know. I think this is supposed to float and sparkle, but it just feels like thin upon thin. NO TICK.

The Wombats "Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves)": This adheres to the dictum that rock lyrics should reach for meaning without actually meaning anything, but beneath the irritating mixture of strain and complaint, this can't hide its shimmering club keyboards, actual good tune, and the semi-dance from the drumtaps. TICK.

L27 "This Little Light": Is this a re-entry? Well, I wouldn't tick it anyway, not 'cause it's platitudinously religious (well, not only 'cause it's platitudinously religious), but 'cause it makes its notion of goodness seem utterly weak and watery. NO TICK.

Danny Byrd ft. I-Kay "Ill Behaviour": You dudes in the know'll have to tell me what species of drum 'n' candy this is, but it's a pisser and has me smiling and swaying instantly. TICK.

KT Tunstall "(Still A) Weirdo": Well, she predates the current wave of quirk, and she can make her voice smooth and hard simultaneously, but this is an irritating bit of rhythmic flightiness and she can't hold onto it. NO TICK.

[credoimprobus]

Before I get on with the September best: holy shit I just youtubed the Tinie Tempah and it's actually on the radio here! (First of his singles to have made it over here, which...pretty much figures, doesn't it.)


Anyway, my rough top not-quite-5 of September, complete with mini-essays (in which it's obvious I've been spending the last month catching up on pop for a change haha):

-In case I wasn't in fact the last person on the internet to hear Skydiver to whose interests Cassie is relevant: dear god go on NOW. It's an understated masterpiece nearly (but not quite) on a par with Me & U; near cert for my eventual top 5 of the year (or at the very least top 10).

-Get Outta My Way: Kylie's best single since the Fever era, if you're asking me! It does have two flaws: 1) it needs WAY fatter bass, dammit, and 2) the line "I don't recognise the zombie you've turned into" keeps making me want to make Highly Inappropriate Macros. XD;; (but uh that can hardly be held against the song.)

-Selena Gomez & the Scene: A Year Without Rain -- it's very, very early/mid-noughties chart dance, which I'm still in full-on nostalgic fondness mode over from the decade polls; and I developed a HUGE crush on Selena's voice when I was caning Kiss & Tell at the end of August. Put those two elements together and you pretty much CAN'T LOSE.

(SGomez footnote: also v worth checking out is album track Spotlight: brilliant 2007-throwback club track. Moments of autotune abuse aside, that chorus is something else. (Footnote to footnote: reminds me very of Ashley Tisdale's Headstrong, for various reasons.))

-Courtesy of Poptimist Favourite The-Dream: Brilliant Moments While Listening to Florida University
* going into it half expecting some tale of a saucy co-ed (wellimean, title like that), and getting hit with the first "this is short for Florida University"; HOMFG
* "then again, guess which finger I'm holding up on my hand" :D :D
* figuring out where that "I know you're not gonna sing that song" was familiar from, and going "ADSALFAHGXAGLKH OSHIT"
* "that's one hell of a clean version" :D :D
* the essay that will never be written about why Lily Allen's superficially similar effort last year was an abomination that gave me rageouts, whereas this track makes the world a BETTER AND BRIGHTER PLACE