A New Decade In Pop: Week #40

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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!

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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.

Comments

[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.