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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[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