2011 In Pop: JANUARY

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Good afternoon poptimists! Who fancies a mega-poll of all January's new entries?

[Poll #1671901]

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I know technically next Monday will also be in January but a) this is four weeks' worth b) by the time I get round to posting the poll it will be February anyway. My poll, my rules!

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Owing to how great Last Train To Paris is, it's been essentially all I've listened to for the last three weeks. I had a brief burst of the recent Scissor Sisters, too. Must listen to some actual new things.

Is the Britney single properly out then or is this just dodgy cover versions?

[pippaalice.livejournal.com]

I hate Eliza Doolittle. This is all

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I've ticked H.A.M not because it is any good at all but because thanks to Kanye & co I have finally worked out what HAM stands for (because they say it afterwards). Now Pill's 'Trap Going Ham' makes more sense. Though actually that means I like 'Trap Going Ham' slightly less. *unticks Kanye out of spite*

Random thoughts

[koganbot]

Was disappointed that Aggro didn't give us his contact information again, since I found that endearing last time. Also surprised that Kimberley didn't lift her leg, but I suppose she's now housebroken. Anyhow, the track knows it's bubblegum and goes for it, gets over the borderline, but could have used more aggro and more candy.

I have a love-hate relationship with "Hold It Against Me." This doesn't surprise you. I'll love and hate at greater length on my own lj.

Have a like/dislike relationship with "Hello"; think there's tune and talent, wish Solveig/Dragonette wouldn't get all messed-up in their mannerisms. But maybe the mannerisms are the psychological condition for their tunes and talents.

Am I the only one who was disappointed that the "Grenade" video wasn't more illustrative? (Perhaps this explains why so far I'm the only one to tick the song.) Did like the video, however; definite influence of Un Chien Andalou, what with priests and piano schlepping and the like, though I note the absence of a razor blade.



The Glee "Telephone" has an overrated Filipina bawler and a lot of clamor but's the clamor what gets it across.

Think Taio is finally pulling it together, actual good, coagulated prettiness rather than a mess of dynamite (which I also liked, but this is a keeper).

January

[koganbot]

January new to me and relatively new to the world:
Britney Spears "Hold It Against Me"
Secret "No. 1 (Inst.)"
Jeremih "Holding On"
LPG "찔레꽃" (Google translate calls this "Jjilrekkot," which doesn't get me much farther)
Dal★shabet "매력덩어리" (which is "Hottie" according to Google translate)
Teen Top "Supa Luv"

January new to me but not very new to the world:
Busy Signal "How Yuh Bad So"
Missy Elliott ft. Eminem "Busa Rhyme"
Shinehead "Billie Jean"
4minute "I My Me Mine"
Crookers ft. Róisín Murphy "Royal T"
Gatekeeper "Forgotten"
Ciara "What He Wants For Dinner"

And this is what was killing me in December

[koganbot]

December was very crowded, but this is what got me most excited:

December new to me and relatively new to the world:
Jeremih ft. 50 Cent "Down On Me"
GD&TOP "High High"
Girl's Day "Nothing Lasts Forever"
Miss A "Breathe"
Pitbull ft. T-Pain "Hey Baby (Drop It To The Floor)"
Diddy - Dirty Money ft. Skylar Grey "Coming Home"
Reba McEntire "If I Were A Boy"
GD&TOP "Knock Out"
Diddy - Dirty Money ft. Biggie Smalls & Rick Ross "Angels"

December new to me but not very new to the world:
Roach Gigz "Pop Off"
Girl Unit "Wut"
The-Dream "Abyss"
The-Dream "Panties To The Sea"
IU "MIA" aka "Missing Child"
Daddy Yankee "La Señal"

And admit it, aren't these guys really cute?


(note that they shout out to the track's producer at 2:40, guy who lives in Philadelphia)



Whereas these gals are tough:



And see them here, too, if you're not convinced:



Or the regular old real video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTnwjlDhAY4

[mcarratala.livejournal.com]

I'd heard none of these before today because my TV is bust. On first hearing, the Britney is disappointing, the Adele – which I'd heard good things about – is every bit as blaring as everything else sees ever done and I'm now just pretending Glee doesn't exist. But the Avril song sounds like a fifteen year old Japanese girl attempting the Belly back catalogue, and that's a good thing (even if surely Avril herself must be too old for her shtick by now – she's the same age Jagger was 1969, for instance).

Best not-strictly-new things in January

[credoimprobus]

Seriously, if I'd heard this in December, it would have made my top 5:



AMAZING. (audio-only rather than the clean-version video, because really, the swears are essential.)

I am also now OFFICIALLY CONVINCED BY KE$HA -- I have Many Words on Cannibal-the-song that I should really commit to bytes (because I come at my connection to it from an angle I don't think I've seen anywhere else, and it's one I think deserves representation), and We R Who We R is 1 X PROPER ANTHEM.