Rolling Teenpop 2007 Thread

Skye's officially been dropped from Capitol. Tim Armstrong confirmed it on a radio show talking about the "Into Action" single. Apparently she "gave it to him" because it had nowhere else to go. So, one more time...

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She's still looking for a new band (via email submission/MySpace promotion!), so maybe she'll tour the songs independently or find a new label. Still, it sucks.

This from a reliable source: Skye has not been dropped!
I think when Skye hears what Tim has said on KROQ, she's going to make him drop and give her fifty. lol

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1. Chivas
2. Never Again
3. One Minute
4. Hole
5. Sober
6. Don’t Waste Your Time
7. Judas
8. Haunted
9. Be Still
10. Maybe
11. How I Feel
12. Yeah
13. Can I Have A Kiss
14. Irvine

Please note similarities to Ashlee Simpson's most recent tour set design and photos in the I Am Me liners.

handy dress style for kelly there! (this is old news but i've only just seen recent pictures of her and she's obv awesome always & forever but we're heading towards beth ditto territory at the same time.) (sorry, mean. kelly i love your single.)

not as much as i love THE POTENTIAL BREAKUP SONG though! kind of obsessed with it right now. the lyrics! the situation laid out just like that, no bullshit, three minutes, and then the slight note of hope at the end...

Indeed, it is a potential make-up song as well.

Vocoders = Brilliant!

Underwhelmed by the Jordan Pruitt album, which I finally listened to. I feel like with a little more humor she'd be like a Hoku with better chops, with a little more chops she'd be like Jojo, as is it's this sort of halfway point between spiked acoustic guitar R&B pop and c. 2000 bubblegum teenpop. Not bad, just not really sticking with me (probably needs more bubblegum). Need to give it a few more listens, though.

Listened to the Sophie Ellis Bextor album and feel like someone just jackhammered my head with hooks. Dunno if that's a good thing or not.

Ha, Lex, knew you'd like it!

Also, Rhianna's 'Shut Up and Drive' now around - a) I love it, b) it seems to have a very 'British' pop sound to it, like I wouldn't be surprised if Xenomania were involved. I could well imagine Girls Aloud releasing something along similar lines. Also, friends and I were discussing how aparently Beyonce turned down SOS, and I said how she would have brought too much 'heat' too it, whereas Rhianna's voice is more metallic, maybe the American version of Rachel Stevens?

"Shut Up and Drive" to appear in new Ford commercial starting in 3, 2...

Oh, and new Cassie track on her MySpace...I'm a pretty big fan of this one...really nice and subtle.

(sorry if someone already posted this...ctrl f didn't help)

Hey, this new Corbin Bleu song is really good! Deal with It, now at something like #5 on Radio Disney. (scott seward called him new new jack swing on the other thread, seconded.)

He and Natasha should have a crazy slippery dance-off.

(Nah, Natasha'd kick his ass)

"Potential Break Up Song" reminds me a lot of Xenomania in their (relatively) more earnest pose e.g. "No Good Advice" or "The Show". I think it's great.

Also loving Ashley Tisdale's "Be Good To Me" heaps and heaps. I get the impression the album is pretty good too? I think I just love the single because it reminds me of stuff like Mis-Teeq's "Scandalous"... heavy-slashing string riffs are almost never a bad idea.

'the potential breakup song' really reminds me of something...not xenomania exactly. can't quite put my finger on it yet. dream's 'he loves me not'...i dunno.

abby have you been subjected to my rants on the subject of "british" pop? i feel lately it's been something of a pox on the world...i like 'sos' in a 7/10, would dance to it way, but actually morally disapprove of it in some ways. it's rihanna's worst single by some way! faintly depressing that 'shut up and drive' heads down the same path after the triumph of ELLA ELLA ELLA AY AY AY.

i do agree beyonce might not have been so good on it - there's a simplicity, a naivete to it which i don't think beyonce's ever pulled off. all she has is a brolly!

Tisdale's album is still my favorite of the year. I absolutely love it. Be Good is my favorite track on it, but it was a tough decision.

Hilarious review of "Be Good To Me" by M.H. Lo over in Jukebox.

And I just posted my review of Tisdale's "Not Like That" on my MySpace blog (basically repeats what I said upthread).

New Cassie track a b/w silkscreen of early '90s Eurohouse with langorous Cassie r&b on top. May take me a while to find out whether I'll feel it.

I've not yet succeeded in hating Corbin Bleu, though I'm not necessarily ready to abandon my efforts.

(Yeah, reasonably good track, even if I'd have preferred a much better singer. But I could say the same about the Tisdales, which I'm generally loving.)

I tried not to like him after his last one, but there was one dance move in this video (that may have been sped up or otherwise faked) that they spotlight so blatantly that I couldn't ignore it...like he's standing there and then...hey look, DANCE MOVE. And I had to admit that it was a pretty cool dance move. I don't know what a "better singer" for this kind of music would mean...although I do sort of wish there were like five of him, since alone he's like the fourth member of a decent knock-off boyband.

Y'know, like that guy in Boyz II who always gets the shittiest individual subplot in the video.