rolling US charts 2008/talk about "pop" here

I think Janet's new single "Luv" will do fairly well

ok cool about "falsetto" and "independent"

I'm the only one around here who likes "Apologize", am't I?

I don't hate it

"independent" is rad

this should be charting higher, imo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu9KBjAflK8

otm

i think flo rida is my least favorite popular rapper of the past 3-4 years. maybe chingy. i'll stop listening to music if i ever like a flo rida song bcuz of flo rida. his new single w/ timbaland is passable but his verses are the worst thing in the milky way right now

this is it: http://videos.onsmash.com/v/5QwLJwTL35aDzyW6

i mean has there been a more generic looking rapper in the history of the game? he's like what an snl parody of 50 cent would've looked like in 2004 right down to the motherfucking wife beater

i thought dude was gonna be nice bcuz ppl were talking about that he had song w/ rick ross like it was some real underground/overlooked smash like how people talk about like dg yola or fam lay but he is the worst of all bad pop-rap shit. dude is really the fucking colbie callait of rap.

that he had song w/ rick ross that song he had w/ rick ross

u mad

"Ghetto Techno" = +++

u mad

otm

i like the chingy/ amerie joint

yeah like i don't think i've ever minded a chingy single really (actively like "right thurr" and kinda feelin his new one w/ luda) but he's almost inexcusably vapid imo

"One Call Away" 4eva.

joint with Amerie is good but almost too slick for Chingy, like if Zac Efron did a romantic comedy without corny song interludes.

damn Jordan, I wouldn't say Flo Rida is above criticism, but it's weird when someone who gives a pass to Plies turns around and goes THE LINE MUST BE DRAWN HERE about two inches over.

Plies aounds enough like T.I. that I'm cool with him.

yeah it's not like i won't ride for mediocre rappers (or at least songs by mediocre rappers) but flo rida popularity baffles me. i mean obv i know it's bcuz he has a decent song w/ t-pain on the hook (hello plies) but still i'm surprisde more people aren't calling flo rida out for being a chucklehead. i guess ppl don't care?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjnFdeuW7sY

Have we talked about "Rock With U"? Oh shit oh shit oh holy shit this is awesome.

Janet, u r forgiven.

Q - who was the last French artist to have any kind of hit in the US before Yael Naim? I'm struggling to think of anyone...

j0rdan's pretty otm, plies is way more defensible

Q - who was the last French artist to have any kind of hit in the US before Yael Naim? I'm struggling to think of anyone...

Best I can come up with: Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg's "Je T'Aime ... Mon Non Plus" reached #58 in 1970. Claudine Longet had five songs in the Hot 100 between 1966-68, though none reached higher than #30. Edith Piaf's "Milord" hit #88 in 1961.

I'd have thought that there'd have been a new-wave band from France, but I guess they were all British and German. And Technotronic was Belgian.

Don't forget Daft Punk. Both "Around the World" and "One More Time" reached #61 on the Hot 100. Although, I'm not sure those really qualify as hits. I'm actually surprised they got that high.

Wait, really? I didn't even look them up because I assumed they wouldn't have placed at all. Wow.

dude "Around The World" was pretty big

That was during my dark period, admittedly.

Yeah, it really was, but to me it seemed like it was something I would've expect to be number one on the Club chart but maybe not on the Billboard 100.

Okay, whenever I heard the "it's too late to apologize" line I immediately want to sing "and I can't beeeeee without you babe".

haha woah that is a little uncanny.

hahaha wooooahaha

Don't forget Daft Punk. Both "Around the World" and "One More Time" reached #61 on the Hot 100. Although, I'm not sure those really qualify as hits. I'm actually surprised they got that high.

-- matt2, Wednesday, February 20, 2008 10:00 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

...and "Music Sounds Better With You" reached #62. Daft Punk be placin' in the low 60s.

warning track power

Crazy. I seriously thought for a long time that "Music Sounds Better With You" was like blog-house or something; I didn't hear it until 2004 (probably via an ILX poll) and had no idea it was from the '90s, much less a semi-popular song.

Wow, I really can't believe that about "Music Sound Better With You." I don't ever recall seeing that anywhere on MTV or even late night radio mix shows (the only place you really heard dance music in NC). I mean I saw the video to "Around the World" many times and would hear it around occasionally, but never "Music Sound Better With You." This reminds me that I had "Around the World" on a Virgin label sampler record store cassette freebie thing. On of my roomie's hated it, but two of us loved it so it saw many rewinds. As a college student, I collected those free in store cassette/cd things like crazy. Okay, I'll stop now.

Yeah I never heard it until well after the fact, either.

you guys are weird as fuck!!!

the song got played the hell out from the time it dropped for like the next three years

Rev isnt weird he's just young
but the rest of you ...!

xp Well, let's be honest, Rodney was like 5 years old at the time, and I was only listening to records on Matador and Thrill Jockey.

this felt kind of ubiquitous at parties i was going to tho

I was about 12 at the time, and that didn't stop me from hearing "Around the World" when it came out.

Deej, I have always had a feeling that your parties have been v. different from mine. Most of the parties I went to in college involved putting on Moby's Play at midnight and Pinkerton at 2 AM.

oof Moby!! i mean they played the strokes at every indie kid party i went to my fresh. year but msbwy still seemed pretty ubiquitous

i couldn't imagine hearing one more time or around the world on the radio but i assumed they were both pretty ubiquitous

i heard "one more time" quite frequently..."around the world" not so much

werent you like 7 years old when 'around the world' came out

Recently I heard "One More Time" followed by "I Believe I Can Fly" on the radio. That was pretty wtf.

yes, but i grew up watching MTV.