rolling pop 2011

keeping it simple before any of the stupid ideas about this year's thread having a 'name' take off

first #1 of the year is "Grenade," ugh Bruno Mars train not showing any signs of slowing

lead single ""what the hell" from avril's forthcoming 4th album leaked today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfgztMZodaw

& the new britney single is dropping this month, rumoured to be on the 7th

i'm looking forward to the avril record, and that song's actually not too bad, but i feel like i need to hear a much higher quality version of it before i can have a strong opinion on it

Don't know what I expected from Avril, but after the divorce I had this idea of her coming back with angsty angry stuff that would sound just great. I guess this is a bit 'fuck you'-ish, but the track itself just sounds like a night on town. By the end I was engaged by its catchiness, however.

2nd listen: yup, pretty catchy

I'm like.. uber-excited for Kim Kardashian's album. I know, at this point I should be over 'socialite makes an album' bs, but still.. The-Dream and Kanye are involved in the production, I'm just imagining Kardashian-as-Appollonia or something, v. exciting.

But obviously most anticipated album of the year is Lady GaGa's BORN THIS WAY.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitpic/photos/full/218156300.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0ZRYP5X5F6FSMBCCSE82&Expires=1293909445&Signature=G6i16MZ7wR%2FaGDfmpvJMIppeWF0%3D

05.23.10.

i'd jump in front of a (bruno mars) train for ya (yeah yeah yeah)

tossed it in the trash, yes you did, etc. -- seriously these lyrics were secretly written by me @ age 12

i am looking forward to the new britney. it's a max martin/dr. luke track but they both had some very good output last year (amidst more middling stuff of course) and i imagine that a track they'd give to britney would be at least non-bad

heard Like a G6 three times last night, that track is everywhere right now.

i said this in the 2010 thread when "grenade" leaked but i really like it because it sounds to me like a total boy band song -- obv not nearly on the levels of the great max stuff that he did w/ bsb/nysnc but it's a pretty decent knock off w/ those backing vocals in the chorus & such -- i think the lyrics kinda add to that tbqh

avril & the chipmunks

Yeah, that Avril youtube has to be sped up about 5-10%.

"Grenade" reminds me uncannily of... something. Seriously, every time it comes on the radio, which is all the time now, I spend the entire duration trying to figure out what it sounds like an exact copy of. Current theory is Frank Wildhorn.

also I wish the real lyrics were "mad woman, bad woman, dangerous to know"

I liked Avril's live version of "What the Hell" on one of those New Year's Eve shows. The keyboard sound on it has a kind of 60s garage rock organ feel to it that I like.

Not sure if this qualifies (Is Róisín too out for pop? Does a producer leak override commercial release dates?), but Róisín Murphy's track with Mason, "Boadicea" (presumably scheduled for release with his They Are Among Us debut in March) isn't tracky at all and may be my favorite Róisín related thing since Ruby Blue.

I'm like.. uber-excited for Kim Kardashian's album. I know, at this point I should be over 'socialite makes an album' bs, but still.. The-Dream and Kanye are involved in the production, I'm just imagining Kardashian-as-Appollonia or something, v. exciting.

YES

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ciara was the one who convinced her to make music (which might be embarrasing if it outsells basic instinct), so she'll probably duet with her on the album too

here's kim singing the single "shake" in a club in crap quality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSes-CDegyI

I'm like.. uber-excited for Kim Kardashian's album. I know, at this point I should be over 'socialite makes an album' bs, but still.. The-Dream and Kanye are involved in the production, I'm just imagining Kardashian-as-Appollonia or something, v. exciting.

Though this would be less awesome and more funny but she should have roped in her sisters to do a Vanity 6/Apollonia 6 project. I can so totally see them in the lingerie with their signature blank stares on their faces.

lol that would be awesome

Avril song is catchy, organpiano is fun. However, her nasal sneer, somehow perfect for conveying contempt c. 2001, doesn't manage to pull off anything more than vaguely bratty here? The deep cuts on Let Go were really good at bored, disaffected teenager, and the second album tapped into proper pillow-throwing angst. This is just fluffy. Not that there's anything wrong with fluffy pop music, but if Lavigne can't even be petulant, then what's she bringing to the table, exactly?

oh dear this avril track is slightly sad. what on earth is her point in 2011?

she sounds so bored on it :/

i'm actually sort of looking fwd to the new britney in that i have no idea what to expect at all. did she continue to work with rusko et al for it, or was it back to max martin and dr luke?

Kim Kardashian is going to release an album, eh? Why am I reminded of the Paris Hilton fiasco aptly titled 'Paris'?

I'd be excited about Avril but her main sound isn't popular anymore. I sometimes feel like the Pop/Punk and Pop/Rock period of 2006-2009 went way too fast.

But obviously most anticipated album of the year is Lady GaGa's BORN THIS WAY.

I have to snicker at that album title. Born like what? Like a corporate shill that records innocent dance music? Honey, the clock is ticking and your novelty is wearing off!

valuable

^^

Honey, the clock is ticking and your novelty is wearing off!

In a time where it's almost impossible to be huge for any extended amount of time, Gaga feels like maybe the only new artist in the last 3 or 4 years to have gotten there. You don't like her, fine, but manufacturing some kind of flash-in-the-pan status for her indicates you have no idea about anything.

I really like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE47er6qnqg

And feel quite terrible for so doing. They're so obvs being pushed as the new Chase & Status (Pendulum Remix) that I can just tell there's something awful lurking here but the big smacking club-footed chonkiness of its big stupid riff is kind of making me fall in love with it. Also the bit in the video where the boychild reacts to discovering the machine has become unplugged...

Anyway, a lock for a big early-year chart position in the UK, I'd imagine.

hahah that song is like 2 mins of intro and 2.5 mins of outro.

i like it too.

i am definitely excited about "born this way". obv the title is referring to her inner freakdom, which is cheesy if marketable -- but i don't mind it.

still jam to "you and i"

the game in that video is just like streets of rage for like 10 seconds :)

demo for the new Britney single:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdKpWhVwIWY

so this is basically Take it Off v2.0?

Who's singing on that Britney demo? She sounds familiar.

popjustice says the production, stucture & vocal sound v. different on the real thing. so hopefully the real thing sounds nothing like ke$ha

The demo definitely sounds demo-ish. I don't really hear the Ke$ha similarities beyond the electroey elements. It's not bad but IMO it definitely needs a good-to-great production job to be decent.

If it's a Lauren Christy/Matrix song, she's probably singing it herself.

Oh, apparently it's this person:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TCep7Fm11Q

oh, bonnie mckee. she co-wrote teenage dream and california gurls iirc. the demo is ok.

"Heard an early demo of my new single leaked. If u think that's good, wait til you hear the real one Tuesday. -Brit"

^^^^

btw also i was watching keeping up with the kardashians and there she was

ciara

talking to kim kardashian about how the dream wanted to work wit her

okay i'm 100% in the "black & yellow" is a str8 banger camp

for some reason i thought the beat was kinda weak but it actually bangs

my opinions on pop/rap get fucked when i can't ride around listening to the radio all the time

I sometimes feel like the Pop/Punk and Pop/Rock period of 2006-2009 went way too fast.

probably compounded by missing the 2002-2005 era of same?

btw also i was watching keeping up with the kardashians and there she was

ciara

talking to kim kardashian about how the dream wanted to work wit her

cici's going to be on the kim kardash album, isn't she

*dies*

I honestly don't understand for the life of me why someone would be interested in a Kim Kardashian album.

that one calvin harris jam is a jam tho

calvin harris has never been within earshot of a jam

like, actual jams would unjam themselves around that man

the tove styrke sounds good. btw does anyone know how the hell you pronounce her surname? 'strike'?

Like this http://translate.google.com/#sv|en|styrke

So the new Timbaland/Pitbull single is really fun? Too much Timbo and not enough Pitbull tho.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhEPLCF-SHg

missed this; kewl vid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3Jv9fNPjgk

dunno if this has already been posted or not, but its seriously great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUDbSL-5GHQ

didnt think id ever use those words in relation to something drakes connected to either.

Thread for tracking all the covers/flips of Drake's "Marvin's Room"

"i ran into your homeboys / they’re all fucking idiots" makes the song imo

"when you're in her I know I'm in your head" is kind of O_o

'President Barack Obama has tapped pop star sensation Shakira to help push his education agenda and court Hispanics.

The Colombian-born singer, whose full name is Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, was appointed on Wednesday to serve on Mr. Obama’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics.'

(not a commission manned by celebs, btw)

new willow smith single, with nicki minaj:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cTpTS29LqQ

pretty good, not as much of a monster as "whip my hair" (what could be) but not as forgettable as whatever the follow-up was

YO I LOVE THIS

DON'T SLEEP

ain't nobody greater
will & jada is my neighbor, hater

^^good nicki minaj lines

Just saw that Lizzy Caplan is going to do a guest run on New Girl. Will be weird to see Zooey and the alt-better-Zooey in the same place at the same time.

fuck, wrong thread.

i love this new keke palmer song http://www.singersroom.com/music/Keke-Palmer/Show-Me/3537

trying to place what the melody reminds me of! but it has a lovely glide to it.

good enough for this thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idaoG74UKzg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk5kYjD9E1I

The guy from Mattafix has been at number one in Germany, Austria and Switzerland for the last six weeks, i think. He's playing Upstairs At The Garage on Tuesday so i guess he might be trying to build a buzz back home too.

heard "countdown" on radio yesterday for the first time, jammed

It's your boy Romeo (with Usher), gone solo (vastly improves once the bachata kicks in):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3XyWhrZnqE

(improves anyway)

Horrible intro skit.

you guys i think we need to talk about bai ling's incredibly odd pop single about getting out of rehab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhgYGiMMR9I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0PpP0ksmcI&fmt=18

boring video but amazing song. why this wasn't pushed more during the summer i'm not sure

Between her outfits in this video and the Give Me Everything nappy-thing she had for that, I'm convinced there's a stylist out there somewhere who really hates this woman.

omg that bai ling song

bow wow has a hit now

and t-pain REALLY has himself a hit now

oh yeah?

"5 o clock" is his first solo single inside the top 20 since summer of 08

fucking hell i heard a jessie j song (called "domino") on the radio today. are we seriously not done with her?? she sounds awful too, like it makes katy perry's vocal on "california gurls" sound like a virtuoso performance

yeah for some reason after her album flopped we're getting this annoying 2nd wave of promotion for her w/ "domino" and that godawful vma appearance

I prefer this guest-free Romeo Santos single from the new album (to the one I posted):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElU-VcWEhRU&ob=av2e

yeah for some reason after her album flopped we're getting this annoying 2nd wave of promotion for her w/ "domino" and that godawful vma appearance

don't worry if she ever breaks through and becomes ~culturally important~ j0rdan et al will suddenly come round to her

Just think of all the underground soulful r&b singers Jessie J is stealing audiences from.

don't act like you don't think people should be listening to teedra instead!

People who listen to Jessie j should be kept well away from teedra (though to be honest luxurious undergrind hasn't drawn me back much).

I've become really enamored with the googleproof New Look this week. Canadian synthpop duo with a debut lp out in Europe.

I don't think they're terribly chart friendly, but until someone starts a rolling indie electronica thread rolling pop will have to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydFcH5yvtWM

yo that's really good!

I guess this is the first "real" Ruby Goe single, after some demos and self-released stuff from earlier this year and last. She's so cute I can barely take it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqiUYJB2AUc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hz64-_2Gu8

^_______^

this is a banger for real

rolling pop 2012

Chet Faker - "No Diggity"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIfFA8-RaHQ

Australian beardo covers Blackstreet? It's not a travesty a la Karmin or whatever, but I'm trying to figure out what about this was necessary...

Nothing! But come on, that's pretty good! loosen up man!