"swagger jagger" has leaked, i'm sure you can find it if you want. it interpolates "oh my darling clementine" and sounds a bit fergie, a bit gwen stefani, a bit lil mama. i like it fine (albeit possibly not in my fever/migraine-addled state today) but the other tracks i've heard from her are much better (and less gimmicky).
anyway regardless she's probably going to rule the summer and end up as a terrific pop star. let's have a listen to "turn my swag on" again shall we:
― the smoke cloud of pure hatred (lex pretend), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 10:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sounds like someone's playing a stylophone in the background. It drags a bit in the middle. The chorus would probably be better in her baby-screwface-rapping voice.
― wtf is wrong with people? (snoball), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 10:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
i like
― uberweiss, Sunday, 31 July 2011 22:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
I was a big fan of Cher on X Factor so it's a huge relief her new single is actually quite brilliant.
The rap seems a bit pointless to the song but overall this is a million times better than Swagger Jagger.
― Kitchen Person, Saturday, 24 September 2011 10:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
"superhero" is one of my favourite songs of the year
― lex pretend, Saturday, 24 September 2011 10:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah I finally heard the full version of that too, I love it. Hopefully that will be the third single.
― Kitchen Person, Saturday, 24 September 2011 10:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
I love that in the hands of anyone else this could have been an insipid Bruno Mars type track but she grounds it in enough personality and charisma to make so much more than that.
― ha ha ha ha jack my swag (boxedjoy), Saturday, 24 September 2011 10:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
i quite like this. i've loved her since that first audition. and you're on the mark about it being 1,000,000 times than that other song. also: she should've done the rap, she's a good rapper!
― spellcheck is really advanced these days (cajunsunday), Saturday, 24 September 2011 13:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
not fond of either of the singles. um hello you have "playa boi" and "superhero" and "over the moon"!!
really wish "over the moon" had been the first single. would be such a great ENTRANCE.
NOW LET ME TURN MY SWAG ON AND STEP UP TO THE PLATE~
― uberweiss, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 23:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
there's something a bit perfect-winter-single about "over the moon" - "superhero" or "grow up" should've been the lead two, and certainly both should have been released in the summer
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 09:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
haven't heard "grow up" :(
bonus track "stay"!!!
slightly amazing
― uberweiss, Thursday, 20 October 2011 23:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
Looking forward to hearing the album now. I will always skip Swagger Jagger but the rest of it coould be great from what I've heard so far. Really hoping Superhero will be the next single.
I'm kind of surprised Turn my Swag on isn't on the album. I never understood why she didn't ever do it on the show again. Pretty sure if she'd done it on the semi finals that might have got just that little bit further.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 21 October 2011 18:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
lazy reggae remix kind of making "with ur love" amazing
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 13:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
this has leaked, and three tracks in it is making me SO HAPPY
― all i see is angels in my eyes (lex pretend), Friday, 4 November 2011 12:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
"so i sound like a helicopter? BRRR"
Anything on there as good as Superhero?
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 4 November 2011 17:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
yes! it's a remarkably fat-free, coherent affair - and SO much character in it, all her ad libs and vocal tics are so irresistible - it's like every time there's a ropy bit (and there are a few) she just rides roughshod over it and seizes your attention back.
i can't believe that even the "buffalo stance" song works: that should be such a no-no but it's actually amazing. maybe because it almost sounds like the x factor god performance that she never got to do in the live shows (well ok apart from "stay" and "no diggity").
um anyway yeah delete "swagger jagger" and everything else is basically kind of amazingly great.
― all i see is angels in my eyes (lex pretend), Friday, 4 November 2011 18:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah just played it through, really impressed. Of course I deleted Swagger Jagger straight away but I enjoyed every other song.
You're right about Playa Boi, it shouldn't work but totally does. Surprised how much I like Over The Moon, thought it kinda sounded annoying from the samples but it's great. Superhero is my favourite song by a long way but that's just because that's just a perfect song.
I think a couple of her other X Factor performances were pretty great too. Stay was the obvious highlight but I also loved Just Be Good To Me and Nothin' On You. Her ad libs on Nothin' On You were especially amazing.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 4 November 2011 20:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
this is so so so good. as in, i love every song
"want u back" makes me feel so happy
― uberweiss, Saturday, 5 November 2011 13:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
SO much character in it, all her ad libs and vocal tics are so irresistible
Lex I can't help but feel that if this came from some other Sound of 2011 or Popjustice type you'd be seething with hatred for it. Her vocal tics mostly sound like Lily Allen or Marina and the Diamonds fwiw.
I'm only as far as the Viva La Vida one and it mostly just feels like standard issue post-Xenomania kitchen sink pop to me? I admire its energy and enthusiasm but her on-record persona is SO ANNOYING half the time - can't help but wish for more chipmunk rapping really, it's by miles the best look on he
Haha I've just got to the one that attempts to fuse Christmassy jinglebell pop with brostep, not sure it quite works but all credit to them for giving it a go.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 5 November 2011 13:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
As you can see from that paragraph the Xmassy brostep one stopped me in my tracks.
The one after that, the grimey one with Ghetts, is by miles the best thing I've heard so far. There's an element of 'chuck everything in and see what sticks' here isn't there? But no other X-Factor star would put Ghetts on a song, in a million years.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 5 November 2011 13:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
The attempt to write a Rihanna ballad is straight in the 'doesn't come off' pile though.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 5 November 2011 13:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
Finished now, strange album, kind of feels like a composite of everything that's happened in pop in like four years - there's a big slice of Paper Planes in the middle of With Ur Love.
Maybe my knee jerked a bit hard in the first instance because the first two tracks and the first ballad are comfortably the worst things here*. Second half's a lot better.
*Except Swagger Jagger which I obviously deleted on sight.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 5 November 2011 13:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
her tics are way more nicki minaj than marina - face-pulling brattiness rather than middle-class affected quirk. allen, i'll give you that especially when cher's doing carefree, but there's no mockney, which was always allen's greatest sin. i'm not sure i hate lily allen any more, anyway.
anyway i mean amazing things like VROOM-VR-VR-VROOM in the middle of "play boi" (which is a missy move, if anything), the flirta d noise she makes throughout "want u back" etc
― all i see is angels in my eyes (lex pretend), Saturday, 5 November 2011 16:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
and the ballads are amazing fyi
― all i see is angels in my eyes (lex pretend), Saturday, 5 November 2011 16:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
call pharrell cuz you keep on frontin <3
― all i see is angels in my eyes (lex pretend), Saturday, 5 November 2011 16:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
you like my kicks? LET ME KICK Y'ALL
― all i see is angels in my eyes (lex pretend), Saturday, 5 November 2011 16:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
I can't stand the affectations on the first few songs. I'm amazed that a girl of Cher's background has managed to make herself sound like middle class faux-quirky mockney then. I blame the producers.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 5 November 2011 17:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
just started listening. grow up is killing me.
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Sunday, 6 November 2011 17:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's all a bit too clean for the girl who debuted with that totally raw turn my swag on, but it'll do for now.
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Sunday, 6 November 2011 17:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
listening to this now... feeling weird about it. "swagger jagger" totally rips off that synth from "hotel room service"
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 6 November 2011 22:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
Everything on this album is ripping something off, it's just a case of how blatant they're being about it.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 6 November 2011 22:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
saw that she has another #1
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 6 November 2011 22:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
With Ur Love would be the best Paper Planes rip ever if it weren't for Mike Posner's awful "first base second base" raps.
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Sunday, 6 November 2011 22:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh it's the dubstep song
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 6 November 2011 22:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
trying to figure out if in two weeks i'll find this album v charming & fun or just insufferably annoying
i think i like the cod-reggae remix of "with ur love" better than the paper planesy original. mike posner needs to be shot though, he has that same insufferably skeazy smear to his voice that drake does. i can't bear either of them.
― all i see is angels in my eyes (lex pretend), Monday, 7 November 2011 08:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
*punched in the face and then shot
omg people on the popjustice forum never having heard of "buffalo stance"
*shoots everyone*
― all i see is angels in my eyes (lex pretend), Monday, 7 November 2011 08:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
thank you for making that distinction
― J0rdan S., Monday, 7 November 2011 08:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
BOLSILLO LLENO DE SUEÑOS
i dig that
― cock chirea, Monday, 7 November 2011 09:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'm a machine: couple screws loose but i'm running smoothlyknow what i mean? got an upgrade, now i'm more unrulyi'm hard to swallow, but a spoonful of sugar might make me go down more easily-y-y-y-y-yyypick up the beat, put your money on mei'm not the queen, but i'm gonna be a princess on itlike premium gasoline my words gon catch on firespread through your body like hea-ea-ea-eat
― all i see is angels in my eyes (lex pretend), Monday, 7 November 2011 15:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
fyi this album sounds amazing accompanied by sunshine
so exuberant
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 09:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
WE'RE GONNA BE THE GENERATION THAT MAKES EVERYTHING EXPLODE
I'm still waiting for them to put to put Superhero out as a single. I still think it's the obvious hit and would be perfect for this sunny weather.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 13:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
GOTTA TEAR THE WORLD APART TIL THERE'S NOTHING LEFT
<3 <3 <3 <3
― lex pretend, Thursday, 4 October 2012 14:53 (7 months ago) Permalink
have no idea how the US version of the album fares vs. the UK version but i find it pretty delightful that Mike Posner's vocals have been excised from the song he was on
― jaz a make wardance (some dude), Thursday, 4 October 2012 15:04 (7 months ago) Permalink
i find that hilarious too (and so glad they did it, finally a version of that song i can listen to without flinching)
i think they took off "dub on the track" (on the basis that americans won't get grime?) and "over the moon" (oddly), replaced them with the three new tracks - "oath" (the single, pretty good), "behind the music" (forgettable on one listen) and "riot!" (AMAZING)
― lex pretend, Thursday, 4 October 2012 15:10 (7 months ago) Permalink
omg this news about the mike posner vocals is the best thing i've heard all day
― teledyldonix, Thursday, 4 October 2012 18:22 (7 months ago) Permalink
Yeah that was the only thing holding me back from expressing unabashed love for that song
I really like that and "Want U Back", what else is good on the album (hated "Swagger Jagger")
― monotony, Friday, 5 October 2012 00:07 (7 months ago) Permalink
Deluxe version of the album out here in the UK in November.
1. 'Grow Up' (feat. Busta Rhymes)2. 'Want U Back'3. 'Talkin' That'4. 'With Ur Love' (feat. Mike Posner)5. 'Swagger Jagger'6. 'Beautiful People' (feat. Carolina Liar)7. 'Oath' (feat. Becky G)8. 'Playa Boi'9. 'Superhero'10. 'Love Me for Me'11. 'Over the Moon'12. 'Dub on the Track' (feat. Mic Righteous, Dot Rotten + Ghetts)13. 'End Up Here'14. 'Behind the Music'15. 'RIOT!'16. 'Stay'17. 'With Ur Love' (Solo Version)18. 'Dub on the Track' (Solo Version)19. 'Want U Back' (feat. Astro)20. 'Want U Back' (feat. Snoop Dogg)21. 'Swagger Jagger' (Hygrade Radio Mix)
I'm not a big fan of Oath which is the next single in the US, hopefully that isn't the next single here. I still have a small amount of hope they go with Superhero, not putting that out as a single so far has been a terrible decision.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 5 October 2012 23:30 (7 months ago) Permalink