mtv.com's "contenders for 2011's song of the summer"

^^real heads know the deal

it doesn't have anything to do with the band lush

btw can we tempban everyone who votes for Jason Derülo

this is one of those times when you not understanding the entire human endeavor of humor is a problem (xpost)

HAHA BTW THAT DERULO SONG IS #1 IN THE UK LOL AT ALL BRITS THAT HAVE TO DEAL WITH THAT

they think it's pretty lush i guess

did we mock you when "et" was billboard no 1

yes, yes you did

also I know I am alone on this board but I like "E.T."; there is absolutely nothing of value about "Don't Wanna Go Home" except maybe the fact that it ends

of course you like "ET," it sounds like Garbage (combined with actual garbage)

ET is one of my favorite songs of the year

::JAWS DROP::

of course you like "ET," it sounds like Garbage (combined with actual garbage)

ow hard belly lol

voted for katy, but nicki is a close second. i love the britney video, too – but the song, i think, is a little overprocessed.

that whole Britney song/video is even more thousand yard stare than her shit usually is, i can barely even tell what it's going for

i know, i mean it's fine but it just sounds like everything else

surm and j0rdan, at what point did you cave and start thinking of katy perry as an acceptable pop star?

for me it started with ET, and then the first time i saw "last friday night" the deal was sealed

she had some interesting things to say in the rolling stone article

that whole Britney song/video is even more thousand yard stare than her shit usually is, i can barely even tell what it's going for

that's what i think is kind of fascinating about it. i can't tell what it's going for. it's the kind of inscrutable waltz i only like when i'm dancing to it.

for me it started with ET, and then the first time i saw "last friday night" the deal was sealed

oh ok i kind of misphrased my qn, i meant what happened to the things you used to think were annoying about her - like i don't think she's changed at all really, what is it that makes her palatable now?

well - i loved "i kissed a girl" from the beginning. for me it's about the music, the image doesn't play such a huge factor. and bc i liked ET so much, i guess i was willing to be more open to her in general - and somehow, looking back, california gurls and teenage dream finally clicked for me, whereas they hadn't before. like i've had a few moments when i remember jordan talking about those songs, and now i get it. i dunno, i guess it was just a timing thing.

altho the TGIF imagery def plays a huge factor.

imo noone in their right mind has a rooting interest in katy perry but you have to pretty stubborn to hate all her singles if you have any kind of fondness for state of the art dr. luke chart bullshit -- for me about half her hits work and half don't

I feel more like 3/4ths of her singles don't work. I hated all of the singles on the first album except for wishing Pink did "Waking Up in Vegas" instead, begrudgingly came to like "California Gurls" after repeated exposure, loved "Teenage Dream", hated "Firework", hated "E.T." more than anything else", and now really love "Last Friday Night".

stray quotation mark in there sry

it"s okay

yeah generally imagining how much better her shit would be w/ Pink or someone else more capable singing it is part and parcel of this cruel bargain of accepting KP

i would not want Pink to sing Katy Perry's songs, i don't really like Pink.

okay that's kind of crazy, Pink is leagues better than Katy

that's our surm though

i generally like Katy Perry's voice - her combination of strong alto and atmospheric falsetto works for me.

i think a lot of people that i know IRL would not say they prefer Pink over KP -- i don't think it's such an obvious choice.

in your world of deaf people

:) yea it's just me and my inner circle of deaf people who appreciate katy perry's voice

i kind of feel KP's songs always pussy out of being quite as good or striking as they could be - "last friday night" is so lazily written, it's a list of dated clichés with a sprinkling of (lol also dated) "epic fail" phrases to make it more au courant - it sounds like dr luke wrote it 5 years ago and only just dug it out of some drawer.

and KP does not have the presence to make it transcend its clichés (usually this is where pop becomes great) because she tries to have her cake and eat it so much w/r/t her persona that it ends up way too nebulous to seize on to - like i hate ke$ha but she at least goes hard at what she does, you know exactly what she's about at all times. and in terms of performance KP's blaring, grating yawp is such that it actively drags down her better tunes, rather than selling them.

still think her best song by far is "california gurls" - "last friday night" is just forgettable and the video is gross. "et" is slightly better but the KP-does-björk styling of the video is tremendously embarrassing.

"atmospheric falsetto" really??? KP's voice makes me flinch.

i'm not a fan of pink either but at least she was good a decade ago ;_;

i get that it doesn't work for you, but last friday night is supposed to be dated and lazy. it's an 80s hangover song.

and tbh any "Kesha does it better" argument is an automatic epic fail in my book.

u know how much i hate ke$ha!

god i hope so

lol

I like a lot of Ke$ha's stuff too

Yeah I don't have much rooting interest in KP... sometimes I think she comes off as fun, other times annoying and try hard. Cali gurls and then teenage dream were the points I first really liked anything by her (I dug waking up in vegas but I could write it off as one good single out of four). Mostly I agree/disagree with her as the singles come and go. Hated hated et, love tgif. The way it goes etc

i accept Ke$ha and Katy as equally terrible with the caveat that KP does the kind of material i find far more tolerable

Btw I heard party rock anthem today and... it's pretty great? I don't even hate the lame lunch on a rick ross single. Actually really dig the crookers/frankenhouse vibe too it and im usually not into it at all

I guess it makes sense that lmfao would strike gold and come up with a unique & identifiable eurohouse single amongst a slop of eurohouse singles

Lol lame lunch

Lame pun...

haha I thought that was slang analogous to "bite"

loll

LMFAO is on some Das Racist 'clever' shit except instead of arch rap nerd meta it's just NO LED IN OUR ZEPPELIN!!!!!!

used to be when Berry Gordy's offspring wanted a little pop notoriety they'd call in a favor from Michael Jackson for a hook, now we just get a douchey Mad TV version of the Black Eyed Peas

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