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

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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Unusually spot on poll results.

man that adele song, like at a certain point you can't really front, that is a pop hit for sure. i hear it all the time and i pretty much can't criticize it, catchy as hell

the correct winner!

and the four 0-votes are the four irredeemably awful songs on the list. haven't heard "lighters" yet tho.

I really can't tolerate the way Adele sings at all.

"Rolling In The Deep" is pretty great and still huge in the summer but kinda silly to be on this list in the first place, it's been out since like November

people fronting on "Give Me Everything" itt

i really love "give me everything"

hear that song 5 times a day and i'm still not really sick of it!

the secret best part of that song is pitbull's post-chorus chorus (?)

WE MIGHT! NOT! GET! TOMORROW!

btw i might possibly be in miami next week to talk to pitbull

the secret best part of that song is pitbull's post-chorus chorus (?)

― gucci mande (J0rdan S.), Thursday, July 7, 2011 10:21 AM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark

there are basically four parts to the chorus that total 24 bars -- and Pit's verses are only like 12 bars! the song is practically all chorus

i still have no idea who nyer is or what her role in the song is

she's the female voice who sings on 1/4th of the chorus -- afaict she's just some random hot video chick that pitbull gave a part on the song

i still don't understand why all these dance producers like afrojack, guetta, benny benassi etc. get a 'featuring' credit just for doing the beat -- y'all might do that in europe but here in america timbaland has to get in front of the mic and mumble a couple times to get billing on the track

it's a post-khaled world

just another symptom of America's descent into socialism IMO

the funny thing about "give everything to me" is that pitbull shout out ne-yo & nyer on the intro, so clearly afrojack labeled for a credit afterward?

pitbull also says "kodak" twice in one sentence on the intro, so i don't think it was very carefully considered

lol that is true

i wonder if kodak is experiencing a cristal-esque sales bump, i should've bought some stock

like (cherry) chapstick in 08

God, "Where Them Girls At" may have, by a long shot, the worst Nicki verse ever.

Peebee!
Peebee!
Who is Peabo Bryson?
Two years ago I renewed my license.
Anyway why'd I start my verse like that?
You could suck a dick or you could suck on a ballsack
No, no,
I don't endorse that.
Pause that,
abort tha.
Just the other day mi go London, saw dat, kids ina the street
Paparazzi, all dat

not to mention the lazy, obnoxious "DAY DA DAY DAY DAY DAY" babbling. Barf. Sorry, I guess I could have put this on one of the Nicki threads. This poll actually has a decent number of enduring summer jams, mixed in with stuff I heard way too many times at my last restaurant job and would pay money to never hear again e.g. "Lighters," "Rolling In The Deep," "Super Bass," and "TGIF."

Still dig "Party Rock Anthem" though.

haha you didn't even mention that the verse ends with BECKY BECKY BECKY

anyway, KP & pitbull are pretty much the only two of these that i'll bump in the car -- maybe "i'm on one" begrudgingly

idk

― dirty deathdrone boys (J0rdan S.), Saturday, July 2, 2011 12:29 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

feeling nostalgic for a time when j0rdan would only bump "i'm on one" begrudgingly

ha, I totally missed that Guetta/Nicki/Flo Rida. what a shitshow.

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