rolling pop thread 2015

ew Meghan Trainor wrote it though

The Fifth Harmony record is uneven, but it's got a couple great tracks on it. Namely Reflection and We Know. The Mariah-sampling track is a valiant effort, but I don't think I like it.

xp you shouldn't have told me! now i can't like it :X

3 songs co-written by meghan trainor, the rest reminds me yours truly

Not really seeing the Yours Truly comparison aside from Everlasting Love and Sugar Mama. Both of those are pretty good too. I think I like the Mariah Carey song.

Reflection is the best song on the album. The reveal of "i'm talking to my own reflection" made me smile. And it's the only RnBass-influenced song on the record that is halfway decent.

Already enjoyed BO$$ and Them Girls Be Like.

Daniel Johns, late of Silverchair (!), gets all sultry on ur earholes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opTvK5fpbSI

omg omg omg

(basically i am engineered to like this)

My initial impression was "oh, he bought some Timberlake and Usher cds" but then I realized it's more a direct line towards Frank Ocean. imo at least. I like it whatever his inspiration was.

johns also co-wrote this and two other total jams from the last kimbra record

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

"But Fifth Harmony is also taking things one step further: the back half of Reflection is basically a misandrist constitution"
lol, misandry

http://www.billboard.com/articles/review/6458265/fifth-harmony-reflection-track-by-track-review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7MQDULNIdU

I curse you, maura.

xp misterjoshua not in aesthetic level, but ideas...

I think you meant to put this is in the "Worst of 2015" thread, maura.

i don't think it's that bad

https://soundcloud.com/candolove/tori-kelly-nobody-love

can't stop smiling. a bit like "problem" (also produced by max martin) but 1000x more joyous. the final chorus i'm in tears

i just discovered this french duo called paradis and their 3-track EP called couleurs primaires, and it's exactly the kind of dance-pop i love: mellow, sensual, good for balmy late summer nights. also sweetsexysmooth french male vocals! their most well-known track is called hémisphére from two years ago, which i guess was something of a hit on majestic casual (lol)

here's the two main singles, "garde le pour toi:"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWhR0RMcdfw

and my favorite between the two, "sur une chanson en français:"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCmnx-e928k

The Susanne Sundfør album is apparently up on Spotify US / UK. Not here though.

If 2015 brings ten songs better than Baby Love and Tove Styrke's Ego i will be surprised and delighted.

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

i like that one

Yeah, "Ego" is fantastic. I dubbed it Shambhala a few weeks ago, but it's probably legit pop tbh.

The second Paradis track could almost be something off Royksopp's first album. I like it. Good voice too! Something rare these days.

Ok the Sundfør album is out for everyone http://open.spotify.com/album/4Mewe6A62ZpJKmVzcaOixy

Or, the good that can come from someone with the ambition and guts to do ludicrous, theatrical pop, really go for it vocally too, and the songwriting chops to write the catchiest choruses of the season.

Still digesting it - there's a lot going on! Harpsichord, church organ, and the 10 min track veers into Hans Zimmer territory for a bit. "Accelerate" is incredible.

New Sofi de la Torre track went up today on her soundcloud. It's luscious.

https://soundcloud.com/sofidelatorre/sofi-de-la-torre-what-people-do

#POPDONERIGHT

(is what it says)

it is pretty good tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T82OEZmCr1o

been coming back to this one semi-often over the past week, at first wasn't sure whether i liked its vaguely uplifting teenpopish lyrics but now i love it, it hits very comfortable territory and is super hooky

this is probably going to reach "fuck you" levels of ubiquity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IrQHeDcMi8

i don't think i can get with that
not really even able to get through a single listen

More Norwegian pop:

Maya Vik & Lindstrøm - Y.M.D. (Young Michael Douglas)
https://soundcloud.com/oslo/maya-vik-ymd-young-michael-douglas-prod-by-lindstrom

Chris Lie - Armour (prod. Basmo Fam)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_7907Ff7gM&spfreload=10

Funkin Matt & Chris Lie - My Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPMVz3nGzw8&spfreload=10

that maya vik song is really great - kind of like real life is no cool taking a step from trippy disco into full-on bubblegum. i don't know anything about her except that she worked with dawn richard last year (the song itself was...nice but not memorable) which means dawn richard and lindstrøm are now one degree of separation away from each other

also about to x-post this to the lindstrøm thread obv

Tuomas nominated a Maya Vik song in last year's eoy poll and it was phenom. At that point, I fell in love with her first album Château Faux-Coupe from 2011. Very much looking forward to hearing album #2 (presumably this year).

Maya Vik also put out a mixtape with some new songs and highlights from Château Faux-Coupe in 2013:

http://www.datpiff.com/Maya-Vik-On-It-kapow-Mixtape.475379.html

between the Say Lou Lou single and this, I'm really missing pop Lindstrom being a proper thing.

There's also this: https://soundcloud.com/feedelity/lindstrom-and-grace-hall-home-tonight-extended-version

that lunchmoney lewis song is playing in the gym right now

it begins, basically

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGLx4zzMdRA

that lunchmoney lewis song. FUCKING NOPE. nicki what have you done.

goddamn goddamn goddamn goddamn...is already stuck in my head and I only listened to it once three days ago.

Ok the Sundfør album is out for everyone http://open.spotify.com/album/4Mewe6A62ZpJKmVzcaOixy

Or, the good that can come from someone with the ambition and guts to do ludicrous, theatrical pop, really go for it vocally too, and the songwriting chops to write the catchiest choruses of the season.

― abcfsk, Monday, February 16, 2015 12:48 PM [

This is bloody great isn't it. So many brilliant songs and really good sequencing too - love the way 'Accelerate' segues into 'Fade Away'

ten love songs is ridiculously good

Lunchmoney Lewis top 10 in Australia this week. #1 in American by early May I reckon.

America* lol

really digging ten love songs too, absolutely glorious

THIS IS THE KIND OF LOVE THAT NEVER GOES OUUUT OF STYYYYYYYYYYLE
'CAUSE BABY I KNOW THAT I'LL ALWAYS BE WAITING
AND YOU'LL ALWAYS WANT TO COME BAAAAAAACK

I'm happy people are digging Susanne's album, perhaps her best, although some earlier singles are unbeatable.

You had to be here to understand how instantly ubiquitous her music became when she debuted in 2007, with the most airplay of any artist that year. Of course that album was very different, more of a straightforward singer songwriter production with several v radio friendly tunes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2be2KcBWIXE

kinda feel like someone should mention hotline bling in this thread
i'm pretty sure i don't like it but it's interesting to me that drake is doing bruno mars and that's likely gonna make for his most marketable self.

no idea where bruno mars figures into this

hotline bling sounds to me like mars would be a more honest delivery system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfyc2YHj3zM

new tkay maidza track is catchy.

M.O.B.?

M.O.B. is ok, but I like this one a lot better:
https://soundcloud.com/tkaymaidza/ghost

Just found out about Dua Lipa cause she's in the BBC Sound Of 2016 longlist. I dig this. A lot!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rey3m8SWQI

As we move into December, I'd like to drop a quick note to encourage any readers / lurkers / ilxors to post their favorite as-yet-unmentioned pop tracks from this year to the thread so that I can hoover them into the ongoing spotify playlist. Last chance for any accessible stragglers that may not already be in the lexicon.

Not sure if it's been posted in this thread but loving this track off the new Little Mix album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujbW5m9NITM

Pet Shop Boys at MAMA with f(x)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py334YG7aag

Addictive goodness from Holland:

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

Ronnie Flex ft. Mr Polska "Niemand"

I'm really happy about Zara Larsson's success in the UK and Europe and Australia but now I hope Lush Life becomes as big or a bigger hit than the one with MNEK.

I'm wrapping this playlist for the year. It has been updated with a few new adds (Tkay Maidza, Ronya, Kiiara, Flor) and includes every track mentioned on thread that is available via Spotify's US catalogue as of EOY 2015. If I missed something or if a track comes available sometime in the future, bump here to let me know and I'll add.

Rolling Pop 2015 Thread Spotify Playlist

Is there a 2016 thread or are we just keeping this one going?

I'm really happy about Zara Larsson's success in the UK and Europe and Australia but now I hope Lush Life becomes as big or a bigger hit than the one with MNEK.

On track to do so here, and given that the song scans to me like a new and improved version of "Lean On" I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up smashing everywhere. Threw it onto the end of my ILX ballot, it's been my early summer bop

weirdly also the snakehips x tinashe x chance the rapper track is at #3 in the charts here; not exactly a peak moment for any of them but very happy to see them getting some coin / spotify streams

Rolling Pop 2016

uptempo vocal house pop track released in the autumn of 2015, riyl: Kiesza, Duke Dumont

Blinkie - Don't Give Up (On Love)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u0EYOQDPag

spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/5LUC0ft6qKTAZLWYC1qVWi

Video shot in Barcelona
http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/10/27/blinkie-dont-give-love-ozzie-pullin