Rolling Teenpop 2007 Thread

FYI- The Gemz have returned as a quartet. I eagerly anticipate the album covers.

There's a documentary on Channel 4 (UK) tonight about the girls in Prussian Blue. >:-0

Fortunately my TV is broken at the moment.

Apparently, this is out on Sept. 22nd and it's rumoured to have leaked, pop fans.

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My Persephone's Bees mini-review in Harp last year:

http://harpmagazine.com/reviews/cd_reviews/detail.cfm?article_id=4649

Junk e-mail just in:

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What are 'BFFs' and 'frienemies'?

The rumors of Kylie's leak have not been greatly exaggerated. Sounds great. (Can't imagine these tracks are actually finished yet, though?)

So, "Hey There Delilah" jumps to number one on the Hot 100, a song I hate but at least it's a different type of song than your typical number one. The first emo song to hit number one? Depends if "Girlfriend" counts or not. Anyways, I thought this tidbit from BB.com was interesting/relevant: ""Delilah" is also Hollywood Records' first-ever No. 1 on the Hot 100." So congrats to the Diz.

Elsewhere, "Potential Break Up Song" leaps to number 23 on the charts, fairly impressive. Frank (or anybody else), is it getting any airplay? Their album only debuts at #15 though (thanks in part to my purchase!), a bit disappointing to me given that Hannah Montana is still at #3. KC is holding at #5.

GO ELLIOTT YAMIN!

So basically these guys listened to "Reno Dakota" by Magnetic Fields and decided they could do it in a really sucky version and get it to #1? (I'd never heard this song til now; it's terrible.)

Did you happen to notice that FeFe Dobson co-wrote the song Start All Over on the Meet Miley Cyrus CD? Yes… it’s true!

Final track on Mostly Wanted, limited supply and copies are already flying off the shelves.

I'm curious to see if the Kylie leaks actually make up the majority of the album. I have a feeling that they're B-sides, and were leaked as a tease.

Of course, they're still awesome. It is Kylie, after all.

Hey, dabug. I found contact info. Want me to email it, IM it... whatever it to you?

Sure, you can email it to the address above, thanks!

Matt, "I Know," which is a demo I've had for at least a year or so, is on there...and the last few tracks in particular sound really strange/demo-like/unfinished. The first few sound like they could be on a real-life Kylie alb but I imagine the actual released album will have some major changes.

Do you get that? Let me repeat that. I want my stuff back.

LOVE that line.

So basically these guys listened to "Reno Dakota" by Magnetic Fields and decided they could do it in a really sucky version and get it to #1? (I'd never heard this song til now; it's terrible.)

Uh? "Hey There Delilah" sounds nothing like "Reno Dakota" except that both are acoustic.

Anyway, that stuff should be posted to the 2007 Rolling US Charts thread so I don't have to read about whoever the hell Persephone's Bees are.

Woooops, I was thinking of "Come Back from San Fransisco" cuz I got to the part with "pretty/New York City." And then I turned it off about twelve seconds after that. Apologies.

Francisco. Jeez...oh, and Persephone's Bees actually belong on 2007 Rolling US Charts (well, 2006) more than the teenpop thread, but Nice Day remains a great song no matter where you put it.

Delilah vs. San Fran

In fact, it's kind of an answer song, because he's 1,000 miles away and she's in NYC. But I think she should dump him, he's probably an asshole. (Actually, the distance puts him somewhere in the midwest or something, Iowa maybe.)

jaymc I'll crosspost to Rolling US Charts, but I posted it here cuz it's all relevant to teenpop too.

Didn't Hey There, Delilah come out a year or two ago as a single? Why is it hitting the charts now?

Wait. Yeah. Probably three years ago. Because I remember playing it on my wife and my radio show at College... and we were barely dating back then. (I thought it was romantic and would make her want to date me. She just had a thing for Chicago bands.)

Whew. I'm like, 2 weeks behind everyone else, but I finally finished my best of midyear list. (Not that anyone cares but...) Normal precautions apply: Not in any particular order, subject to change, and subject to me having forgotten something that belongs on the list. Also, I don't really care about listing round numbers. I just listed until I ran out of things I liked. (Also! The albums list is probably more unusual for this thread than the singles list AND no Dragonettes :( but that's because they haven't released any of the songs I really like as singles yet.)

Singles

1. Rihanna - Umbrella
2. R. Kelly - I'm a Flirt
3. Taylor Swift - Tears on My Guitar
4. Lil Mama - Lip Gloss
5. Mark Ronson - Stop Me
6. Aly + AJ - Potential Breakup Song
7. Kelly Clarkson - Never Again
8. Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend
9. Fallout Boy - This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race
10. Tim Armstrong - Into Action
11. Cute is What We Aim For - The Curse of Curves
12. The National - Fake Empire
13. The Used - The Bird and the Worm

Albums

1. Taylor Swift - Self Titled
2. Fallout Boy - Infinity on High
3. The Noisettes - What's the Time, Mr. Wolf?
4. Neil Young - Live At Massey Hall
5. Against Me! - New Wave
6. Paula Cole - Courage
7. A-Trak - Dirty South Dance
8. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
9. The Stooges - The Weirdness

Oh! Singles, #14: Iron and Wine - Boy with a Coin

WARNING: Get those ear plugs ready cos the musical criminal is working on a second album….

Lock up your dogs, reinforce those windows and hide any valuable china because Paris Hilton has revealed she is recording a second album.

The starlet- who was recently released from prison- has revealed: "I'm already working on my new record I've been in meetings with Scott (Storch) and we've been working on it."

After her self-titled debut (and weak single Stars Are Blind bombed it was assumed the hotel heiress would give up her audio assault on the world.

But no! Paris is now set for a second try and is teaming up with Storch who’s behind hits for Beyonce, 50 Cent and Christina Aguilera. Maybe she'll find inpiration from her time behind bars.

"She takes voice lessons several times a week," an insider told E! Online "She's really serious about her music career."

Oh god, poor us!

YAY

You know what? Thank god. Because this week I got this incredible read on Paris Hilton doing music with Storch and I thought: "I hope she does another album so I can WRITE that bitch up." And now! Woo!

A lot of people ask me.. stupid fuckin questions
A lot of people think that.. what I say on record
or what I talk about on a record, that I actually do(n't do) in real life
Or if I say that, I wanna (sing), that..
I'm (not) actually gonna do it (cuz of Autotune)
or that I [don't] believe in (working)
Well, shit... if you believe that
then I'm (dancing with) you (anyway])
You know why?
Cuz I'm a (musical)

CRIMINAL
CRIMINAL
You god damn right
I'm a CRIMINAL
Yeah, I'm a CRIMINAL

My words are like a dagger with a jagged edge
That'll stab you in the head
whether you're a (mag) or (Perez)
Or (MTV), (the pap) or (Reynolds-in-a-)vest
Pants or dress - (like bags)? The answer's "yes"

I don't get it. :(

Imagine Paree over this. I can hear it!

Except her first LP sent her directly to jail.

Whatta day!

Jul 18, 2007
Skye's Back on the Attack

I'm so pleased to announce that my brand spankin' new CD "SOUND SOLDIER" will be released in Canada this year! It's been a long time coming but I'm sure you will agree it will be well worth the wait! So all you Skye Soldiers get ready to shift into high gear!
You may also notice the cool new look of this site! If your looking for current pictures, videos, blogs and more, make sure you visit myspace.com/skyesweetnam

Rock on!
oxox Skye

The Girls Aloud single is good!

of course it is, it's a girls aloud single.

PARIS IS BACK, BITCHES!!!!

New Skye track streamed at her MySpace, "Bring It Back" (right now it's buried underneat the other tracks). I heard this from her live Sea World performance about a year or so ago, sounds good but not quite as hard as I was expecting. Don't know if this is a final version (but I doubt it).

Filed cryptically as "Capitol Wreckage/05-Present EMI" no idea what that means. Suggests that it's probably not on the album, though.

Reminds me, though, that Skye is probably the best teenpop vocalist going not in the Kelly C. chops style. It's like she sings with a pink scalpel (as opposed to an opulent battering ram).

Meanwhile it seems that Paris' image is in popular demand, with Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee telling TV Guide magazine that he is planning to turn her into a cartoon superhero.

Paris is reportedly working with him on a new cartoon series for MTV.

Does the Skye/Armstrong single remind anyone else of Elvis Costello?

A couple million teens have probably bought this album by now, I'm sure, so I'm reposting this from the metal thread:

And yeah, I mentioned Nickelback. Somehow a copy of All The Right Reasons mysteriously fell into my lap this week -- an album which I believe has sold something like 5.9 million copies so far and is at something like #12 on Billboard's album chart after something like 93 weeks, and which an Internet search suggests has spawned something like seven hit singles (or "airplay tracks", or whatever -- "Photograph," "Animal," "Far Away," "Savin' Me," "If Everyone Cared," "Rockstar," "Side Of a Bullet" -- only a couple if which I remotely recognized, but then again I almost never listen to the radio these days, and even if I did I seriously doubt I'd ever brave putting on a commercial "active rock" station.) Anyway, out of curiosity and/or professional responsibilty, I decided to play the darn thing, having never consciously listened to Nickelback before in my life. And my verdict is: I don't totally hate it. Just most of it. Favorite cut is undoubtedly "Photograph," the power ballad, which is no Def Leppard but which is still about yearning for the small town arcade and high school the singer (whose old self would hate him now) says he never graduated from and wonders if they'd let him back in; really, a country-rock guy like Jack Ingram (who redid Hinder's "Lips Of An Angel" and made me like it) should cover this in a less plodding way, and it might sound really good. I also don't hate "Animals," which is probably the least plodding song on the album (actually kind of speedy), and also turns out to be about, uh, getting a blowjob while driving a car fast ("Got your head between your knees/Got both hands on the wheel," jeesh). And "Next Contestant," which I'm kind of surprised isn't a "hit" since it's pretty catchy in a Stabbing Westward bubblegum-Nine Inch Nails way, has the singer daring guys to hit on his girlfriend again so he can beat them up, what an asshole. "Rockstar," a very vaguely Southern rock midetempo, actually tries to have a sense of humor about wanting to be a rock star (with, you know, drug dealers on speed dail, getting washed up singers to write all the songs, staying skinny because you never eat) but of course Chad Kroeger moans it with no sense of humor at all -- maybe I'd like it okay if Joe Walsh sang it. (He could even get the Shop Boys to back him up, maybe). And "Someone That You're With" is clearly about being jealous of the guy she's with, duh. Honestly, in total, the topics of the songs are pretty easy to figure out most of the time, which does count for something. But most of the rest is the expected constipated bleh -- "loud mush," as Chris Cook once called Pearl Jam, but in a fifth or sixth generation version. (I was surprised to note on AMG that Nickelback have a bunch of albums, too -- Shows how much I've paid attention to them over the years; for all I knew, this could've been their debut record. As is, though, it almost counts as a Greatest Hits.)

Oh yeah, also listened to the album by the trio of 12-year-olds (and Rock Camp for Girls graduates, I believe) Care Bears On Fire. A couple songs ("Five Minute Boyfriend," "Met You On Myspace" -- he called himself unicorn and his head has a horn!) seemed kinda cute, and the singer gives energy to post-punk indie's trusty old little girl voice which she justifies by actually being a little girl, and the guitar buzz is okay, but I couldn't handle the rhythm section long, so I didn't get through the thing:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=107710852

Found that one on the free table at work; picked up a copy of the Jump In! soundtrack, too, but I haven't gotten around to playing it yet. Also, the second Girl Authority album (which at 19 songs looks way too intimidating) has been sitting waiting patiently on my shelf to be listened to for four or five months now; hopefully some day, I'll try it.

xp Actually, her head is between Chad's knees, not her own.

Godawful HSM2 single jumps up to #6 in its first week. Aly and AJ crack the top 20, Plain White T's will not go away.

The Giggle Club??? I mean, are they even TRYING? (Also, parents need to start having talks with their children about the subtle differences between pop star names and porn names.)

Mandy Rain = PRNSTR name

Mandy Raynes = possible pop star name (someone should do a PSA about this)

Noticed "Bet On It" by Troy Bolton in the RD top 30 this week, apparently a new HSM2 single. Anybody heard it?

Marion Raven's giving away a free MP3 once every week for eight weeks as some sorta promotional thang for ArtistDirect, you can get 'em here, first track is "Here I Am."

(For those who have the album, this is a live version.)