rolling uk urban pop thread

"katy on a mission" is awes btw, gonna put rtc hate down to intercine uk stuff i don't understand

i thought u were inglis

youtube.com/watch?v=l8C4HL2LyWU

even if i was i'm not sure i'd get uk funky, post-not-dubstep, & urban pop positions if any there be

the owl is lol

there's a poster for this single at the end of my road. i am rendered slightly speechless

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyazBLBx52g

i mean what. is this...a thing now?

"spend money like an oligarch"

apart from that white dress i'm pretty confident there is nothing of worth in that vid

importnt update btw: the owl is still lol

the only time i'd seen this yasmin's name before was as the featured vocalist on devlin's latest single (unless it's the same yasmin as on low deep's "inside out"), so i kind of assumed her own solo debut would be your same ol' same ol' electrothump as everything else, but...it's not! it's really good! the beat...where is that whistle from? i'm as surprised that the beat's by shy fx tbh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsNBQJEofQM&ob=av2el

i'll crosspost lady chann's latest - amazing early 90s rave shit - here as well as the dancehall thread, may as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35eqWuPKa8g

Someone get Farah on The X Factor:

http://www.youtube.com/user/FarahOfficial#p/a/u/0/ey1GXYEypjI

new mz bratt is actually really good!

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

thumbs up to the video too.

New Yasmin

Love the Mz Bratt.

What do we know about Cherri V? I'm liking this one a lot, bit of a Wants For Dinner vibe going on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Y8EY9TYbc

LOL:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHgkci3srpg&feature=related

Is that what I think it is? I'd been waiting for something like that to happen.

I have to assume it is.

Wait, if you think an exploitative cover, then no. It's kind of an answer record.

Hah, I had guessed at an exploitative cover.

In truth a cover by a dude would be kind of disturbing as well as sad-for-Farah.

This is kinda sick:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YelL9baa6YA&feature=relmfu

LOL:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIsDhcu7HIo

haha a uk urban pop stage mum highly recommended that one to me this week

perhaps it's sheeran and not maverick sabre who's the new frankenposterboy after all

I actively resent Chaka Khan being reappropriated in the name of such goth nonsense. Was actually looking at my watch waiting for the dnb break to come crashing in half way through but unbelievably it was not to be.

Really don't know what to make of sheeran.

Matt your post is OTM except you should have said "errant goth nonsense."

What does r|t|c do that leads to him receiving recommendations from rolling uk urban stage mums?

This is Sheeran's new single which is also pretty funny but in a different way:

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

Can someone explain this guy to me, he's like a frankenlol voltron comprising Daniel Bedingfield, Mike Skinner, Plan B and Kano it seems?

ed sheeran is the worst thing but so many people seem to rate him.

what do we think of ms dynamite's big comeback single?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfrZ5k6bwC4

i've had it for a while and every time i play it i enjoy it, but it never quite clicks into addictiveness like i feel it should, like "bad gyal" and "wile out" and "get low" did

yeah same here, think i rather tend to lose the thread of the song after a while

uncharacteristically uninspired di genius remix of that as well iirc

cleo sol, of a few perempay & dee cuts fame - i really love this, just a really nice relaxed reggae skank

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPr6YY7kDaI

would've gone in my summer jams piece had i heard it in time

Really like that Dynamite track - feel that there's resistance and texture there but it never loses its prettiness.

Love this thread! Great work everyone

Not keen on that Dynamite single at all - it falls victim to the twin modern malaises of trying to please everyone at the same time and of slowing an MCs flow to a few chants and removing everything that makes them special in the first place.

wretch #1 eh!

much like with 'traktor' i've been so spoiled on the garage mix the original just sounds bizarre

interesting hit song tho all the same

rizzle kicks @ 8 is funny as well

there must be so many failed dudes across the board from like 5 years ago thinking wtf generally these days

the original "traktor" was a perfectly enjoyable post-"pass out" thing, the original "don't go" is dreadful. i have no idea why wretch 32 is at no 1.

Is it a Cocteau Twins sample in the background of the Wretch(ed) thing? I've just listened to it for the first time, was surprised when it finished because I expecting it to actually go somewhere.

not sure it really warrants the vitriol, i think it's kinda cute? if turgidly so

certainly better than the ploddingly obv 'heaven'

oh josh whatsisname's awful bluntian voice though, like we needed a cut-price ed sheeran

as i've said elsewhere i didn't think much of "heaven" until bang one day it clicked, but i'd take sandé singing pretty much anything over ever hearing the "don't go" guy again

These new battlelines reaffirm my belief in an essential order to the world.

Now what was it I was listening to the other day that sounded like a sped up version of "Heaven".

http://soundcloud.com/truetiger/ed-sheeran-you-need-me-i-dont

yaaaay

"Ed asked us to remix his second single with Dot Rotten & Scrufizzer"

lol just came here to post the Sheeran, since i was amused to see it on a Flava rundown just now, it being like an arctic monkeys side-project. maybe more rhythmically more kinetic than you'd expect for that, and obv informed by rap/r&b self-referentialty, but still

more more more howdyalikeithowdyalikeit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u87_y3E61ro

SOMEHOW... this is still kinda cute

have u guys heard this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAN779kN718

being irish can i just say that "stadium heights with damien rice" is the most depressing and bizarre lyric to hear a young singer/songwriter utter, especially while he's getting funky

that rascals is a banger imo. could lose verse 2 tho.