rolling pop 2011

she sounds so bored on it :/

i'm actually sort of looking fwd to the new britney in that i have no idea what to expect at all. did she continue to work with rusko et al for it, or was it back to max martin and dr luke?

Kim Kardashian is going to release an album, eh? Why am I reminded of the Paris Hilton fiasco aptly titled 'Paris'?

I'd be excited about Avril but her main sound isn't popular anymore. I sometimes feel like the Pop/Punk and Pop/Rock period of 2006-2009 went way too fast.

But obviously most anticipated album of the year is Lady GaGa's BORN THIS WAY.

I have to snicker at that album title. Born like what? Like a corporate shill that records innocent dance music? Honey, the clock is ticking and your novelty is wearing off!

valuable

^^

Honey, the clock is ticking and your novelty is wearing off!

In a time where it's almost impossible to be huge for any extended amount of time, Gaga feels like maybe the only new artist in the last 3 or 4 years to have gotten there. You don't like her, fine, but manufacturing some kind of flash-in-the-pan status for her indicates you have no idea about anything.

I really like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE47er6qnqg

And feel quite terrible for so doing. They're so obvs being pushed as the new Chase & Status (Pendulum Remix) that I can just tell there's something awful lurking here but the big smacking club-footed chonkiness of its big stupid riff is kind of making me fall in love with it. Also the bit in the video where the boychild reacts to discovering the machine has become unplugged...

Anyway, a lock for a big early-year chart position in the UK, I'd imagine.

hahah that song is like 2 mins of intro and 2.5 mins of outro.

i like it too.

i am definitely excited about "born this way". obv the title is referring to her inner freakdom, which is cheesy if marketable -- but i don't mind it.

still jam to "you and i"

the game in that video is just like streets of rage for like 10 seconds :)

demo for the new Britney single:

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

so this is basically Take it Off v2.0?

Who's singing on that Britney demo? She sounds familiar.

popjustice says the production, stucture & vocal sound v. different on the real thing. so hopefully the real thing sounds nothing like ke$ha

The demo definitely sounds demo-ish. I don't really hear the Ke$ha similarities beyond the electroey elements. It's not bad but IMO it definitely needs a good-to-great production job to be decent.

If it's a Lauren Christy/Matrix song, she's probably singing it herself.

Oh, apparently it's this person:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TCep7Fm11Q

oh, bonnie mckee. she co-wrote teenage dream and california gurls iirc. the demo is ok.

"Heard an early demo of my new single leaked. If u think that's good, wait til you hear the real one Tuesday. -Brit"

^^^^

btw also i was watching keeping up with the kardashians and there she was

ciara

talking to kim kardashian about how the dream wanted to work wit her

okay i'm 100% in the "black & yellow" is a str8 banger camp

for some reason i thought the beat was kinda weak but it actually bangs

my opinions on pop/rap get fucked when i can't ride around listening to the radio all the time

I sometimes feel like the Pop/Punk and Pop/Rock period of 2006-2009 went way too fast.

probably compounded by missing the 2002-2005 era of same?

btw also i was watching keeping up with the kardashians and there she was

ciara

talking to kim kardashian about how the dream wanted to work wit her

cici's going to be on the kim kardash album, isn't she

*dies*

I honestly don't understand for the life of me why someone would be interested in a Kim Kardashian album.

cuz it'd be written by the-dream

Oh ok, fair nuff. I didn't catch that. But still, aren't there more constructive uses of his talents?

are there more constructive uses of his dick?

What is she even famous for? I don't even know who she is other than a name.

sorry that was mean & mildly sexist xp

she's famous for being famous! socialite etc

kim's less obnoxious than the other socialites tbh

plus DAT ASS

she made a sex tape w/ ray j
dated reggie bush
had a reality show

s'about it

she's famous for being famous! socialite etc

― J0rdan S., Saturday, January 8, 2011 12:27 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Oh good, I care even less about her than before.

http://i55.tinypic.com/10mvcid.jpg

so jealous

also she's dating kanye west now (allegedly)

i'm pretty much pro the idea of most famous-for-being-famous socialites releasing music. their existence is kind of ridiculous enough as it is, and something about the blithe inappropriateness of it all really appeals to me. paris hilton's album still one of my favourites of the 00s, real talk.

i had no idea

haha kanye deserves kim

(not that i have the slightest idea of ~what she's like~ having never actually experienced her in whatever her natural habitat is)

their existence is kind of ridiculous enough as it is, and something about the blithe inappropriateness of it all really appeals to me

this is a good defense tho -- i feel like rich j. would approve!

definitely I agree with that! it's like - why shouldn't kim k release an album at this point

I just feel more like why should she exist?

defending ppl like her turns one into an extreme capitalist -- she exists because the market demands that she exist

I don't recall being an extreme capitalist at any point in my life.

i just find it way less offensive that "career" pop stars who i feel are talentless or obnoxious or unredeemable, like katy perry or ke$ha - the idea of kim kardash, paris h &c making music is really no more ridiculous than that.

also there's the idea of setting what is really a very weird existence - like why should they exist? why do they? it feels very unstable, like it shouldn't exist, and yet there they are larger than life - setting this to music. on which note, this speculative village voice blog on kim and terius is AMAZING http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2010/11/the_ballad_of_k.php

*than

http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/705/779544flvej5.gif

heard "countdown" on radio yesterday for the first time, jammed

It's your boy Romeo (with Usher), gone solo (vastly improves once the bachata kicks in):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3XyWhrZnqE

(improves anyway)

Horrible intro skit.

you guys i think we need to talk about bai ling's incredibly odd pop single about getting out of rehab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhgYGiMMR9I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0PpP0ksmcI&fmt=18

boring video but amazing song. why this wasn't pushed more during the summer i'm not sure

Between her outfits in this video and the Give Me Everything nappy-thing she had for that, I'm convinced there's a stylist out there somewhere who really hates this woman.

omg that bai ling song

bow wow has a hit now

and t-pain REALLY has himself a hit now

oh yeah?

"5 o clock" is his first solo single inside the top 20 since summer of 08

fucking hell i heard a jessie j song (called "domino") on the radio today. are we seriously not done with her?? she sounds awful too, like it makes katy perry's vocal on "california gurls" sound like a virtuoso performance

yeah for some reason after her album flopped we're getting this annoying 2nd wave of promotion for her w/ "domino" and that godawful vma appearance

I prefer this guest-free Romeo Santos single from the new album (to the one I posted):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElU-VcWEhRU&ob=av2e

yeah for some reason after her album flopped we're getting this annoying 2nd wave of promotion for her w/ "domino" and that godawful vma appearance

don't worry if she ever breaks through and becomes ~culturally important~ j0rdan et al will suddenly come round to her

Just think of all the underground soulful r&b singers Jessie J is stealing audiences from.

don't act like you don't think people should be listening to teedra instead!

People who listen to Jessie j should be kept well away from teedra (though to be honest luxurious undergrind hasn't drawn me back much).

I've become really enamored with the googleproof New Look this week. Canadian synthpop duo with a debut lp out in Europe.

I don't think they're terribly chart friendly, but until someone starts a rolling indie electronica thread rolling pop will have to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydFcH5yvtWM

yo that's really good!

I guess this is the first "real" Ruby Goe single, after some demos and self-released stuff from earlier this year and last. She's so cute I can barely take it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqiUYJB2AUc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hz64-_2Gu8

^_______^

this is a banger for real

rolling pop 2012

Chet Faker - "No Diggity"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIfFA8-RaHQ

Australian beardo covers Blackstreet? It's not a travesty a la Karmin or whatever, but I'm trying to figure out what about this was necessary...

Nothing! But come on, that's pretty good! loosen up man!