rolling pop 2011

tom ewing proclaimed it the worst album of 2011...so far

"price tag" is the worst single of the year by far

astonishingly it's not even the worst on the album

this song is gay as shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrFHW7zIeZU

also it will be #1 at some point this year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UECeJzd-G30
prob my fave single so far this year

oh god

i know lol... this is like the first gossip-relate song i've heard!

and i haven't really been paying attention to new stuff this year so far

but yeah

their cover of "are you that somebody" is so atrocious

but it's not like anything has really come out this year

this song is good tho -- she should've showed up the recording sessions for the new hercules & love affair album & tried to convince them that she was antony

I do kind of like how Beth Ditto will do whatever she wants whenever she wants, considering that The Gossip began as a rave-up garage band. I've got no strong opinion either way on her recent solo stuff, but...yeah.

i find it hard to not get cynical about this beth ditto thing but it's def good

ha, produced by simian mobile disco -- makes tons of sense

this song is good tho -- she should've showed up the recording sessions for the new hercules & love affair album & tried to convince them that she was antony

― little humma boy (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, March 8, 2011 11:39 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

She and Florence are both people I would like to see do proper disco/house/diva music.

I'd like Florence Welch to go away and never been seen or heard from again.

beth yes, florence a very fucking firm NO

the gossip's cover of "careless whisper" was great, agree that the "are you that somebody" one was risible

I know that supposedly Beth Ditto has this "personality" and is a known singer and whatever, but I could have got into that video so much more if they'd substituted her face with a model's a la Black Box.

I do quite like the song, I just wish she was a bit more anonymous. It reminds me a lot, for some reason, of Billie Ray Martin's "Your Loving Arms", although I really can't find a reason why. How long before this 90s comeback starts to manifest itself in the pop music of today's superstars?

beth ditto ep is surprisingly good!

How long before this 90s comeback starts to manifest itself in the pop music of today's superstars?

80s revivalism took about 8 years to crest so don't hold yr breath.

ok i finally heard the Jessie J song on the radio yesterday, was expecting something Ke$ha-level obnoxious but it was like bland mid-'00s Natasha Bedingfield/early Nelly Furtado type ish, don't really understand the outrage.

yeah have you heard "do it like a dude" yet

i find "price tag" more obnoxious lyrically than sonically, i mean apart from her awful grating voice

also apologies to americans that you seem to be getting jessie j from us, not katy b

it's beyond "seem to be" at this point sadly

ok i finally heard the Jessie J song on the radio yesterday, was expecting something Ke$ha-level obnoxious but it was like bland mid-'00s Natasha Bedingfield/early Nelly Furtado type ish, don't really understand the outrage.

― JaySeanLilWayne (some dude), Wednesday, March 9, 2011 8:51 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah have you heard "do it like a dude" yet

― lex pretend, Wednesday, March 9, 2011 9:32 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

This! Genuinely sonically offensive is the awful 'Do It Like a Dude', weird gender role stuff a la early Katy Perry + obnoxious white girl patois hiphop a la Lonely Island. Price Tag is more "oh dear god another song about how music isn't about being commercial, it's about being *real* from someone who should KNOW better.

because (a) "real" vs. "commercial" rockism blah blah, (b) Jessie J is part of the very Dr Luke, pop songwriting, etc. machine that she's ostensibly railing against, (c) you are CHARGING MONEY for this song are you not? Answer: "I understand power to the people but everyone has to make a living. If you steal music I can't then give you more because I'm not proving to the label that I'm someone that's going to earn them money for them to keep me.", (d) it's not that great a song.

ts: jessie j v.s juicy j

"price tag" is outright awful in its own right but you really have to know "do it like a dude" to fully understand the jessie j hate

Jessie J is the worst fucking thing

like, worse than Drake and Bieber

oh yeah, "Do It Like A Dude," I may have listened to it once when Fever was hyped about it? it's kinda lol, at least as a song people in other countries have to hear all the time that i can just hear on youtube and then forget about. afaic writing "Party In The U.S.A." is her greatest crime.

ugh I thought I couldn't dislike her any more and yet here we are

I still like "Do it Like a Dude" and don't get (still) why it's so hateable, but everything else I've heard from her is blech.

white ppl doing non-white ppl accents is almost always grounds for dismissal imo

also white ppl sucking horribly and just being awful is almost grounds for dismissal

almost always

hate is making me more incoherent than usual

yes, but it's the fake patois (& the so obviously post-minaj bent of the video) that puts it over the top

writing a song for rihanna but then recording it yourself doesn't mean that you get to affect her accent

i think "Do It Like A Dude" is a perfectly good title/premise for a pop song but she didn't do it very well, maybe a dude could have done it better

omg just imagining drake doing it

like a dude

Hey, it's not like I'm not accustomed to having my likes be outliers around the rolling pop thread and I accept what you guys are saying and even half-agree with it, but I still think that song is tits.

also her bio trumpets that she's written for timberlake, aguilera, rihanna - been doing a bit of research and it seems all of these songs must never have been used as they don't show up on any databases. imagine the calibre of song that was CUT from xtina's bionic!

i guess we didn't realise at the time that "party in the usa" was written by two swedes and a brit?

i think "Do It Like A Dude" is a perfectly good title/premise for a pop song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HKH7Emy1SY

johnny do you like katy b?

(and also dan, and also al if he deigns to listen to UK music that isn't being thrust on US radio)

i guess we didn't realise at the time that "party in the usa" was written by two swedes and a brit?

― lex pretend, Wednesday, March 9, 2011 3:36 PM (40 seconds ago) Bookmark

i think the mysticism regarding this song fell apart when miley revealed that she'd never heard a jay-z song

"like a boy" is a million times better because ciara actually sings about real male/female roles in relationships and what's considered "acceptable" behaviour for men and women, while jessie j reduces it all to lame signifiers and gender essentialism

also "like a boy" doesn't sound like ass

"Do It Like A Dude" is a much funnier and more evocative phrase than the boring Ciara/Beyonce song titles (which also are a totally different premise)

damn you guys are right--this is one terrible song

so you really only care about the title of the song? xp

johnny do you like katy b?

I liked the song that was in the top 77 countdown, and the song with Magnetic Man, but what I've heard since I really have no strong feelings about.