rolling pop 2011

lupe's going #1

lol i didn't realize that horrific modest mouse single of his was produced by kane beatz -- that dude is such a fucking hack

wow becoming the elder statesman of subkanye blog rappers and getting fans angry about your big mean label can actually help you move units, who knew?

o_O

Lasers, which will debut at #1 next week with between 220-240k in sales, the second biggest of the year next to Adele and the best start of his career.

o_O

the funny thing about this is that it's gonna force him to continue his career making awful major label indebted crap instead of nobly retiring or w/e his plan was

another dumptruck full of money pulls up to skylar grey's house

mike shinoda -- unemployed since september 2010 -- puts the truck in park

that one went over my head

lol well i was making a joke about skylar grey transcending mike shinoda, as such he's driving the dump truck, but i forgot for a sec that he's in linkin park

transcending fort minor*

i miss chester bennington

well LP's last album was released in September so i thought that was part of the joke but then it made even less sense!

look, i screwed up

haha no it's cool, just the month thing made it extra confusing!

I haven't much kept up with chartpop lately but watching the UK top 40 rundown I'm already sick of this 'rap song with melodramatic emo guest singer chorus' thing. Also why is Skyler Grey one person in the Dre video and two different people in the Diddy video?

Diddy's group Dirty Money has 2 female singers (which makes Skylar Grey's appearance on "Coming Home" especially superfluous) -- she's not in the Diddy video but that is her in the Dre video

don't much care for jessie j but would like to know you people's thoughts on this article http://drownedinsound.com/releases/16079/reviews/4142296

i kinda like this -- old school teen pop crew lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D31Gzfe2yL0

also aside from the hilarious unintentional robyn punchline in the first paragraph, perp's jessie j review was good & connecting her w/ rebecca black in the last paragraph lifts the review to greater heights than "necessary hit job"

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15246-who-you-are/

also, you know, i was driving home today w/ the windows down & there was a nice breeze going and wiz's "roll up" came on the radio & damn if it didn't sound kinda perfect

i didn't really have anything invested in wiz pre-"black & yellow" so i don't really care that he went full pop & it goes w/o saying that from an aesthetic standpoint getting w/ stargate is a much better look than alex da kid or bruno mars or dr. luke

both the stargate/wiz songs have cool bridges imo -- i always thought that the "black & yellow" bridge was the best runners beat since "cash flow"

oh yeah, the new bruno mars single -- yikes

oh yeah, rebecca black is in at #72

"The Lazy Song" is terrible but i'm taking some comfort in the arrival of a Bruno Mars single that i can't imagine shooting to #1

btw i'd like to be the first person on ILM to mention Christina Perri's "Jar Of Hearts" since it has yet to be rightfully singled out as one of the most horrible and inexplicable chart hits in recent memory

Oh man! I am not a rolling pop regular, but I wanted to be that person! I've meant to post about that song for at least a month. She seems like she was grown in a petri dish, but the song's not THAT bad. It's not as bad as that song that samples "Old Man".

wouldn't a pop star grown in a petri dish have a good voice and maybe no skunk hair? the song really is THAT bad imo.

agreed re: "roll up." i can see why people might call it a slight song, but to me it sounds perfect for this time of year

heard that bruno mars song on the radio for the first time the other day, cringed at the lyric about having sex in the morning or whatever

good point
still, the song that samples "old man" is worse

even tho i should identify with the bruno mars song there's something that's really smug & repelling about it

well there is or should be a lot more to enjoying music than identifying with it, no worries there

4 straight number ones for KP

also there's a wiz khalifa song that i've never heard of at #6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97bmjNjPi9M

also t-pain can thank #teambreezy for his finally getting a song off 'revolver' into the top 40

I'm so glad that the Guetta dance-pop sound and the ideas of chopped-and-screwed have finally come together, especially with Nadia Oh using this as a vehicle to beat Cassie at her own game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9nda8X6sOU

tonight was the first night i heard "e.t." blasting out of a car window -- this is my litmus test for whether i can consider a #1 single 'legitimate' so i guess it was juuuuust in time

i'm not quite sure why ppl bought that particular wiz khalifa song en masse, i don't like it as much as his others

yeah idgi

BEP "Just Can't Get Enough" is v Alex Da Kid, yeah?

i'd like to be the first person on ILM to mention Christina Perri's "Jar Of Hearts" since it has yet to be rightfully singled out as one of the most horrible and inexplicable chart hits in recent memory/

I heard this for the first time the other day and think it is an absolute jam.

BEP "Just Can't Get Enough" is v Alex Da Kid, yeah?

― maybe i'm just gay (Tape Store), Friday, April 1, 2011 12:32 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

not in any way shape or form, literally or figuratively, no

I really like the Nadia Oh song! Probably the best bit of royal wedding paraphernalia there'll be.

Not to derail the thread but this is my favourite bit of royal wedding merch so far:

http://windsorknot.today.com/_news/2011/03/22/6320417-keep-the-royal-romance-fresh-refrigerated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG3KEr9R56o

"You know my dirty little secret / I wanna sing like Patti Smith for you / Cos I love you like a punk rock song."

i like the song "grenade" by bruno mars

yeah, it's not too bad

was at my dads yesterday & read the newyorker sfj thing on him, it was really good, kind of abt how he is plain in the most universally palatable way which sounds like a dis but acknowledges thats its somehow kind of undeniable

"look at me now" is officially chris brown's biggest hit in 3 years