rolling pop 2011

I love "hypnotico," "papi," "what is love" and "good hit"

there was a small mention of this in the UK top 40 poll from a few weeks back but this is pretty fucking great right here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnET4RKXx5k

it sorta reminds me of those dance remixes of songs like "since u been gone" & "love story" except since it was conceived that way it works 100% and is a total anthem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnET4RKXx5k

lol whoops

excuse the stupid interlude in the video btw

dre is at 16 on the hot 100?????

i don't think i've even heard 'i need a doctor'

save yourself

"Hello" is from last summer.

yeah i know but i'm just hearing it on the radio now

+ there were basically no ilx posts about it

int'l music almost always takes forever & a day to circle back here (another example from this year would be don omar's awesome "danza kuduro") unless it's a female singer from england, & sometimes even then

It's cool. Even though I heard it last summer (and liked the single they did together a couple years ago), it didn't really click with me until it showed up in a gum commercial on tv recently.

His new one is with Kele

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Eh0vtOkqZA

everyone should check out "danza kuduro" btw altho it looks like they talked about that one in the reggaeton thread last year

Since we're talking about int'l stuff, this is from Sweden and sounds just enough like Robyn that I'm sure the lex will hate the shit out of it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qghv8i4FiSA

Just came across this freestyle throwback from Erodiscotique (Dimitri from Paris & Rocca collabo). Grrreat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWL4On61GoI

that erodiscotique ep is thoroughly marvellous

I love that Solveig-Dragonette single, it's so "Voodoo Child" in the best possible way

the first time i heard "i need a doctor" i was like o_O

i was like i DO need a doctor

Clip from Nicola Roberts' debut. Very promising imo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLe1_7TThnY

i was like i DO need a doctor

lmao

fleet foxes outsold j lo & sade

do u like the fleet foxes?

as much as the next guy, i guess -- i haven't heard the new album tho

if i post here that makes me the next guy and i hates em

it's not like they outsold Sade's blockbuster 2010 album, they outsold Sade's second greatest hits compilation

i was hanging out with some friends of mine who are a year younger than me, and who listen to stuff i don't listen to. it was fun bc i got to ask them questions. i was like what do u think of fleet foxes, what do u think of vampire weekend, what do u think of arcade fire. i think the biggest responses were for fleet foxes and bon iver. people were like exclaiming and shit. this is not entirely relevant to this discussion, just sayin'.

yeah, kids are pretty fuckin' stupid.

people were like exclaiming and shit.

love this

I guess this fits in the pop category? (It's probably better for the dilettante thread, but that thing is deadsville.) Anyway, this is Kauf's second track of the year and it makes me want to walk down the sidewalk Travolta-style in my own remake of Saturday Night Fever.

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

"E.T." aside this is probably the best top 5 the U.S. has had in a while imo:

1. Rolling In The Deep, Adele
2. E.T., Katy Perry Featuring Kanye West
3. The Edge Of Glory, Lady Gaga
4. Give Me Everything, Pitbull Featuring Ne-Yo, AfroJack & Nayer
5. Just Can't Get Enough, The Black Eyed Peas

"give me everything" is surprisingly great

can't be resisting that beat when the chorus comes round

just can't get enough might be the black eyed peas song i actually like

have all the ppl who hate on BEP endlessly ever heard "Weekend" or "Fallin' Up"?

(yes I know that's like a lifetime away from where they are now but it's not like they spent their entire career doing "I Gotta Feeling")

i don't know if i've heard those songs -- but i don't endlessly hate on them. i definitely hated on i gotta feeling for a hot minute but when i hear it on the radio now i actually kind of like it.

I strongly suggest checking them out, I like nu-BEP but I really miss old-BEP

coo

I kinda burnt out on "weekend" as the song always played at house parties by friends who hated street rap, chart rap etc. BEP's subsequent transformation must have upset that crowd no end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnYiQ2FVG8I

sorry I just love this track and I'd never actually seen the video before

"I Gotta Feeling" is better than either of those songs and I hate "I Gotta Feeling".

i think the only BEP song i properly like to date is "my humps" :/

It's "Imma Be" and nothing else.

("Joints & Jams" is what's up tho.)

"Edge of Glory" is the only song in the current top 5 I like and I only kind of like it.

I be hatin'.

given how boring adele fundamentally is, "rolling in the deep" being okay feels like some sort of minor triumph

"Meet Me Half Way" was great.

Meet Me Halfway was a great chorus paired with some of the most embarrassing, half-assed verses I've heard in years:

I spent my time just thinkin thinkin thinkin bout you
Every single day yes, i'm really missin' missin' you
And all those things we use to use to use to do
Hey girl, wuz up, it use to be just me and you
I spent my time just thinkin thinkin thinkin bout you
Every single day, yes i'm really missin missin you
And all those things we use to use to use to do
Hey girl wuz up, wuz up, wuz up, wuz up