rolling pop 2011

does anyone else think that ne-yo's phoned-in chorus on "give me everything" sounds uncomfortably like "hero" by mariah carey

omg btw i can now confirm that just can't get enough is NOT the bep song i like

i mean it's fine but

i was liiike ... who is this

were you thinking of a different song upthread or did you just change your mind about it?

i was thinking of a different song. i was in the office and it came on the radio, and i asked my coworker "who the hell is this anyway" and she said "BEP"

do they even have another song on the radio right now?

besides the "Time of My Life" one? i don't think so.

you know what - it honestly might have been "i just can't get enough"

i think i kind of like that song sometimes ... :/

i just came to say hello just came on

i mean the first half and second half of "Just Can't Get Enough" are practically different songs so i can see how that could lead to confusion or you'd be hot and cold about it. i personally only really like the first half.

i rly don't know how i feel about all these songs. like that bruno mars song. what is that

yeah there's some sketchy shit on the radio these days

for real! it sounds like a banana boat commercial!

I f/w their new one "Don't Stop the Party"

lol ramzi

got this on repeat. really digging

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5iMvblOG9U

I'm into it.

i just came to say hello just came on

was so happy when i heard this out last night

I know I mentioned it upthread, but where were all you "Hello" fans last summer? (I get it...no radio play, etc...but it was hardly a secret.)

I don't remember hearing/reading about it

what is "Hello"?

apparently a song by something called Dragonette and Martin Solveig that charted in a bunch of countries last year and is now climbing the Hot 100. more insurgent Eurodance i guess?

ship you might dig it -- it's as much rock as it is & dance

i compared it a few weeks ago to one of those dance remixes of a big kelly clarkson single except "hello" is great because the song was written in that fashion & not remixed

i heard some dragonette shit last year i dug

oh it was the fabian remix of the dragonette song 'easy'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdr9_ZZWxWI

Here's "Hello"

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

And here's the song they did together in 2009 (which I actually liked more)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh0UN0OdYtA

Beyonce's trying to salvage her "Girls" song-- performed it on the Billboard Music Awards tonight

is it really "salvaging" if she was going to perform her current single on the next big awards show regardless of whether it was doing well on the charts or not?

I meant salvage the success of the song in the marketplace.

yea i mean hello is the kind of song that is soo obvious but it works

yeah, and my point is that "salvaging" is most likely an entirely exterior narrative, and she probably booked and started rehearsing that performance before the song was even out and would've done that song that way whether it was #1 on the charts or #100

lots of people being total sheep w/r/t dismissing "run the world"

more like total sheeit

how can you 'tell' when people are reacting honestly and when they're following the flock, o wise one

i'm not so much talking about indiv reactions, more the editorial slant that leads to words like "salvaged" being bandied around, and the "this should have been the single" attitude to the new one etc.

ii just think it's funny how after YEARS of big stars doing warmup singles, or simultaneous/consecutive single releases for different artists, people still freak out if the first thing they hear isn't an obvious hit. it's Beyonce, she'll have her hits.

otm. they won't kick her off columbia for one single obviously, what's the worst that can happen? she has the star power to make a few missteps, and i wouldn't consider a top-40 single as being that egregious of an error in the first place

yeah i think it's the automatic conflation of commercial underperformance with "a misstep" or a mistake or something - like we all know the goal of pop is to shift units but it really has no bearing on how much i enjoy a song, and i'm disappointed in ~critical outlets~ for acting like it does

nb i have no idea how "run the world" has even done on the charts & tbh i don't care

people still freak out if the first thing they hear isn't an obvious hit. it's Beyonce, she'll have her hits.

Who is freaking out and thinks she won't have her hits? Just saying this song is not an obvious hit is not the same thing. Who is saying "this song is not at the top of the charts and therefore she won't have more hits from this upcoming album." Some Dude, you may have read more than I have about this single and maybe there are people freaking re the hit potential for the whole album, but I haven't read that.

As for the merits of the song, I kinda agree with Maura in the Voice who likes it but adds:

there's also something exhausting about it that goes beyond its cheer-team beats. It doesn't seem so much like a song as it does a collection of movements, of snippets that can be broken down into iTunes previews.

when i'm referring to you, i quote your post or address you specifically. when i say "people" i mean...people.

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

nice chorus

Maura OTM.

http://i.imgur.com/TKeiD.jpg

official artwork for the single

heinous

that shit needs to bump "e.t." the fuck off the radio

taylor knew how to do nerdy, so did avril, ugh at katy

idk i think it's pretty hilarious