rolling pop 2011

the rabid hatred that song has inspired (esp on the internet) is amazing, i am actually impressed, especially considering it is doing really well. i luv songs that demand attn from tha h8rz

i argued with her PR about releasing it as the lead single after hearing the other songs, he was like...none of the others would have got anywhere near the sheer attention "swagger jagger" has. idk, i think it was a given it'd chart high whatever they released, even diana vickers managed a no 1 off the back of x factor.

so the nayer solo career is happening, and here is the debut single, and it's...GOOD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVGoJ_V5F2Q

al's column this week is awesome

http://t.co/b6oBkFl

Absolutely

thanks! honorable mention to deej for partially spurring the idea with all those "this yo gotti song is a BIG DEAL, it has 2 million hits on youtube" arguments

just read it, yay al!

rofl xp

Titles on Demi Lovato's new album include "You're My Only Shorty", with feature appearances from the likes of Jason DeRulo and Iyaz.

it's kinda weird how she's apparently sticking with the R&B direction but the lead single is "Skyscraper"

JoJo's new song is DOING IT FOR ME.

http://www.soulculture.co.uk/blogs/music-blog/newmusic/jojo-disaster-new-music/

wow i really like it. i wonder who the songwriters and producers were.

ppl really want this jojo thing to happen huh

anyway, good song

sounds like a jojo song

iirc JoJo already happened twice, ppl just want her to happen again

omg looking up JoJo on Spotify is amazing

http://open.spotify.com/album/5u38gbe3vCkaq1TBc6KRM6

so should she change her name to JoJoJo then? xp

the high road = still a brilliant album

new kelly clarkson single (which i will listen to once this podcast is cover) y'all:

http://www.kellyclarkson.com/us/news/mrknow-it-all-premiere

good lookin out

BOOOOORING

should've gone with "let me down"

yes this is really not good at all

She's better than this Bruno Mars/Ryan Tedder soundalike crap (I had to check to make sure neither of them wrote it—turns out it's "Ester Dean/Brett James/Brian Kennedy").

so the nayer solo career is happening, and here is the debut single, and it's...GOOD

Hey that IS a cover of Elvis Crespo, no wait, well not a cover, but the reference is there. I don't like this though, unsurprisingly.

(I'd be willing to be Elvis Crespo's "Suavemente" is the most club/radio played merengue song worldwide, since it came out in the late-90s.)

kelly single is forgettable, unfortunately

"moves like jagger" would be pretty great if it wasn't built around adam levine singing the phrase "moves like jagger" dozens of times

oh and add this to the list of flo-rida singles that i begrudgingly enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2ooeJfckok

jojo single is disappointingly regressive considering "marvin's room (can't do better)" is one of my trax of the year

ditto kelly c considering the stuff that leaked last month

come ON, pop stars, we know you can do better

why would anyone's remix of a Drakesadpanda anthem be anyone's track of the year

Because she makes it genuinely affecting and narrated by an interesting character instead of fucking Drake.

man, I thought "Moves Like Jagger" would die ignominiously after its early peak in July; now it's played three times an hour.

i still haven't heard it on the radio, which is weird because i at least check in w/ the local top 40 station pretty regularly

i've heard it once on the radio, which i don't listen to too much these days, but still: once

why would anyone's remix of a Drakesadpanda anthem be anyone's track of the year

great lyrics, great performance, no trace of drake

i hear the Levine/Travie collab more (xpost)

i know i know, i'm alone in thinking the Noah "40" Shebib underwater moping chamber sound is almost as loathsome as the vocals Drake applies to it

i don't think i'd stan for that style of production but it's a bit too malleable to either love or hate as a thing - right song/singer, it comes into its own, wrong song/singer, it's execrable and lazy

"marvin's room" is in my top 10/15 tracks this year

yeah her version of "marvin's room" is great. i have to say though i am really impressed by "disaster" as well despite the fact that it follows the jojo-hit template very closely.

kelly clarkson's single :(

funnily enough right after posting that i went to run an errand, and in the car one of the D.C. R&B stations was playing the JoJo version (or rather a blend of it and the Drake version). it's aight but c'mon. j0rdan calling Bieber's version of "Trust Issues" interesting prompted the same feeling in me -- like wholesome-looking young white folks doing versions of dark debauched songs by rap stars is an idea that's older than YouTube and surely has been bled dry by the last few years of webcam kids.

i was calling the bieber version of "trust issues" "interesting" in the lightest sense

i did have to listen to it just to see if he says "bitches" 50 times like the Drake version but he changes it to "women"

i actually heard jojo's "marvin's room" before i'd heard the drake song (and before i knew it was a remix), i just thought it was a super-good song

ditto

also her version is more dark and debauched, or at least strung out and medicated, than his

i'm just saying you can do better

why does everyone hate drake?

that's a complicated question