best run of 3 or more Hot 100 #1 singles from one album

o right, i think i was getting my chart infom from hearing rick dees piped thru the pa at the base exchange at the time so my memory is skewed, should've remembered since i did remember that in keeping tragic kingdom off that list

combine that era's idea of r&b plus that era's idea of ac = the model for #1 hits.

or it was, until some numbnuts at billboard felt he needed to unskew the charts

I don't know if Katy Perry's voice is really even a problem on "Firework" because it's such a horribly written song to begin with

― a slow tempo, and existential lyrics with YOLO imagery. (crüt), Thursday, November 1, 2012 1:02 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

I don't know if I've ever heard the whole thing. I just have to hear a few seconds of it blaring before I make the gasface

before your colors burst

i really have no idea how "Firework" became an 'it gets better' gay pride thing when the lyrics much more clearly evoke acts of terrorism or a school shooting

the singing is like the cries of children after an Obamadrone vaporized their parents.

the only two of those katy perry songs i know well are 'california girls' and 'teenage dream' (first is ok, love the second), i know i've heard 'firework' and 'e.t.' at least once but i've blocked any memory of how they go. i think one of them rips off tatu iirc.

"E.T." is the t.A.T.u-esque one

Katy Perry's voice is more like:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__iHzedtY3VA/TJqbg7FW-5I/AAAAAAAAB9E/4qfUIXLoPAM/s1600/fantasy-island.jpg-

I really love "California Gurls" tbh

I like Hot & Cold and Kissed A Girl and I get off the KP train after those.

never forget how atrocious her ballad and only single to miss the top 10 was:

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

yeah that song is just stunningly terrible

is that Shia The Beef?

no that's katy perry

signed, the one-man "Dirrty" street team

― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), jeudi 1 novembre 2012 16:35 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm on that team too!

Lotta single men at that team meet.

Great!

I don't know if Katy Perry's voice is really even a problem on "Firework" because it's such a horribly written song to begin with

For me the problem is really her voice. In general, but especially on that track. The song itself just sounds like a regular P!nk/Kelly Clarkson song.

i generally stan for most of what both Pink and Kelly put out but i would like to think i'd dislike that song no matter who sang it

voting The Supremes.

Jaysus, Aguilera used to be class. Cad a tharla?

Latin for "she sucks ass."

she really hasn't done anything good since "Ain't No Other Man", has she?

"Ain't No Other Man" is the only Xtina I like. Kinda hoped it'd point her career in a more tolerable direction at the time, but only mutant attempts to be Lady Gaga and duets with Adam Levine were to follow.

Katy Perry...jeez guys, wtf? Her singing is dreadful, her music is chintzy garbage, her attempts at cuteness are vulgar, her attempts at seriousness are offensive. She s why so many people otherwise unjustly hate pop.

naw, most of the singles from the first two xtina albums were good

Can't really get on board with this, unfortunately. Her ballads are generally Dianne Warren-style schmaltz tht she has the tendency to violently oversing. "Genie in a Bottle" is typically gross Lolita tease. "What a Girl Wants" is a bland little nothing of a song. "Dirty" is garish as hell. I totally get how she was mostly in the shadow of Britney or so long, and I don't even like Britney.

For the sake of not sounding like a total crank, though, let me reiterate how awesome "Ain't No Ther Man" is.

i'm with j0rdan on "Ain't No Other Man", big corny piece of shit imo.

i like the scene in the new Christina video where she bashes a guys head with a baseball bat and glitter confetti flies out, but it's sad how she's still chasing the wacky irreverent pop art murder! thing gaga was going 2-3 years ago in the "Paparazzi" and "Telephone" videos.

Teenage Dream is a beautiful song, fuck the haters

Yeah, that's my favorite straight up pop song in the last handful of years.

Tho, yeah, anyone probably could've sung it and it would've been just as good.

anybody probably could've sung it and it would've been even better

There might be cell phone video of me during a karaoke session that would disprove that.

tbh I can't differentiate between superproduced female pop vocals, like, at all
My only distinction between this girl and that girl is the subject matter and production

"ain't no other man" is a good song but i'm not sure why people think it's awesome or whatever. i do really love her singles from her debut, though -- everything really clicked at that time with the songs and her image (though of course she probably hated the way she was presented). of all the great teen pop singles that came out that year, "genie in a bottle" seems to me the quintessential representation of what the genre was at that time: conflicting desire and hesitation, sexuality as a mysterious and magical thing. "what a girl wants" was definitely a more conventional song, but it too struck me as a breath of fresh air and actually a bit euphoric. i still remember being at some family gathering and seeing the video play for the first time on their tv, thinking "oh wow, this girl is still around and i think i'm happy about that."

and "teenage dream" is a great song

tbh I can't differentiate between superproduced female pop vocals, like, at all
My only distinction between this girl and that girl is the subject matter and production

― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, November 2, 2012 9:30 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah doesn't really take a microscope to figure out the difference between Katy and Pink (which is huge, vocally, despite often interchangeable subject matter and production)

teledyldonix otm about early xtina, those songs are so good, with that fidget-y post-Timbaland late '90s thing that didn't really creep into any of her contemporaries hits at the time

'genie' and esp 'what a girl wants' are the only two xina i love really, i like some others ('ain't no other man' probably most) well enough and enjoy others on sheer principle (hello 'beautiful') but she's never been anywhere near as big a fave as britney for me even during the time when it seems xina was gonna be the one to actually have a career. do feel somewhat bad about biodome or whatever flopping, it was a genuine if hamfisted attempt to be ahead of the curve and do something new that unfortunately took so long that by the time it came out it looked like desperate attempt at copping gaga style; do appreciate at least one of madonna's heirs attempting to also bring some club subculture onto radio, even if by that point electroclash needed to stay dead and buried.

lol biodome

My damn boss still defends Aguilera -- "at least she can sing; Britney can't."

yeah that's true enough but` irrelevant, it's not like her ability to sing has really raised a single to another level like w/ beyonce or george michael or michael jackson etc

Still my favorite xtina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RQDIJ2CvbA

yeah doesn't really take a microscope to figure out the difference between Katy and Pink

Not reallly my point-- though ten years on I still couldn't tell you which lead is which on "Lady Marmelade" aside from Christina. More that the "Katy's voice is annoying" thing is foreign to me unless someone is offering a more general crit regarding a common style of vocal production.

Hmm I'm just listening to that "Thinking of you" song and her voice is pretty amazingly annoying, forget it

you really can't tell lil kim and mya apart??? hmm

Ha no! When they do their comps over the outro, Missy could switch round the introductions and I wouldn't notice.

Lil Kim is the one that doesn't sing btw

Uh I didn't mean Lil Kim, I meant Mya and Pink

not being able to tell Mya and Pink apart is pretty crazy