rolling pop 2017

wouldn't say i love her music but she seems to have a lot of potential

love "uh huh" so much

GO
ING
IN
FORTHEKILL

also enjoying new dagny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rReRtMbQq18

love the dua lipa record, despite havin songs from 3 years ago

Chart-pop sucks again.

Julia Michaels song reminds me of 90s Tori Amos

i love halsey now

the halsey record is extremely boring

i like "100 letters"... and "walls could talk" is a great pink song. otherwise it's still pretty shit.

I don't mind it as much as everyone in the world seems to

but people on twitter think I'm a "junior writer" for not hating the album so fucking cool

I like the new single:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3hjpNuvapQ

i don't even hate the record (and i like "strangers") but there just isn't a lot there imo. your review is great katherine

who cares about people on twitter. most of them are pretty stupid and/or blowing off steam about shit unrelated to what they're talking about.

how hard is WITNESS going to flop? is the cover's resemblance to BIONIC a portent?

she'll have her artpop without "do what you wnt"

Big novelty dance hits historically the territory of male djs, but Norwegian DJ Kamferdrops has produced - and she sings on - a cover, reworking of an old dansband tune. It is currently #1 in Sweden, should be a song of summer 17 there and in Norway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9L1w3hwLOU

https://www.girlcultfestival.com/

terrible name, decent lineup

Girl Cult? I assume its a festival started by R Kelly.

Short for "Girl Culture" apparently but yeah, I agree with Maura.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWdzL955qnI

a musician friend found this v depressing

https://pitchfork.com/features/article/uncovering-how-streaming-is-changing-the-sound-of-pop/

I just find it very unconvincing -- the thing about any "_____ is changing the sound of pop" argument is that almost anything can be made to fit the argument. slow tempos are a product of streaming because people want playlists with ~vibes~! fast tempos are a product of streaming because you've gotta get everything in under 30 seconds! or "it's important to write a lot of hooks," which has been brought out as a consequence of iTunes, festivals, the fast-paced album cycle (I read this exact piece about Rihanna's _Talk This Talk_ many times, in particular), probably pop radio, probably CD singles, etc. songwriters are going to play along because of course they are; you get more work (and more quotes in articles) by claiming you're an expert at your job than going ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

or the piece cites a Spotify press release about how it made "Waves" a hit in Europe; except the press release says the original "Waves" (sans Robin Schulz) was already a hit in the Netherlands until Ultra Music and Sony Music Entertainment (SME) signed them, and *that* made it a hit in Europe. which is, more or less, the usual way that songs become international hits. (the part about Spotify breaking it in the US is naturally going to be biased toward Spotify, given the source, and requires more research than I'm doing for a comment.)

(the things that aren't mentioned are ways streaming *actually* may be affecting pop -- larger albums, and more features.)

clicked out when i saw it citing the switched on pop podcast in opening paragraph

https://pitchfork.com/features/article/uncovering-how-mailchimp-is-changing-the-writing-on-pitchfork/

lmfaoooo

it's not exactly pop but obongjayar is pretty fuckin great

it's very 90s Bristol

Billie Eilish - Watch

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

probably the best Lorde song not written or performed by Lorde

she's pretty good! i like her EP

sigrid's new single is fabulous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fm7mll2qvg

New Madison Beer song "Tell It To My Face" contains a pretty shameless rip of "Vitamin C" by The Can:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCyl9GBlM-M

whoops "SAY It To My Face"

and they say poptimism is dead

(i like this, just being salty)

this project is deeply weird but it has quite a few good songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzLSmY7c9dY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4vUxVwb_G8

this album rules

i remember being very unimpressed by her music when she first got attention for having a weird channel but the new stuff is better. the shtick with the lyrics gets old fairly quickly though

nice catch on that madison beer btw

For those compiling your year-end lists, this playlist includes all the available tracks on this thread, organized roughly chronologically in order of mention:

ILM's 2017 Rolling Pop Thread Spotify Playlist

BTW, this is a gem that was on singles jukebox that needs more love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKxFS8L6AlQ

oh man that is gorgeous

right? it's the #2 single of the year, pointwise, from SJ. Would love to get a voting bloc to push it for the ilx 77.

it's really such an achingly beautiful song. it was getting me on the verge of tears even before i looked up what the lyrics mean.

read the blergs when it came up, completely forgot so thanks for the reminder :)
amazing track

.... man do i love the new rita ora song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksdAs4LBRq8

^ incredible song
been doing the rounds over here

first time hearing that Rita Ora song: "this is nice but those backing vocals are a bit Mumfordcore WAIT WHAT JUST HAPPENED" I wish not everything had to be a banger in 2017

she was utterly abysmal hosting America's Next Top Model too. I know it's so cliche to make "who is she" jokes about her rapid and unexplainable ascent to top-tier star but I can't understand why she hasn't had the career arc of eg Pixie Lott

i'm a little embarrassed to admit it but i actually prefer the rita ora song from earlier this year that ed sheeran wrote

I like the Rita Ora/Avicii song, it feels like a lost Robyn track.