Take That’s latest single Up All Night makes the always ill-advised move of giving Mark Owen lead vocal duties. Nothing against Marky, but it’s immediately obvious that Up All Night is this album’s Shine.
Therefore, I hate it.
Before all you housewives start shouting at your computer screens, hold on a minute. I’m generally a supporter of the Take That reunion. I’ve been to see them live twice. It’s great to hear all the old tunes again.
Chris Cornell partnering with Timbaland was the most unlikely musical collaboration ever. If your experience of Cornell is through Soundgarden or Audioslave, you are about to hear the boldest move of his career.
Now, if you’ve been wondering where Cornell’s been since Audioslave broke up, the video reveals all: he’s been brooding in clubs in Puerto Rico, Texas and New York. Observing women flirting on the dancefloor while their menfolk look on in frustration. Oh yes, and hanging out with hordes of line-dancing women.
Oooh – as I just read on PopJustice, girlband du jour The Saturdays are going to be releasing the Comic Relief single this year.
It’s going to be a cover of Depeche Mode’s Just Can’t Get Enough, which will fit in well with the 80’s revival and synth-heaviness of the contemporary charts. The PJ crew confidently predict this will be the group’s first ever #1 single, which will be an act of charity in more ways that one.
Whatcha Think About That is the third single from the Pussycat Dolls’ Doll Domination album.
It looks like the phenomenal return of the Pussycat Dolls is going to continue uninterrupted for quite some time. I’m slightly surprised to be honest, but the Dolls managed to reclaim the charts almost effortlessly.
Chart watchers will be pleased to know it’s safe to come out now – Alexandra Burke and Leona Lewis have left the top 10.
Nothing against those two wonderful vocalists, of course, just that the whole Christmas period is drenched in X Factor generated schmaltz. I lose all faith in popular music when shows like X Factor dominate the charts. Oh look, you got a number one after being promoted for 13 weeks on primetime television! Hallelujah indeed.
We’re no strangers to Daniel Merriweather here on the music blog, but we’re surprised that he hasn’t broken through by now. It looked likely back in 2007 when he worked with Mark Ronson on Stop Me.
Change has an almost hip-hop feel to it, especially in the little piano line which feels familiar from some bygone hip-hop track I’ve heard before. Merriweather’s voice is on fine form with a nice – if forgettable – cameo from rapper Wale.
It’s interesting to note when writing this particular single review that Kelly Clarkson had a brief career as a vacuum cleaner salesperson. You have to wonder if she wrote My Life Would Suck Without You with her old job in mind…
After all the rumours that Kelly was heading for a career in country music, it’s refreshing to see that she’s actually returned to her musical roots. My Life Would Suck is a slab of power pop/rock that many reviewers are comparing to classic Clarkson songs like Since U Been Gone.
Brandon Flowers is back with another of those ‘curious’ jackets with feathers on the shoulders and another song to sing.
The latest Killers single is called Spaceman, and is very much in the same synth-heavy vein as Human was, but is a little more conventional. It’s still really sonically dense, as it packs in a pulsating verse and chorus, the aforementioned synths and some distorted guitar to glue the whole thing together.
As recently as November of last year, people were starting to sing the praises of Cleveland, Ohio’s latest star rapper – Kid Cudi. OK, his real name’s the slightly less glamorous Scott Mescudi.
He’s making big waves with the Crookers remix of his debut single, Day N Nite. And he’s under the wing of an Unreality Music favourite, Kanye West.
Here’s a bunch of cool music-related blog posts I’ve come across recently.
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