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.
Consider this your polite introduction to King Of Conspiracy – a trio of Parisian punks who are invading the UK right now, and whose debut single Youth Against The Empire is released on 2nd March 2009.
We often overuse the word ‘energetic’ when we’re trying to describe bands, but when Youth Against The Empire started sputtering from my laptop speakers, all the excitement of the lean guitar riffing and French-accented vocals, ‘energetic’ was the first word to spring to my mind.
I met top UK vlogger Daveyboyz (aka David Bass) back in February 2008 when he was participating in BBC’s Upstaged. He’s been in touch to tell me about his latest project, and I just have to share it with you – he’s decided to dedicate his life to an as-yet-untapped niche: Heavy Metal and… Farming.
Ooo-arrr! I know it sounds dodgy, but check out his proof of concept video:
It’s only a full month after X Factor wound up, and JLS have finally signed with Epic. I’m actually very pleased for the boys – they were definitely another of my great hopes to win X Factor aside from Alexandra Burke.
Now, as long as Louis ‘let’s put some nice suits on you and give you an Osmonds song to sing’ Walsh doesn’t get his hands on them, their success seems certain.
In an unusual twist, one of my favourite bands from last year – Alphabeat – have split with their record label, EMI.
This is a brave move, especially when you consider they’re on the verge of recording the follow-up to the highly successful This Is Alphabeat.
The rumour mill went into overdrive, with most people suggesting that the band had been dropped by their record label. In a blog post clarifying their position, the band say it was the other way round:
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