Anyone else finding it hard to get excited about music at the moment? For every decent track out there, there’s a moment of utter dirge. For every American Boy, there’s a Heartbeat.
One song I’m loving at the moment is Daddy-O by Wideboys and Shaznay Lewis. It’s a frantic dance track with Shaznay at her most annoyingly catchy - she really was the best thing in All Saints.
As for this week’s chart, it’s a hit and miss affair, so let’s get it started:
Praise be to Ronson! It wasn’t hard to spot the influence of Mark Ronson in Adele’s latest single, was it?
There’s all of Adele’s atmospheric moodiness in this track, but this time it’s married to an ambitious quasi-military snare drum, soaring strings and punctuated by clean sharp guitar lines.
The arrangement brings out the best in Adele’s voice as well. She’s on top form here, letting us see the full power of her voice.
You can’t keep Kanye out of the charts these days, can you? His latest, Flashing Lights, isn’t getting quite as much attention as his collaboration with Estelle, but it’s doing pretty well all the same.
Flashing Lights tackles the thorny issue of how famous folks manage to have affairs while they’re in the limelight. Basically, they can’t. And those flashing lights belong to the paparazzi that follow Kanye and his peers around everywhere.
This new phase of Natasha Bedingfield’s career is an interesting one. Seemingly she’s out to make it in the US of A in a big, big way.
Critics have picked up on this, and I’ve read more than a few comments that suggest Love Like This is targetted to hit a large market very quickly and make as much impact as possible. The inclusion of one-hit wonderboy Sean Kingston is a strange one. Yes, he’s had one massive single, but is he really a big name draw to partner with from a publicity standpoint? And does he really add anything to the song? (hint: the correct answer is no)
…and Estelle has the #1 position locked down for the third week in a row! American Boy is a pretty deserving Number 1 anyway, especially when you consider that only other worthwhile single - Chris Brown’s With You - seems to be sliding down the chart at the moment.
Let’s have a look at this week’s top ten singles…
Guess what? Our favourite 90’s boyband (excluding Take That) are back!
New Kids On The Block appeared on the Today show in America …well today, and revealed their plans for their new reunion album.
We reported back in January that NKOTB were planning to reform, but Danny Woods spoke out and refuted that rumour. We’d be calling them liars right about now, except that Donnie explains in the video that they were hoping to keep things under wraps until the new album was ready, but that the earlier leak forced them to come out and admit the reunion was on.
Watch the clip below:
Youtube may have removed the video last night, but today we were able to get our hands on the full version of Madonna’s new single ‘Four Minutes.’
Of course what has us most excited is the fact that the video features the gorgeous Justin Timberlake…
Check it out!
Whew. Strangest pop-related thing that happened me this week was Denial by the Sugababes came on the radio and I liked it before I realised what I was listening to. Guess that blows smoke all over my review!
Not a bad top ten this week. Most of the songs are actually listenable, even the Madonna/Justin Timberlake collaboration. Having said that, when two major stars release a single backed by Timbaland, surely the end result should be 10x more stunning than this?
Miss Leona Lewis should be celebrating in a big way today as Bleeding Love has hit the top of the US pop chart. According to the BBC, this makes her the first British female in over 20 years to do so.
I think a moment’s silence is called for. [Insert silence here]
Was Duffy’s caterwauling driving you up the walls too? Thankfully, Estelle has knocked her off the #1 spot this week, with a little help from her friend, Mr West. Just another reason to love Kanye.
In other news, the big names are still holding steady in the chart - Leona, OneRepublic, Nickelback. Alphabeat, unfortunately, slip out of the top ten this week. Darn.
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