Yes, I realise that Lady Gaga’s debut is long-since released, number one-d and on its way down the charts again. But I never reviewed it, and now I feel bad :(
You see, over the past fortnight, I’ve totally fallen in love with Just Dance. From Lady G’s rallying call of “red wi-ine” at the start to the brilliant lyric that is “I love this record baby, but I can’t see straight anymore”.
Is it an anthem? I’m beginning to suspect it it.
Gives You Hell is one of those almost novelty rock tunes that surfaces every once in a while, like Nickelback’s Rock Star or the all-time classic Pretty Fly (For A White Guy).
There’s the comedy featuring frontman Tyson Ritter playing dual roles of rebel and geek neighbours. The pair antagonize one another throughout the video, until a bout of suburban wife-swapping seems to solve their quarrel. Hooray for wife-swapping!
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.
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.
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.
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.
OK, here’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for – a listen to U2’s new single, Get On Your Boots.
It’s the first single from No Line On The Horizon (which we talked about earlier), and it’s beyond all my expectations. It’s described as a “blazing, fuzzed-out rocker that picks up where "Vertigo" left off.”
More importantly, the lyrics show that Bono can have a laugh at himself, when he sings “I don’t wanna talk about wars between nations”. In fact, the basic thrust of Get On Your Boots is about just having some fun.
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