Maybe it’s the time of year, but this is such a geeky, studenty concept for a song that it’s pure enjoyment.
As the reviewers over on MusicOMH said, it’s hard to imagine two bands further apart than The Wombats and Joy Division, the later being such a dreary band that they didn’t rate with me at all back in the day.
Here at Unreality Music, Mika is our favourite Lebanese-born, of-questionable-sexuality singer. But this song wasn’t an instant hit with us. However, like all the best songs in pop history, we’re pleased to tell you that Happy Ending is a grower!
Taken from Life In Cartoon Motion, the song is noticeably downbeat compared to Mika’s other tunes, but he manages to inject a solemn beauty to the track that you might not expect from the otherwise bouncy singer.
I heard Kylie’s new single 2 Hearts on Radio 1 today. A shockingly old fashioned way to release music, Kylie gave it a ‘radio only’ release. There isn’t even a video on YouTube yet – what the hell’s that about?
Even more old fashioned – the only place I can find the video is on Kylie’s own website. It’s not even flash embedded, you’ve got to stream it in Windows Media or Realplayer. How long has she been away?
Firstly, Mr Charlie Simpson should be apologising for inflicting Busted on an unsuspecting world. But according to this latest single, we shouldn’t be expecting a heartfelt apology any time soon.
We Apologise For Nothing marks a new era for Fightstar – one where those old Busted comparisons are now meaningless and where his band seems to be gaining some credibility in it’s own right.
Here’s what’s currently ringing America’s bell folks: 17 year old DeAndre Ramone Way, otherwise known as Soulja Boy and his runaway hit Crank Dat.
All the buzz is focused around the rapper’s dancing style rather than the song itself. Is this guy damning himself to become the next Macarena?
Only a matter of time before that infectious iPod song made it into the charts, and this week Feist’s 1 2 3 4 is in the top 10 on both sides of the Atlantic.
It’s not the first time major exposure in an advert has brought on chart success (bizarrely, Nick Kamen has been mentioned to me twice this week!).
The BBC Radio chart blog has summed up the Scouting For Girls single very well by suggesting that there’s a new era of Britpop emerging:
There’s the Feeling, Kate Nash, the Hoosiers, Jack Penate, this lot, the Maccabees, that Mika fella (I know, move on)…and they’re all making upbeat, uptempo, quirky pop which is stuffed with pretty harmonies and summery joy.
It’s a well known fact that I got beef with 50 Cent, so I approach any single by the man with a healthy dose of skepticism.
And when the song in question starts with the man blathering about being ’sumin’ special’ and ‘unforgettable’, the bullshit radar goes off the map.
We smell a second hit for The Hoosiers with Goodbye Mr A. Following up fast on the success of Worried About Ray, they’ve given us another clever, upbeat song with a tongue in cheek video to match.
With their own brand of bouncy, fun guitar pop, The Hoosiers are going to have a broad appeal anyway. The video shows the guys kidnapping a superhero – the Mr A of the title – and then donning costumes themselves and getting up to some crime-fighting hijinx.
If you could draw a chart showing the quality of Gwen Stefani’s solo singles over time, it would start out pretty high only to end up sloping dramatically downward. And somewhere, a foot or two below the horizontal axis you’d find Now That You Got It.
When she first started doing solo stuff, Gwen was groundbreaking, quirky and fun. With this latest video, even she doesn’t seem to be convinced. She’s rehashing the same formula, but we’ve heard it all before: really dumb hooks and lyrics. She’s still trailing those damned Harajuku Girls around when they should have been dumped after the first album.
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