i heard it and i like it but was not exactly blown away or anything
glad it's reaching ppl outside tsj tho (i think billboard wrote about it recently too) b/c at first i thought it would be one of those songs that everyone there loves that no one else ends up giving a damn about (like that random billy currington single from a few years ago lol)
― dyl, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 15:58 (nine years ago) link
hmmm i'm finding i like the song much more when i'm listening without watching the video
― dyl, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
"she came to give it to you" by usher just straight up lifts the melody of "just/dub be good to me"
which means it is fantastic, obv
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 26 September 2014 11:24 (nine years ago) link
but basically ever since purple rain i've been looking for a dance club like this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-93LzZM1y0
where live bands with conga drums and electric guitar players and killer vocalists do slinky r&b and club music that people get up and dance to. do places like this actually exist? i feel like music videos posit them as like, a thing, that exists in the world
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 26 September 2014 11:28 (nine years ago) link
i keep singing along to "break free" by ariana grande :/
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 16 October 2014 13:05 (nine years ago) link
more reality show castoff teen pop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAB5AC9yhY0
― dyl, Thursday, 16 October 2014 21:46 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBHiubKR0R4
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 28 October 2014 23:19 (nine years ago) link
Raury - "Cigarette Song"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adU_Jwy6Ans
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 5 November 2014 11:02 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n2as9NM9d0
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 12:39 (nine years ago) link
nick jonas is 4 for 4 with "wilderness" and "teacher" - on course to be an unexpected pop album of the year. they've really gone all out on the production huh? in a good way. for all the JT comparisons it's shaping up to be much more like jc chasez, he has the same slightly manic, overdone singing style (er, i mean that as a compliment, i think) - he seems to be going more for "ridiculous" than "smooth"
― lex pretend, Thursday, 6 November 2014 14:09 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zhwihAXMlI
The new Tove Styrke single might require a bit of sticking-with but it's very catchy. I saw her last night and her new material is clearly in a different milieu to her excellent first record but sounds pretty great.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Friday, 7 November 2014 15:08 (nine years ago) link
please, no more Toves, one is enough
― nakhchi little van (some dude), Friday, 7 November 2014 15:48 (nine years ago) link
ilx cared about tove styrke well before the new(er) one!
― dyl, Friday, 7 November 2014 15:56 (nine years ago) link
oh yeah the nick jonas record is wayyy nice
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 7 November 2014 20:55 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I wasn't expecting to like the Nick Jonas album this much.
― Greer, Saturday, 8 November 2014 01:37 (nine years ago) link
yeah, heard it all now and it's almost all superb. potential dickishness counteracted by self-aware goofiness, like there's no way he should get away with "jealous" really (for the random rhyming dictionary "hellish" as much as for the sentiment). (remix with tinashe is great too.) all the best songs are the ones we've heard already but that's nearly half the album
nice to hear angel haze kill it on "numb"
i advise staying far away from bonus track "closer" featuring mike posner, far far away
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 13:15 (nine years ago) link
probably deserves its own thread but oh well
i mean i'm enjoying my relisten so much i might make one
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23hWTGQBYRw
Just stumbled across Madi Diaz today and listened to the album Phantom. I feel like it's equal parts Red Taylor Swift and 1989 Taylor Swift and maybe a little bit s/t Paramore—all things that go over well around here.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
that's a lot of fun, i'll check the rest of the record out
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 21:33 (nine years ago) link
lol I knew that would be Brad-bait.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 21:35 (nine years ago) link
didn't know where else to post this, digging ithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuY4MSh1V-I
― he's not a gangsta, his real name's clarence (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 21:58 (nine years ago) link
can i just say how pleasantly surprised i've been to hear this all over the radio for the last couple of months?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoMzLLWNV1g
yes it's a pixel-perfect retread of 1995-era sabres of paradise style techno, celebratory, euphoric, "big room" AND I LOVE IT
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 24 November 2014 12:32 (nine years ago) link
new pitbull album is an absolute joy
― uberweiss, Monday, 24 November 2014 13:59 (nine years ago) link
Album Name:Globalization (2014)Artist:Pitbull
6. Sexy Beaches (feat. Sean Paul)7. Day Drinking (feat. Chris Brown)
i'm sold
― r|t|c, Monday, 24 November 2014 17:22 (nine years ago) link
that watermät track is very nice
― dyl, Monday, 24 November 2014 19:52 (nine years ago) link
i wanted to dislike this b/c i like romeo santos better but it is actually pretty decent, i like the 112 sample anyway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_z0BHsyN54
― dyl, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 06:37 (nine years ago) link
whoa whoa whoa whoa WHOA the pitbull/ne-yo song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUak2C_KEeU
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 22:08 (nine years ago) link
DISCO
i didn't even recognize ne-yo's voice at first :\
― dyl, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 22:16 (nine years ago) link
imo it's a fine anonymous house vocal
oooooooo
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 22:18 (nine years ago) link
really liking the new bruno mars & mark ronson thing *ducks* - unusually exuberant for bruno who i've always found to be dullsville
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Thursday, 27 November 2014 00:40 (nine years ago) link
it's pleasant, although I'm kinda waiting to whether inevitable ubiquity is kind to it. weird that it's the 2nd chart hit of 2014 to reference Michelle Pfeiffer (after Vance Joy's "Riptide").
― Murghan Troidor (some dude), Thursday, 27 November 2014 01:33 (nine years ago) link
Uptown Funk is a firecracker. I could imagine possibly getting sick of it if it reaches Get Lucky levels of overplay, but right now it's one of the only things I want to hear.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 27 November 2014 01:37 (nine years ago) link
Just from an arrangement/structure level, though, it's got a lot more going on than Get Lucky and I'm anticipating a different part of it each time.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 27 November 2014 01:38 (nine years ago) link
slightly annoyed that the pitbull album wasn't released in the summer. that plus "give me everything" level ubiquity would've meant i was PRIMED for it, now it just feels very odd to listen to
― lex pretend, Thursday, 27 November 2014 10:08 (nine years ago) link
Really like this Samantha Jade single, reminds me of Arianna Grande and Carly Rae Jepsen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up4R_-kpFtE
― boxedjoy, Friday, 28 November 2014 09:14 (nine years ago) link
yeah that's nice, and that is exactly what it sounds like
― dyl, Friday, 28 November 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
new becky g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NwzxGntDgs
― dyl, Friday, 5 December 2014 19:53 (nine years ago) link
"uptown funk" is structured like a lego sculpture. i love the sounds on it but it makes me think about how well-put-together jam & lewis's songs are in particular.
― maura, Sunday, 7 December 2014 19:29 (nine years ago) link
did my list of best/worst pop radio hits of the year: http://narrowcast.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-20-best-pop-radio-hits-of-2014.html
― some dude, Sunday, 7 December 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link
1. Sam Smith - "Stay With Me"2. American Authors - "Best Day Of My Life"3. Sia - "Chandelier"4. Echosmith - "Cool Kids"
ilu some dude
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 8 December 2014 02:37 (nine years ago) link
^listen to this brad^
― some dude, Monday, 8 December 2014 04:07 (nine years ago) link
It really says something about 2014 that a reggae song by Canadians is only maybe the 4th-most embarrassing thing to hit #1, but whatever, this song jams in spite of everything.
Sometimes I worry about you, some dude.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 8 December 2014 04:23 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I can't get on board with some of those picks; that Fergie song is horrible. And what's your gripe with "Shower"?
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Monday, 8 December 2014 05:07 (nine years ago) link
10. Aloe Blacc - "The Man"
How this isn't the worst single of any genre this year, much less only #10 in your own worst pop list is beyond my comprehension.
But I like "Chandelier," so wtf do I know.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 8 December 2014 05:10 (nine years ago) link
9. Becky G - "Shower"
don't even know how to respond to this
― uberweiss, Monday, 8 December 2014 05:47 (nine years ago) link
i hate "stay with me" and "cool kids" so much that i basically stopped reading the list after that. i of course love "shower"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 8 December 2014 06:42 (nine years ago) link
"Cool Kids" has all the elements right (pleasant voice, pretty instrumentation) except the lyrics, which are so lazy and flaccid as to render the entire song a dud.
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Monday, 8 December 2014 06:48 (nine years ago) link
Yep
― Tim F, Monday, 8 December 2014 07:24 (nine years ago) link