rolling pop 2014

Big love for the Hannah Diamond stuffs from here.

https://soundcloud.com/rynweaver/ryn-weaver-octahate

loads of heavyweights assisted on this one

http://www.stereogum.com/1688810/ryn-weaver-octahate/mp3s/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX5zLcg47iI

Everything tells me I should hate this, but I kinda...don't?

guys i cannot stop giggling whenever "one more day (stay with me)" by example comes on

i imagine him in a sequined tuxedo, a single white rose in one hand, flanked by italian television models, a stretch grand piano off to one side, a very long white silk scarf around his neck being blown sideways by a powerful off-stage fan, hen parties celebrating a third marriage going absolutely crazy in the seats below

Another lesson learned
Another page is turned
Give in to your desire
Say goodbye or play with fire
Play with fire - you'll get burned!

hahaha CHRISTOPHER what the fuck Denmark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50-_oTkmF5I

i know y'all have been patiently awaiting the inimitable becky g's video for "shower"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8I-7Wk_Vbc

love this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxRQNO8vg2Y

MAYBE ON YOUR HONEYMOON
YOU'LL THINK OF ME

I stuck with it, but I was very close to saying "oh fuck this noise" when it started with ukulele strums.

fyi the secret best pop album of 2014 is cher lloyd's second album

that becky g song is great - and i LOVE the cher lloyd album - i wish more people were talking about it / buying it

Yeah it's a great album. Think it's actually getting a UK release this month but sadly it's going to bomb completely.

yeah i wasn't at all sure after the first couple of singles that this was the direction i wanted from her but it's all come together on the album in such a brilliant, concise way. and it's such a volte-face from the debut, i am HERE for dramatic emo power-ballad cher lloyd, to the extent that the token bratty party songs are prob the weakest moment ("m.f.p.o.t.y." redeems itself when it becomes apparent cher's idea of the best party ever = telling boys to fuck off; "dirty love" does not redeem itself tbh). "human" is probably my favourite. HUMAN, HUMAN, HUMAN AFTER AAAAALLLLLL

so sad that it's going to bomb everywhere but i always feared this would happen, "want u back" smashing had such a one-hit-wonder bubblegum novelty feel to it and the idiot british public hate her too much. i wonder where her career goes from here.

it's sort of weird how, after stanning for her on the x factor, she's come out with two wildly different albums that have enabled me to continue to do so, yet if you just described their styles to me at the time i'd have been v disheartened.

I liked m.f.p.o.t.y. when it was actually called "keep it in your pants" (someone on a cher lloyd forum went through ASCAP registrations) and not, I assume, awkwardly grafted onto some other hook

yeah Cher Lloyd album is good. pretty crazy that its release has been so troubled that it somehow ended up coming out in America before the UK. the (great) song she did with Demi Lovato is picking up on radio here, so she's got that going for her at least.

oh! i forgot about that, the highlight of demi's underwhelming last album

pretty sure cher lloyd's team gave up on the uk market as a lost cause even before "want u back" smashed - it wasn't a hit here, she has no profile except as a punchline/xfactor hate figure, mostly due to tabloid bigotry mostly re: class

oh damn, this cher lloyd record. thanks lex!

Very happy to see such a good reaction for the Cher Lloyd album here. I know the debut had some fans on here but I think this album deserves even more attention. Bind Your Love is my favourite and sounds like the obvious hit to me but if I Wish and Sirens didn't do anything anywhere is there anything she could do to get a hit?

It's very strange what happened with her in the UK. the album sold pretty well but they seemed to give up on by the third single. Seems strange now that Swagger Jagger went to number one and six months later Want U Back didn't even make the top twenty. I Still think they screwed up not putting Superhero out as a single at any point. I know a lot of people disliked her on the show and when the first single came out but she did seem to have a big fan base. Sadly they seemed to have moved on despite her album being great.

"swagger jagger" was the nail in the coffin tbh. prob got to no 1 off vague residual xfactor nostalgia or however literally everything that programme breathes on gets to no 1, was it a slow chart week as well? but it was basically a joke song and turned her into a joke. could've been salvaged if they'd really tried but america came a-calling. americans will have to shed light on why everything post-"want u back" has flopped

and yeah "superhero" was that album's great lost single

btw we should be talking about the nicole scherzinger single more, best thing terius has done in years

"Killin' It" feels to me like the song off the new one that in a more ideal world would be a big hit

xp

Think Swagger Jagger was quite a low selling number one. Wonder how she views that song now? I just assumed that was forced into releasing that against her will but maybe she loved it too. I have a feeling she probably doesn't now.

Pop songs these days seem fixated on self-help messages or at least conveying the positive or our best sides - it's somewhat refreshing, if alarming, to her Cher Lloyd come out with stuff like "I am tired, I'm growing older, I'm getting weaker everyday"

i think i like the last song the most - sounds like rachel stevens

I really liked her EP from last year, and here's something new...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xai1-qT4uA

Talking about Rita Ora: the Switch Remix of "I Will Never Let You Down" is just yummy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86mRsbXab-0

So much better than the original.

i love that remix thank u breastcrawl

"dirty love" does not redeem itself tbh

"dirty love" totally my favorite song on the record ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"sweet despair" is so dramatic and amazing. GO ON PUT THE KNIFE IN.

and hell yeah "dirty love" is so fucking good. it has such a classic max martin drug effect. GO AHEAD BE A CAAAVEMAN <3

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/07/21/_rude_by_magic_is_the_no_1_song_on_billboard_s_hot_100_why_video.html

This is #1 in the US...oh my

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMMNrth246k

Not quite bad enough to put in the "Worst of 2014" thread or at least not in comparison to the stuff that posted there yesterday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eKvYQxDUVk

just me or is the whispering in "problem" w/iggy/ariana grande super creepy?? "i got one less problem withoutcha!!" it's like, "i'm comin to kill you bitch! lock your windows!!"

in love with "rather be"

it is so good

i know ryan tedder is generally a cancer but i'm pretty into the ella henderson single.

ok i just realized that 90% of what i love about "rather be" is that the violin sounds like a PS1-era JRPG song

New 'Music Go Music' (side project of Bodies of Water) album is a return to form
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F5pI1yX0tc
Form being great, new tracks that owe _a lot_ to ABBA

Choice favs 'Inferno' and 'Tell Me How it Feels'

'offical'

Rhonda - camera

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ9PtC8bhEM

Kill it. Just another stupid white girl trying to sing like Billie Holiday.

tiki tiki bom bom

http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100

I echo the blank expressions in that video.

this is heartbreaking:

G.R.L.'s Simone Battle, dead at 25.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/29093310

it's so sad

grl have released three fucking perfect songs this year. "show me what you got", "ugly heart" and "rewind". they have such a drug effect. the former is still probs my favourite of the year. so joyous. and now when i listen to it it'll be with a tinge of sadness :(

oh wow that is shocking :(

after the car accident that killed two members of K-pop act Ladies' Code, it's been a horrible week for girl groups. :(

i'm halfway into that christine and the queens record and it's really really good. the song "half ladies" interpolates the chorus of kanye's "heartless"

Yeah, this is a great album. I was into her ep from last year, but I'd lost track of her this year until a few weeks ago when I heard this.

new crj single "i really like you" coming soon i'm hyperventilating

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Carly me, maybe? Definitely!

omg yeeeeesss

andy bull, an aussie who makes gloriously mournful electropop, put out a full-length this year (his track 'baby i am nobody now' was in my 2013 top 10). this track is really nice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qIQLQEvsrg

^^Love this.

Well it's not the new CRJ single, but it's still Call Me Maybe related...

I'm so sorry.

Rhythm is a dancer / I need a companion / Girl, I guess that must be you

Gee thanks?