oh damn, this cher lloyd record. thanks lex!
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 3 July 2014 17:54 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 3 July 2014 18:17 (nine years ago) link
"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
― lex pretend, Thursday, 3 July 2014 18:23 (nine years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Thursday, 3 July 2014 18:25 (nine years ago) link
"Killin' It" feels to me like the song off the new one that in a more ideal world would be a big hit
― some dude, Thursday, 3 July 2014 18:25 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 3 July 2014 18:28 (nine years ago) link
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
― ginuwine's cousin (monotony), Thursday, 3 July 2014 21:33 (nine years ago) link
I really liked her EP from last year, and here's something new...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xai1-qT4uA
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 July 2014 01:32 (nine years ago) link
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
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 5 July 2014 04:43 (nine years ago) link
So much better than the original.
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Saturday, 5 July 2014 06:22 (nine years ago) link
i love that remix thank u breastcrawl
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 5 July 2014 16:04 (nine years ago) link
"dirty love" does not redeem itself tbh
"dirty love" totally my favorite song on the record ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 5 July 2014 16:05 (nine years ago) link
"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
― uberweiss, Sunday, 6 July 2014 00:35 (nine years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 24 July 2014 13:48 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMMNrth246k
― dyl, Sunday, 27 July 2014 17:40 (nine years ago) link
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
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 14:58 (nine years ago) link
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!!"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 15:02 (nine years ago) link
in love with "rather be"
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Saturday, 2 August 2014 05:09 (nine years ago) link
it is so good
― dyl, Saturday, 2 August 2014 05:53 (nine years ago) link
i know ryan tedder is generally a cancer but i'm pretty into the ella henderson single.
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Saturday, 2 August 2014 08:14 (nine years ago) link
ok i just realized that 90% of what i love about "rather be" is that the violin sounds like a PS1-era JRPG song
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Saturday, 2 August 2014 17:41 (nine years ago) link
New 'Music Go Music' (side project of Bodies of Water) album is a return to formhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F5pI1yX0tcForm being great, new tracks that owe _a lot_ to ABBA
Choice favs 'Inferno' and 'Tell Me How it Feels'
― nxd, Thursday, 21 August 2014 08:18 (nine years ago) link
'offical'
― dyl, Thursday, 21 August 2014 18:24 (nine years ago) link
Rhonda - camera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ9PtC8bhEM
― meisenfek, Friday, 5 September 2014 13:35 (nine years ago) link
Kill it. Just another stupid white girl trying to sing like Billie Holiday.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 5 September 2014 13:46 (nine years ago) link
tiki tiki bom bom
― meisenfek, Friday, 5 September 2014 15:09 (nine years ago) link
http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100
― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 September 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
I echo the blank expressions in that video.
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Friday, 5 September 2014 22:48 (nine years ago) link
this is heartbreaking:
G.R.L.'s Simone Battle, dead at 25.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/29093310
― sean gramophone, Sunday, 7 September 2014 18:18 (nine years ago) link
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 :(
― uberweiss, Sunday, 7 September 2014 19:50 (nine years ago) link
oh wow that is shocking :(
― dyl, Sunday, 7 September 2014 22:45 (nine years ago) link
after the car accident that killed two members of K-pop act Ladies' Code, it's been a horrible week for girl groups. :(
― Roz, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 07:10 (nine years ago) link
on another note, are we talking about this song anywhere? it's perfect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soptpaMkJ34
I don't think it's been mentioned here yet but there was rapturous praise on TSJ.
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 07:17 (nine years ago) link
Starting hearing "Flawless" (remix?) on the radio now and I'm just I Do Not Want This. Word to Trent Reznor
― nova, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 07:18 (nine years ago) link
Also if I never hear "Sky Full of Stars" that'd be pretty awesome
― nova, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 07:19 (nine years ago) link
Vermillion is so so lovelySome real gems of reviews on TSJ too
― nxd, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 08:30 (nine years ago) link
i just checked TSJ and oh it's their highest scoring single of the year so far. surprised it hadn't been mentioned here before.
it really is gorgeous and kinda devastating - I don't live in the city anymore but it reminds me of when I did. when the beat fades out and it's just the piano and her voice singing "I love these streets..."
― Roz, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 14:57 (nine years ago) link
Yep exactly, and it so nearly becomes a different song so many times, and then for the better, retreats to where it was before
― nxd, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 15:02 (nine years ago) link
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