rolling pop 2014

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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. :(

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.

Starting hearing "Flawless" (remix?) on the radio now and I'm just I Do Not Want This. Word to Trent Reznor

Also if I never hear "Sky Full of Stars" that'd be pretty awesome

Vermillion is so so lovely
Some real gems of reviews on TSJ too

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..."

Yep exactly, and it so nearly becomes a different song so many times, and then for the better, retreats to where it was before

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)

hmmm i'm finding i like the song much more when i'm listening without watching the video

"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

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

i keep singing along to "break free" by ariana grande :/

more reality show castoff teen pop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAB5AC9yhY0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBHiubKR0R4

Raury - "Cigarette Song"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adU_Jwy6Ans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n2as9NM9d0

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"

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.

please, no more Toves, one is enough

ilx cared about tove styrke well before the new(er) one!

oh yeah the nick jonas record is wayyy nice

Yeah I wasn't expecting to like the Nick Jonas album this much.