rolling pop 2014

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.

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

probably deserves its own thread but oh well

i mean i'm enjoying my relisten so much i might make one

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.

that's a lot of fun, i'll check the rest of the record out

lol I knew that would be Brad-bait.

didn't know where else to post this, digging it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuY4MSh1V-I

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

new pitbull album is an absolute joy

Album Name:Globalization (2014)
Artist:Pitbull

6. Sexy Beaches (feat. Sean Paul)
7. Day Drinking (feat. Chris Brown)

i'm sold

that watermät track is very nice

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

whoa whoa whoa whoa WHOA the pitbull/ne-yo song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUak2C_KEeU

DISCO

i didn't even recognize ne-yo's voice at first :\

imo it's a fine anonymous house vocal

oooooooo

really liking the new bruno mars & mark ronson thing *ducks* - unusually exuberant for bruno who i've always found to be dullsville

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").

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.

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.

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

Really like this Samantha Jade single, reminds me of Arianna Grande and Carly Rae Jepsen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up4R_-kpFtE

yeah that's nice, and that is exactly what it sounds like