rolling pop 2014

"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.

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

1. Sam Smith - "Stay With Me"
2. American Authors - "Best Day Of My Life"
3. Sia - "Chandelier"
4. Echosmith - "Cool Kids"

ilu some dude

^listen to this brad^

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.

Yeah I can't get on board with some of those picks; that Fergie song is horrible. And what's your gripe with "Shower"?

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.

9. Becky G - "Shower"

don't even know how to respond to this

i hate "stay with me" and "cool kids" so much that i basically stopped reading the list after that. i of course love "shower"

"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.

Yep

yeah. plus they just seem like these impossibly photogenic L.A. pod people who are singing about being outcasts because their label told them to be more like Lorde.

the song probably predates Lorde but you know what i mean.

Uptown Funk sounds like it could be a long lost track from the Breakin' soundtrack, or the B-side of "No Parking On the Dancefloor", love the backing singers' bass moves and the icy, paranoid synths rubbing up against those ebullient horns

echosmith is a bunch of siblings btw

"Uptown Funk" is like the best Song of the Summer to be inconveniently released in December.

Well given how stagnant the charts can be, there's always the chance that it'll still be around come summertime.

it's a summer hit down here!

Sorry, we're a bunch of dirty Northists.

I'm sold on Uptown Funk. #pathetic

echosmith is a bunch of siblings btw

― maura, Monday, December 8, 2014 12:41 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh i'm aware, that's part of the whole pod people vibe imo

"uptown girl" is appalling

lex will never silence our song of protest!

That new Becky G, "Can't Stop Dancin'", is gorgeous.
She takes that European "Waves" / Asaf Avidan sound and runs away with into what comes close to a "Waiting For Tonight" for the mid-2010s.

paramore vibes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw9iO3iCFOU

*ears perk up forever*

omg this is great

yeh really enjoying this

yeah, this is really making my new year's resolution of "pay more diligent attention to radio adds" pay off already

which format is adding it?

a few trickles on CHR (but the trickles are generally the interesting part of the list, better than "as predicted everyone still loves iggy azalea"

ctrl-f "Kate Boy" no hits

hmm

just discovered this song today (we're covering it on the jukebox tomorrow) and my god, it is gorgeous
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzFYmz2lfT4

i wonder if they used stunt feet in that starling glow video

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?