https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyASdjZE0R0
chainsmokers ft. rozes - roses
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Saturday, 6 February 2016 19:23 (eight years ago) link
lex otm, "something new" is actually pretty interesting until chris brown mangles one of my favorite vocal melodies ever
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Saturday, 6 February 2016 19:28 (eight years ago) link
new uptempo Dua Lipa track, Last Dance
Dua Lipa - Last Dance (Official Audio)https://youtu.be/f3HZ64dnRBY
spotify:https://open.spotify.com/track/5VgVIhrH8TblQ5QRw7ILkn
― djmartian, Tuesday, 9 February 2016 21:55 (eight years ago) link
the breezy synths on this track are reminiscent of Grace Mitchell - Jitter
Delaire - Don't Movehttps://soundcloud.com/delaire-music/dont-move
spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/6f7aRSMx9zGszGUFksFUG0
― djmartian, Friday, 12 February 2016 21:01 (eight years ago) link
electronic pop from Chelsea Lankes, Texas artist now based in LA
strong upfront vocal style
Chelsea Lankes - Bullet
soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/chelsealankes/bullet
spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/11gyr8CHS1SxPUtOOmtwec
― djmartian, Friday, 12 February 2016 23:21 (eight years ago) link
bombastic uptempo pop from NYC duo Cardiknox
Cardiknox - Wild Child
soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/cardiknox/wild-child-1spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/1PZct6J4kz27hyr1VptRvx
― djmartian, Sunday, 21 February 2016 19:40 (eight years ago) link
Playlist updated... slow winter for Pop discussion!
ILM's Rolling Pop Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Friday, 26 February 2016 20:50 (eight years ago) link
uptempo rhythmic pop from Norwegian artist, Julie Bergan
Julie Bergan - I Kinda Like Ithttps://open.spotify.com/track/5vrv1dNfzfIm2goUCCKYbt
― djmartian, Friday, 26 February 2016 22:21 (eight years ago) link
London based, Australian (Originally from Melbourne) pop artist, Chiara Hunter
Funky Pop riyl Wendy & Lisa, Sheila E, Neneh Cherry
2 tracks from Strange Relationships ep released February 12th - powerful vocals
Chiara Hunter - Strange Relationshipshttps://soundcloud.com/chiarahunter/strange-relationshipshttps://open.spotify.com/track/0kHt4DkWA9tnRY6mjxghMs
Chiara Hunter - War feat. Gifted Gabhttps://soundcloud.com/chiarahunter/chiarahunter-war-feat-giftedgabhttps://open.spotify.com/track/4dM3JMacohwvNVJW3Qcr9l
― djmartian, Sunday, 28 February 2016 19:39 (eight years ago) link
this is such a great pop track
part Years & Years / part Human League with Jam & Lewis
Florio - I Want Youhttps://soundcloud.com/iamflorio/want-you
described by Glenn McDonald as "indietronic channeling of old disco-pop/freestyle energies." on the New & Noteworthy thread recently
― djmartian, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 14:03 (eight years ago) link
So *this* is what other people are hearing in Years & Years! Great track.
― pitchforkian at best (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 15:12 (eight years ago) link
this sounds like a future Rinse FM dance-pop banger playlist track:
RUGGED ft Michele Wylen - Bad Boi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuL2zv2HFfs
spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/69UFP1wOA0VFZllQDsET0x
parts of this track have got the trendy deep tech shuffling / cuttin shapes groove
― djmartian, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 22:48 (eight years ago) link
addictive euphoric Rave Pop from Scottish artist, HQFU (Sarah J. Stanley, aka HQFU)
bleeps, rave stabs, an addictive emotional vocal style, sweetness but with a dark poppy edge
HQFU - Good Reason
link only available via:http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/new-music/song-of-the-day/hqfu-good-reason
released April 1st
"Good Reason" heads firmly back to the early 90s when the titans of the dance scene TTF and QFX ruled with glow sticks raised firmly aloft. While that music was euphoric, HQFU adds a grimy and dark edge as sharp staccato beats and Stanley's menacingly muffled vocal - liberally sprinkled with cuss words - cut across the melodic squelches and bleeps, hitting stunning crescendo after crescendo across the track's incredible five minutes.
"Good Reason" is out 1 April and HQFU's self-titled debut album follows on 8 April.
http://hqfu.bandcamp.com/album/hqfu
― djmartian, Wednesday, 16 March 2016 21:43 (eight years ago) link
Annabel Jones from London
strong vocal flow on this track
Annabel Jones - IOUhttps://soundcloud.com/okannabel/iouhttps://open.spotify.com/track/37hr304EeFefwdyxmS8YXh
and a remixed version
Annabel Jones - IOU (AObeats Remix)https://soundcloud.com/aokamura/iou-aobeats-remix
― djmartian, Thursday, 17 March 2016 23:21 (eight years ago) link
I am really into the Alex Newell EP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idzP6kFv3NQ
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 19 March 2016 15:17 (eight years ago) link
That Florio track upthread is good shit!
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 19 March 2016 15:19 (eight years ago) link
This might fall on deaf ears, quite literally because it's a Dutch-language track, but I'm curious to know what people think of it. In the course of last year I've fallen hard for both producer Boaz v/d Beatz's sound and singer/rapper Ronnie Flex's voice, melodies and lyrics. I loved "Niemand" (posted it last year, and even voted for it in the EOY tracks), but follow-up "Wij Zijn Altijd" is even better, I think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnXRvaCXFKk
Ronnie Flex, "Wij Zijn Altijd"
― breastcrawl, Monday, 21 March 2016 22:48 (eight years ago) link
This is a very nice song from Nick Jonas with Tove Lo and I can't stop but think that Zayn would have done something way better if he had followed this kind of path instead of choosing the alt-r&b realm, for which he doesn't seem really well suited/doesn't know how to work within it
https://youtu.be/XgJFqVvb2Ws
― Nourry, Sunday, 27 March 2016 01:04 (eight years ago) link
Jonas is a total bore. I don't get all the love that he's suddenly getting from some pop fans.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Sunday, 27 March 2016 03:00 (eight years ago) link
"space is just a word made up by someone who's afraid of getting close" is a pretty terrible chorus. i always rooted for Nick but he's really squandered his momentum with everything he's done since "Jealous," and Joe really stole his thunder with the DNCE song.
― some dude, Sunday, 27 March 2016 11:30 (eight years ago) link
I confess i didnt payed any attention to the words he was singing, only to the melody/production/etc. "it's my righ to be hellish" wasn't also any good. But I enjoyed the vibe of this one.Never heard DNCE, are they ok?
― Nourry, Sunday, 27 March 2016 11:55 (eight years ago) link
"Cake By The Ocean" is an extremely silly song that at some point after a few months became irresistible to me/America
― some dude, Sunday, 27 March 2016 12:03 (eight years ago) link
Danish pop artist Soleima, with an addictive chilled pop track
Soleima - Once Washttps://soundcloud.com/soleima-1/once-washttps://open.spotify.com/track/6iGlUD0U3X3nB3Nu5yMfNG
― djmartian, Sunday, 27 March 2016 19:54 (eight years ago) link
Playlist updated through end of March:
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 27 March 2016 21:09 (eight years ago) link
Man, if the lineup of my local iHeart top-40 stalwart's spring show isn't a sign that pop is in crisis...
HalseyFlo RidaIggy AzaleaNellyThe ChainsmokersCharlie PuthTroye SivanMike PosnerDayaBebe RexhaShawn HookMelanie Martinez
Melanie Martinez is quite good live and I like the Shawn Hook single okay, but what a pile of nothing. At least last year had Derulo.
― maura, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 13:23 (eight years ago) link
For a while I kept confusing Shawn Hook with Shawn Mendes, except I was under the impression that Shawn Hook had yet to have a hit outside of Canada. And the song that I was most familiar with of his was Million Ways and not Sound of Your Heart.Also I just learned that Shawn Hook is 14 years older than Shawn Mendes.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 13:40 (eight years ago) link
he's the third-oldest person on the bill.
― maura, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 14:09 (eight years ago) link
new Broods track, a more forced radio friendly maximalist sound, Broods have lost something (dynamics, atmosphere, flow) with this new direction
Broods - Freehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDsxtBVLyss
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Vla5Oc0aCBIY9HPFXv7lF
― djmartian, Friday, 1 April 2016 12:39 (eight years ago) link
Hmm, I like that new Broods song pretty well, actually.
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 2 April 2016 02:24 (eight years ago) link
pop artist from Pristina, Kosovo, Era Istrefi
Era Istrefi is Kosovo Albanian, this track is sung mainly in Gheg Albanian
the coolest video of the year, filmed in the icy winter
Era Istrefi - Bonbon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cedoBlUvBlI
spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/3Uz8ZcQdlOF2qE6q1rcVpw
more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Era_Istrefi
― djmartian, Saturday, 2 April 2016 19:31 (eight years ago) link
So this song just popped up as #2 on Spotify's Global Viral 50 chart, which is... weird since it's on my friend's independent label (it's also Maya Vik's label), he just signed them and I haven't seen any real promotion for it anywhere?
Anyway, it's a nice, breezy pop song and I like it a lot so I'm posting it in here in the hope that it'll somehow grow bigger, lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR1jnsOpphs
https://soundcloud.com/oslo/kappekoff-all-day-long-1https://open.spotify.com/track/7BSROePF8jz3tVHbafS2P9
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 8 April 2016 17:14 (eight years ago) link
That Kappekoff song was on Fresh Finds, both the main list and the Hiptronix one.
spotify:user:spotify:playlist:3rgsDhGHZxZ9sB9DQWQfufspotify:user:spotify:playlist:6tSPShkHtxVL8fWtJqxe7Z
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 8 April 2016 22:44 (eight years ago) link
Zara Larsson's had three songs on the UK top 10 in 2016. Two right now. On the way to her first Billboard top 10.
― abcfsk, Sunday, 17 April 2016 19:32 (eight years ago) link
This should appeal to the CRJ fans:
Christie & the Dream Beats - Wasn't My Faulthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoRdIPyaAU8
― Unyielding Dispair Foundation Repair, LLC (Sanpaku), Monday, 25 April 2016 00:58 (eight years ago) link
I know absolutely nothing about this artist (thus far) except that she's Latvian and she sounds like PC Music if they didn't suck in concept and execution:
https://soundcloud.com/janahermann/jana-hermann-kults-2016
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 25 April 2016 03:27 (eight years ago) link
Playlist updated through end of April.
That list Maura posted is pretty dire.
― ulysses, Saturday, 30 April 2016 17:31 (eight years ago) link
i like the new Alicia Keys songhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YwHRTCyrEo
― Spottie, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 19:22 (seven years ago) link
i do too!
meanwhile justin timberlake's new single sounds like a second-tier derulo cut
― dyl, Saturday, 7 May 2016 17:05 (seven years ago) link
new veronica maggio album! this song is my favorite so far
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l58EfkZm1l0
― maura, Saturday, 7 May 2016 18:47 (seven years ago) link
This was already posted in the Charli XCX thread but I'm sharing it here cause it's ace!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w08FnrmqTg
― daavid, Friday, 13 May 2016 19:33 (seven years ago) link
the fifth harmony album is really great! gosh between this and ariana it's so good to hear pop albums that feel effortless and natural rather than overthought/slightly desperate positioning
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:29 (seven years ago) link
That's good to hear. I loved the last one too
― art baengels (monotony), Friday, 27 May 2016 07:17 (seven years ago) link
thought the last was a bit clunky as an album, the difference seems pretty similar to the difference between the last two ariana albums
tropical house really suits them, "the life" is total dumblonde, it's so relaxed and breezy throughout
texts in the morning are a pretty low bar for a love unlike any other you've had before though, imo
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Friday, 27 May 2016 09:53 (seven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/arts/music/ariana-grande-fifth-harmony-dangerous-woman-727.html?ref=topics&_r=0
Part of Jon Caramanica's take on the pop chart world and how musicians adjust
But what’s striking about these albums is how gently they treat their stars, as if they were fragile artifacts in need of safe shipping. In the past, each act has delivered memorable singing, but something deadening is at play on these records, which reflect a pop universe not much interested in displays of vocal flamboyance.
Pop, as ever, is struggling to identify its center — is it dance-music-centric wallops and bloops? Melodic post-hip-hop rap-singing? Ms. Grande, a boisterous soul singer by disposition, has never been a neat pop fit, but on previous albums has found ways to let her huge voice predominate. On “Dangerous Woman,” though, she’s curiously muted — several of the songs are strong, but they rely on her gifts less. Fifth Harmony’s album, especially, reflects a group of impressive singers fighting against technology and algorithms designed to flatten them into a homogenized whole. Much of the time, they are reduced to rhythmic components, serving up unmemorable lyrics at quick tempos.
In small part, that’s the result of the spread of tropical house, one of the most anodyne branches of dance music, into the pop mainstream over the past two years. (Kygo, a titan on streaming services, with a feather-light sound, contributed production to two songs on Fifth Harmony’s album.) Also, R&B has had diminishing influence over the sound of pop, as it’s been subsumed into hip-hop, meaning that singers inclined toward flash and power have found themselves stymied at every turn.
Add to this one additional recent phenomenon: the resurgence of lite-reggae on the pop charts, whether in the form of the Felix Jaehn tropical house remix of OMI’s “Cheerleader” last year, or the cloying, banal lovers-rock of “Rude,” by the Canadian band Magic!, the year before. In each case, the source genre is denuded, reduced to an unobtrusive lilt — reggae as signifier, not engine.
This isn’t novel, alas. ...
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 14:15 (seven years ago) link
weird piece
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 31 May 2016 14:34 (seven years ago) link
Especially weitd that he doesn't mention that there's actually a Vybz Kartel cover version on the Fifth Harmony album.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 31 May 2016 15:59 (seven years ago) link
also a pretty lame watered down interpolation of Mad Cobra's "Flex"
― some dude, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 16:32 (seven years ago) link
if i had time i would start a thread about the fifth harmony album, it's that good, but in the meantime i just want to make sure no one sleeps on the bonus tracks, esp "big bad wolf" and "dope"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cta9p7HgfAU
― the hallouminati (lex pretend), Thursday, 16 June 2016 12:13 (seven years ago) link
glad fergie has come back w/ something a bit more abrasive and audacious this time around
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsUWK-fixiA
― dyl, Saturday, 2 July 2016 07:13 (seven years ago) link
I like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRUt3FllRm8
Kossisko - "Hard"
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 7 July 2016 01:06 (seven years ago) link
Ok i never saw this the first time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBDNvlvR8vA
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 29 July 2016 11:40 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GL9JoH4Sws
surprised no one's talking about this, seems like total ILX-bait. tim f, lex?
― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Monday, 22 August 2016 01:20 (seven years ago) link
it's extremely okay. never minded hearing it when it was on radio 24/7 but was never overjoyed either.
― Best Beloved Trump-Pence (some dude), Monday, 22 August 2016 01:30 (seven years ago) link
the chorus feels just a touuuuuch lazy but those harmonies at the end are pretty tight
― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Monday, 22 August 2016 01:57 (seven years ago) link
it was discussed some on Rolling Worst Songs, what I said then: "I suppose it was inevitable that the "sharing economy" propagandic bullshit would make its way, however loosely, into song concepts. can't find a real job, ladies? don't worry, you can spend your time cheerily sexting your boyfriend, who has retconned "Bo$$"
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 22 August 2016 01:58 (seven years ago) link
fair criticism, but at least that song sounds semi-fun (despite repeating "work" relentlessly lol) in a year when most big pop albums seem...not all that fun? (i like a couple of em a lot, but still.)
― dc, Monday, 22 August 2016 22:00 (seven years ago) link
the song is specifically about someone who works the night shift, but never let a close reading get in the way of a blurb that writes itself
anyway, i fux with this (also old) sia/sean paul song too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYh-n7EOtMA
― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 16:01 (seven years ago) link
i do not fux with that
"work from home" is okay. rugrats-theme mustard.
― dyl, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 16:54 (seven years ago) link
ha! that's a great description
― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 17:01 (seven years ago) link
i'm into "work from home" even though as a freelancer i find working from home an extremely unsexy metaphor, it's def rugrats mustard but it's never not enjoyable either
the album is excellent, surprisingly
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 17:35 (seven years ago) link
have we really not talked about "work from home" on ilx???
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 17:36 (seven years ago) link
give me "not all that fun" over queasy forced fun every day
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 00:38 (seven years ago) link
if we're talking about like that timberlake song for example, then yeah def
― dc, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 02:36 (seven years ago) link
that is an example definitely, "work from home" very much so
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 02:51 (seven years ago) link
I do think it's interesting that a lot of songs right now have what could be seen as propagandistic choruses - "Work," the repetition of the first word in "Work From Home," Daya's "Sit Still Look Pretty," heck even "No" - especially in the age of excruciatingly narrow playlists
where are my THEY LIVE earbuds eh
― maura, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 10:38 (seven years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/strangetown-records/tired-of-love
pretty good, though i'm not sure about the farting synths at the end
― afriendlypioneer, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 15:04 (seven years ago) link
now that i've been reminded of fifth harmony i would like to say that the pre-chorus (as the pop industryites call it now) to "flex" is so gorgeous that i'm mad it wasn't written into a better song
― dyl, Thursday, 25 August 2016 07:40 (seven years ago) link
Playlist is updated.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 25 August 2016 14:28 (seven years ago) link
The Petite Meller album is a lot of fun (and very good).
Love the fact that batshit crazy videos like this still exist in 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLwgeV7dXOI
― groovypanda, Monday, 3 October 2016 08:50 (seven years ago) link
Playlist is finalized for the year:
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 06:03 (seven years ago) link
Nice one.
Is there a 2017 thread yet?
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 11:25 (seven years ago) link