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:
ILM's Rolling Pop Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist
― 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