That song gives me fits.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 26 July 2015 13:19 (eight years ago) link
track, i mentioned previously has finally been added to spotify:
Tourist - Holding Onhttps://open.spotify.com/track/74n256PuLfuVzLND4VAnq8
― djmartian, Sunday, 26 July 2015 21:14 (eight years ago) link
uptempo fresh bass heavy electronic pop with soulful vocals, riyl Huntar
MONAKR - Calling Outhttps://soundcloud.com/monakr/callingout
― djmartian, Monday, 3 August 2015 22:32 (eight years ago) link
Zara Larsson is back at #1 in Sweden and top 10 Scandinavia with this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD4HCZe-tew
― abcfsk, Monday, 3 August 2015 23:03 (eight years ago) link
todd terry x demi lovato
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D37-yhit-7c
― for sale: baby shoes, never worn your ass (katherine), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 00:22 (eight years ago) link
(this actually isn't my favorite of the remixes for this but I mean)
― for sale: baby shoes, never worn your ass (katherine), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 00:24 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1A2Ow7sGo0
<3
― I wear my Redditor loathing with pride (ShariVari), Friday, 7 August 2015 20:45 (eight years ago) link
i am glad i was wrong about whether lunchmoney lewis's "bills" was going to be a hit in the us
but here is a new one from him. it is very flo rida-wave -- verses with dumb lyrics + heavy-duty chorus -- but i think it mostly works b/c the hook is quite happy-sounding and not so heavy-handedly gimmicky. the nod to old miami bass in one of the bridges is also used to decent effect, which i think flo also did on one or two of his subpar singles from his first album lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjnkJVg5-NY
i didn't know who the featured singer was so i looked her up, i think she's part of dr. luke's arsenal of songwriters
― dyl, Sunday, 9 August 2015 20:39 (eight years ago) link
older, but cherri bomb has reformed, better yet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOK3ep3liFc
― for sale: baby shoes, never worn your ass (katherine), Sunday, 9 August 2015 21:52 (eight years ago) link
i am surprised ILM hasn't mentioned Melanie Martinez, a 20 year old singer with a quirky kooky cute style who is racking up millions of plays on youtube
Melanie Martinezhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Martinez_(singer)ex Voice US contestant
She is just about to release her debut album: Cry Babythis friday
Cry Babyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry_Baby_(album)
3 2015 tracks have been previewed, completely addictive and bonkers OTT good
this is commercial pop with a subversive dark quirky edge
Melanie Martinez - Soap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFU_wJes-xE
Melanie Martinez - Pity Party (Official Video)
samples "It's my party and I cry if I want to cry if I want"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bAPlojfgO0
Melanie Martinez - Sippy Cup (Official Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdwaWp59qz8
the following track was released in 2014, but will be on the 2015 album
Melanie Martinez - Dollhouse (Official Music Video)over 20 million plays on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcVv9R1ZR84
Artist Links:
soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/melaniemartinezmusic
spotify:https://open.spotify.com/artist/63yrD80RY3RNEM2YDpUpO8
so what is the verdict?
― djmartian, Sunday, 9 August 2015 22:59 (eight years ago) link
some of her early tracks are really really awful
― j. winters (josh), Monday, 10 August 2015 07:10 (eight years ago) link
Based on the four song titles I see there and the fact that her album will be called Cry Baby, the verdict is GUILTY OF ANNOYING ME.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 10 August 2015 07:34 (eight years ago) link
um what is that song on the radio that's like Bruno Mars - his most famous one? they still play it all the time. Uptown Funk i think. i'm still forming my opinion.... i'm worried i like it fuck o_O
― surm, Monday, 10 August 2015 07:39 (eight years ago) link
there are support groups, don't give up
― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Monday, 10 August 2015 17:13 (eight years ago) link
great uptempo bouncy bass banger pop track from Nero
Nero - Two Mindshttps://soundcloud.com/nero/two-minds
― djmartian, Friday, 14 August 2015 20:29 (eight years ago) link
Seinabo Sey - Pretend
another bass heavy pop track that deserves your listening attention
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xbX5hCk9FE
― djmartian, Friday, 14 August 2015 21:15 (eight years ago) link
going from Sweden, Seinabo Sey to Denmark's Mendoza
Mendoza - Love Druggie
another strong bass driven track (you what i like!) with a powerful addictive pop hook chant
this track first emerged in denmark in 2013, but is now promoted by Atlantic Records / Warners for a 2015 release in the UK on July 24th. I wonder if it's on Spotify US? yet I haven't seen any US coverage of this track.
soundcloud:https://soundcloud.com/omfgitsmendoza/love-druggie
spotify:Mendoza - Love Druggiehttps://open.spotify.com/track/6CStdYvgAkOBkLreuAOmQu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8i50l9xhtA
― djmartian, Friday, 14 August 2015 22:09 (eight years ago) link
So Popjustice are raving about this Grace Mitchell track, "Jitter". The song is kind of a schizophrenic mess and that includes Mitchell's singing who, at times, sounds like Santigold and other times like ...I don't know, but something very different. However, somehow it all works. It REALLY works.
Second track on this link:http://www.hillydilly.com/2015/08/grace-mitchell-raceday/
― daavid, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 18:50 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhnC0NPl76s
DON'T GET TIRED YETTIRED YETDON'T GET TIRED YET
― uberweiss, Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:02 (eight years ago) link
that Grace Mitchell track is now on spotify
Grace Mitchell - Jitterhttps://open.spotify.com/track/3JU0hTjV1dO5iri97sz6Hg
as part of a 5 track Raceday ephttps://open.spotify.com/album/474fYqG7ZsHIPaAkHQPYEm
― djmartian, Friday, 21 August 2015 09:31 (eight years ago) link
<3 that Becky G!
― lilcraigyboi (Craigo Boingo), Friday, 21 August 2015 21:02 (eight years ago) link
Fever High from NYC
so going through this week's Spotify Fresh Finds playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/3rgsDhGHZxZ9sB9DQWQfufi came across this track:
Fever High - Tantalizedhttps://open.spotify.com/track/65oCsBAaymBY1IsxRGjdikreleased August 14th
a joyful uptempo infectious electronic pop track
Soundcloudhttps://soundcloud.com/feverhigh/tantalized
immediately on listening to the track: Bananarama flashed in my mind,
did a quick google search, and yep others noticed the similarity, including a twitter account:
LoveBananaramahttps://twitter.com/LoveBananarama/status/632153402563276800
― djmartian, Friday, 21 August 2015 21:05 (eight years ago) link
Looking forward to the Brooke Candy album if / when it ever comes out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg77h0ePeHQ
― I wear my Redditor loathing with pride (ShariVari), Saturday, 22 August 2015 06:30 (eight years ago) link
Lyric video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAZIyOBN2RI
this may be my favorite song of the year so far
― daavid, Saturday, 22 August 2015 19:48 (eight years ago) link
Lyric video is not really what that song needed. Didn't realize it was so full of dated-five-minutes-from-now slang until it was right in my face.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 22 August 2015 20:39 (eight years ago) link
It is a little bit in some places, yes. Trying a bit too hard. But on the other hand the line "tout le monde est jittering" line makes me happy.
― daavid, Saturday, 22 August 2015 21:31 (eight years ago) link
that's almost like a k-pop song in how it's five songs
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Saturday, 22 August 2015 22:28 (eight years ago) link
oof that was rough
― some dude, Saturday, 22 August 2015 23:08 (eight years ago) link
"Break a Sweat" is cool but what I really want to hear is a remix that stretches out the groove at 3:05-3:10 for ~10 minutes.
― List of people who are ready for woe and how we know this (seandalai), Monday, 24 August 2015 00:20 (eight years ago) link
funky electronic pop / with soulful vocals similar to Huntar / Roosevelt
Klyne - Paralyzed
spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/track/0I2Rf23IjDIKHsfJnYz6wu
soundcloudhttps://soundcloud.com/thisisklyne/sets/paralyzed-single
― djmartian, Monday, 24 August 2015 19:01 (eight years ago) link
Jahkoy from Toronto, with an uptempo electronic R&B pop track, Still in Love - that locks into a groove
Jahkoy - Still in Lovehttps://soundcloud.com/jahkoy/sil
― djmartian, Friday, 28 August 2015 22:25 (eight years ago) link
another artist from Toronto !
Bossie - There will be Timehttps://soundcloud.com/bossieperson/there-will-be-time
strong uptempo pop track with a pulsating groove, stereogum throw up Blondie and Cyndi Lauper references, i also detect some Altered Images
via
http://www.stereogum.com/1825754/bossie-there-will-be-time-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/
Bossie is Toronto pop artist Anne Douris. She got some positive attention for last year’s “Meteor,” a bass-driven groove that managed to be both wildly fun and deeply wistful, especially when paired with its humorous, glittery video. She’s getting ready to make her live debut next month, and it’s preceded by another excellent single called “There Will Be Time.” There are traces of Blondie in the way Bossie’s breathy vocals navigate the verse’s dark-tinged synth-bass undercurrent, but the roller-rink chorus is all Cyndi Lauper. It’s one of those genius pop songs that feels like an explosion of bright colors and good feelings.
the other Bossie track mentioned by Stereogum is down as a 2015 track on spotify
Bossie - Meteorhttps://open.spotify.com/track/3snildafxwEjzbWbZ1YnWY
― djmartian, Saturday, 29 August 2015 13:23 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvueoO7JXcQ
I mentioned Madi Diaz's in the rolling pop thread last year, and now there's a new standalone single "Control". Such a thick low end! It's possible she's crossed all the way over into shambhala at this point, but I still think she's got pop bona fides that a lot of things I share in that thread don't.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 31 August 2015 21:24 (eight years ago) link
...Madi Diaz's album...
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 31 August 2015 21:25 (eight years ago) link
why is rita ora like this inescapable fact of life in the UK but in the US she's practically a non-entity?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 4 September 2015 23:43 (eight years ago) link
uptempo bouncy electronic pop from the mysterious, Mocki on the kitsune label, this track was released in January 2015
Mocki - Weekend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGmmQ69L6Ac
Spotify: Mocki - Weekend https://open.spotify.com/track/2Wd0mlukS5SBPTbl1mZTvH
facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/officialmocki
― djmartian, Monday, 14 September 2015 19:18 (eight years ago) link
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, September 4, 2015 7:43 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i dunno, but doesn't this describe most UK-based pop singers who aren't Sam Smith or Adele? Rita at least has a US label trying hard to keep her visible, so far the Iggy Azalea hook is the only thing that's really broken through.
― some dude, Monday, 14 September 2015 19:26 (eight years ago) link
is rihanna an inescapable fact of life in the UK? if not, there's the other half of it
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 14 September 2015 19:33 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlARJAmytnk
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 07:43 (eight years ago) link
New Petite Meller track out today:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/barbaric-single/id1041497958
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 08:37 (eight years ago) link
no willow smith on thread? both of these are great.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YonSeyqOn60https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSVdGh3iylc
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Friday, 25 September 2015 14:25 (eight years ago) link
This is a quick, third-quarter reminder that all available tracks mentioned on this thread (and a handful of album selections from each listed) are being updated to the thread-specific Spotify playlist as posted. I just did another top-to-bottom sweep prior to posting this message and have revised as of today with everything that's been added since first mentioned. Subscribe if you're into it!
It's 120 tracks, over 7 hours.
Rolling Pop 2015 Thread Spotify Playlist
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 26 September 2015 18:35 (eight years ago) link
kinda feel like someone should mention hotline bling in this threadi'm pretty sure i don't like it but it's interesting to me that drake is doing bruno mars and that's likely gonna make for his most marketable self.
― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 17 October 2015 01:40 (eight years ago) link
no idea where bruno mars figures into this
― some dude, Saturday, 17 October 2015 02:05 (eight years ago) link
hotline bling sounds to me like mars would be a more honest delivery system.
― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 17 October 2015 03:20 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfyc2YHj3zM
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 20:04 (eight years ago) link
new tkay maidza track is catchy.
― billstevejim, Monday, 23 November 2015 03:10 (eight years ago) link
M.O.B.?
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Monday, 23 November 2015 03:17 (eight years ago) link
M.O.B. is ok, but I like this one a lot better:https://soundcloud.com/tkaymaidza/ghost
― billstevejim, Monday, 23 November 2015 03:34 (eight years ago) link
Just found out about Dua Lipa cause she's in the BBC Sound Of 2016 longlist. I dig this. A lot!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rey3m8SWQI
― daavid, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 04:02 (eight years ago) link