Here's Drake - Nice For What. I don't hate it as much as I hate everything else he's done but can't quite get a grip of what the fuck it's supposed to be doing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9BwWKXjVaI
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 14:01 (six years ago) link
Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa - One Kiss - yeah, this is ok, the instrumental break has a good mix of the summery and the menacing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm8rz-llMhE
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 14:12 (six years ago) link
Ariana Grande - No Tears Left To Cry - this has been discussed enough elsewhere of course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffxKSjUwKdU
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 14:16 (six years ago) link
Banx & Ranx + Ella Eyre - Answerphone ft. Yxng Bane - I definitely had to copy/paste that title. Actual song is a bit nondescript.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayzAJ9yjnX8
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 14:19 (six years ago) link
Anne-Marie - 2002 - co-written by Ed Sheeran. "The words you pen get played again, your blithe resolve I can forgive / But when you tell us how to live it's just so heteronormative" indeed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tvLIhEaEKo
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 14:22 (six years ago) link
how many Ed Sheeran songs are there that go "it was better back then/I'm 26 now"
I've never really enjoyed his music or persona but I've managed to avoid it easily enough outside of Jessie Ware cowrites but this is absolutely abysmal and its success really does feel like a damning indictment of culture
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link
"Answerphone" is a weird one because much as I don't enjoy that style of pop voice that seems ubiquitous now (that mix of lazy enunciation and cutesy oversinging) you can tell Eyre could and should be doing better
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 20:00 (six years ago) link
'Answerphone' is my favourite chart hit in some time. I've only heard probably 5-10% of what's been in the charts this year though.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 21:12 (six years ago) link
Let's catch up with this (it may take a little while)
Post Malone – Better Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7TZt7yewh0
Sounds like recycled bits of things I might've liked about five years ago, but somehow much worse. He also really needs to lose the neckbeard.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 2 September 2018 19:52 (five years ago) link
Nothing to add about this one, except that I'm glad it's here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOjWnS4cMY
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 3 September 2018 21:10 (five years ago) link
David Guetta & Sia - Flames
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J75enyWdbBM
Standard DG and standard Sia, which works together pretty well, I like how it constantly plays with being anthemic but doesn't ever go there. Still, fairly forgetable. Video reminds me of the Kung Fu Fighting discussion on ILM this week.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 3 September 2018 21:15 (five years ago) link
Jess Glynne - I'll Be There
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQp1_GfDhwQ
Been vaguely bored with Jess for what seems like an age now, this is one of her best ones for a while, but still...
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 3 September 2018 21:19 (five years ago) link