I'm sure the version of Havana they play on the radio at work is Thugger-free... Is that possible?
― Badgers (dog latin), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 09:53 (six years ago) link
This version?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qooQd8AA7_M
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 09:57 (six years ago) link
On November 12, a remix version of the song with Daddy Yankee was uploaded to Cabello's YouTube page. The first verse of the song is sung in Spanish while Daddy Yankee replaces Young Thug's verse.[2]
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 09:58 (six years ago) link
xp
Could well be. I work for a commercial radio station whose programming tends to avoid any rap that isn't 'Return of the Mack'. I'll need to listen out again.
― Badgers (dog latin), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 10:03 (six years ago) link
There are tons of wp friendly radio versions of hit songs with the black guy removed out there.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 10:07 (six years ago) link
Yeah the fact they play the Bieber version of Despacito a hundred times a day definitely denigrated the song in my eyes. I don't mind the OG version now I've actually listened to it properly.
― Badgers (dog latin), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 10:09 (six years ago) link
I like the Bieber version!
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 10:19 (six years ago) link
not the fifth-hundredth time in a week though
― Badgers (dog latin), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 10:23 (six years ago) link
NEW ENTRIES!!! OH NO IT'S FUCKING DRAKE!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No99lbNwBg0
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 29 January 2018 22:01 (six years ago) link
Keala Settle / The Greatest Showman Ensemble - This Is Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV9BmH0tuH4
I have no idea what this is
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 29 January 2018 22:04 (six years ago) link
Jax Jones - Breathe ft. Ina Wroldsen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGhKqb2Ow3E
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 29 January 2018 22:05 (six years ago) link
My main opinion about this is that I like the ichthyosaur (or is it just a whale) skeleton and Ina Wroldsen's surname
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 29 January 2018 22:07 (six years ago) link
"This Is Me" won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song
― monotony, Monday, 29 January 2018 22:23 (six years ago) link
Drake has been listening to Mr Lamar, methinks
― the article don, Monday, 29 January 2018 22:24 (six years ago) link
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 13:55 (six years ago) link
Sigrid - Strangers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIriwVhRPVA
IDK, this is pretty ok, her voice is a mix of all the quirky singers of the last decade, backing is slightly updated EDM, somehow it seems to tie together quite well though, sounds good on headphones.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 8 February 2018 10:26 (six years ago) link
Rudimental - These Days feat. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjTj-_55WZ8
Ho hum
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 25 February 2018 21:41 (six years ago) link
Liam Payne, Rita Ora - For You (Fifty Shades Freed)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQUuqbzQVsY
Low expectations here, but it's not that bad, mainly due to production.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 25 February 2018 21:45 (six years ago) link
Kendrick Lamar, SZA - All The Stars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQbjS0_ZfJ0
Yeah, this is good of course, guess everyone's already heard it though.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 25 February 2018 21:48 (six years ago) link
Marshmello & Anne-Marie - FRIENDS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzD_yyEcp0M
Labelled as *OFFICIAL FRIENDZONE ANTHEM* on Youtube. Bit rubbish.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 25 February 2018 21:51 (six years ago) link
Two new entries last Friday, don't think I need to say much about either of them as they aren't exactly obscurities.
Post Malone Feat. Ty Dolla $ign - Psycho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGYJuETPQEg
Justin Timberlake ft. Chris Stapleton - Say Something
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MPbR6Cbwi4
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 5 March 2018 16:45 (six years ago) link
Yeah, this is good of course
first positive impression of "all the stars" i've seen on ilm
i like it all right too
― dyl, Monday, 5 March 2018 23:04 (six years ago) link
Eh, I'm not blown away by it, but it's pretty good
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 5 March 2018 23:12 (six years ago) link
I used to listen to a tape of The Hound of The Baskervilles when I was about 4 or 5 and I always liked the name Stapleton, and thought it wasn't fair that it was the name of the villain. This Stapleton isn't the hero I was hoping for though.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 16 March 2018 21:13 (six years ago) link
Anyway, no new entries in the top 10 last week, and only one this week - Zedd, Maren Morris, Grey - The Middle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3mJkSqZbX4
It's one of my least favourites so far. It sounds like all the worst bits of 2014 lumped together, and the vocal line on the bridge with "why don't you pull me close..." is an exact rip-off of something very familiar with "I think I'm going crazy" and I don't like that either.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 16 March 2018 21:22 (six years ago) link
Oh, I forgot this a few weeks ago.
Dua Lipa - IDGAF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgfe5tIwOj0
It's ok, not her best, clothes in the video are pretty cool.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 16 March 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link
George Ezra - Paradise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOwihbur34E
Saw this on Ant & Dec and thought "oh, this isn't bad actually." Then just checked out the video and "oh, actually it is bad, sorry"
I also cannot escape the fact that Ezra is the name of Henry Pratt's dad.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 24 March 2018 23:11 (six years ago) link
Two new Entries on Friday.
Lil Dicky - Freaky Friday feat. Chris Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZla1ttZHaw
Wow this is horrible in so many different ways it's hard to know where to start. So I won't.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 1 April 2018 22:11 (five years ago) link
Sigala & Paloma Faith - Lullaby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghSQz2BcDQU
Very 2016. Would I have liked it then? Don't think so. Definitely not now. Both of these artists can do (a bit) better.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 1 April 2018 22:14 (five years ago) link
I was quite surprised to see "God's Plan" drop suddenly from #1 to #10 after 9 weeks at the top. It seems this is the explanation:
Basically, he's fallen victim to a rule called "Accelerated Decline" (or Accelerated Chart Ratio) - which is designed to stop a song that's dominating streaming services from clogging up the charts.In a nutshell, if the sales of a song fall for three weeks in a row, the ratio by which sales are calculated is tweaked. Instead of 150 streams counting as one sale, the ratio becomes 300:1.The current record fall is the NHS Choir's Bridge Over You, which dropped from number one to number 29 back in 2015, after topping the charts that Christmas.
In a nutshell, if the sales of a song fall for three weeks in a row, the ratio by which sales are calculated is tweaked. Instead of 150 streams counting as one sale, the ratio becomes 300:1.
The current record fall is the NHS Choir's Bridge Over You, which dropped from number one to number 29 back in 2015, after topping the charts that Christmas.
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-43598328
― monotony, Tuesday, 3 April 2018 00:11 (five years ago) link
That sounds, um, not good. I like how the charts are mostly back to the way they moved in the 80s and early 90s, at the top end at least, but messing around with ratios like this seems a bit too much like gaming the system
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 3 April 2018 08:24 (five years ago) link
blatant manipulation to undermine our NHS imo
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 12 April 2018 09:32 (five years ago) link
granted, I'm a) not in the UK and b) not in possession of the actual data (I'm sure Chris Molanphy or something is writing about it now), but that seems like a very strange and arcane rule
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 12 April 2018 15:27 (five years ago) link
Haven't updated this for a month. Fortunately the charts now move at a glacial pace.
Here's The Weeknd with Call Out My Name. It's boring.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4ZoCHID9GI
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 13:57 (five years ago) link
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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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