The Week's Billboard Hot 100 #1

Reminds of this headline: The end is near: Nickelback just released a disco song

Internet culture loves to make them a meme.

...huh.

Chad Kroeger is damn near unrecognizable without his signature ramen noodle hairstyle.

As for the song itself, it'd be pretty funny to see it become a modest hit on the charts, even though Nickelback isn't all that relevant anymore. I'm getting "Paralyzer" vibes from it.

I can definitely see the "Paralyzer" vibes. Maybe it's because Croeger's vocals make it sound rougher than your standard nu-disco fare.

That's probably the stupidest chorus I've heard since the last time Train was relevant. Seriously, “Funky little monkey, she’s a twisted trickster"? "Everybody wants to be the sister’s mister"? "Coca-Cola roller-coaster?" What the fuck are you even talking about? Jesus Christ, you make Train sound like Edgar Allan Poe in comparison!

edited 7th Mar '15 3:28:07 PM by Xeroop

I actually heard Nickelback not too long ago on the hard/alternative rock station with their... alright (if clichédly rebellious) "Edge of a Revolution".

But "She Keeps Me Up" is just a late grab at the barely-alive disco revival (though "Uptown Funk" is around). It's not even a decent funk-rock shift. Green Day did that better:

The Weeknd's "Earned It" keeps rhyming the word "it" with the same word in the chorus again and again. Even its official lyric video lampshades that. When the chorus plays in the video, the word "it" stays there on the foreground while the other words fades away. If you've watched the video, you'd agree with me that the word "it" should have remained there until the last line of the chorus.

Rhyming a word with itself is perhaps my worst pet peeves in songs. A songwriter may have accidentally copied another song's melody for his/her song. But, there's just no excuse to rhyme one word with itself without being conscious of that. There's nothing wrong with that. It's just lazy songwriting in my opinion.

Lyrics:

Cause girl you're perfect
You're always worth it
And you deserve it
The way you work it
Cause girl you earned it
Girl you earned it

Eh, it's more like near-rhymes between the words that come before "it" (worth/deserve/work/earned/perf). Not much better, but not inexcusable.

Now, the generic love/sex song lyrics, on the other hand...

edited 10th Mar '15 1:36:20 AM by Odd1

You do know which movie it's from, right?

No excuse.

Anyone been following the "Blurred Lines" copyright trial? It has reached a verdict.

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/legal-and-management/6495158/blurred-lines-trial-verdict-jury-rules-against

Good. Robin and Pharrell really have no "coincidence" excuse here.

Robin outright said that he wanted to make a song like "Got to Give It Up".

And they only wrote it within an hour. If you're going to spend time making a song "like" a previous song, at least put some time into differentiating it.

Isn't it Robin Thicke's birthday today, to boot?

It's true that he said that in interviews. However, Robin stated he can't remember himself mentioning that because he was drunk and high in all the 2013 interviews he was in.

According to Pop Crush:

The copyright trial have also exposed how much money "Blurred Lines" have earned.

According to Idolator:

(Both articles cite The Hollywood Reporter, a trusted website for showbiz news. I use these two other websites for my sources instead because I can't highlight and copy any line in the Hollywood Reporter website.)

Yes, the 10th of March was his birthday. I can't imagine a birthday present worse than this lawsuit.

edited 11th Mar '15 9:42:31 AM by tropeslave

There's already discussion on how the "Blurred Lines" can can affect music copyright laws. I hope it won't negativity affect music in the industry.

Speaking of another enormous retro throwback hit, "Uptown Funk" is #1 once more, for the tenth week.

No new entries in the top 10 this week, although "Style" climbs to #6, "Earned It" climbs to #7, and "Time of Our Lives" is #9.

edited 11th Mar '15 12:58:39 PM by BurntMario

"Style" has really, really grown on me. Honestly, Taylor Swift is a million times better as a pop star than she ever was as a country singer.

I'm pretty much inclined to agree. Taylor Swift always seemed to be one of the most accessible stars in both pop and country, and she attracts a massive audience. People generally tend to listen to something along the lines of "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me" more than they do any of, say, Carrie Underwood's or Miranda Lambert's output. She's shown to be especially relatable for young teenage girls, who don't even have to be country fans in the first place.

The switch to pop has certainly worked well for Taylor, although it did produce a few stinkers ("We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," anyone?).

edited 11th Mar '15 5:50:59 PM by BurntMario

It's honestly no secret that the pop charts are largely determined by teenage girls.

Seriously, I've actually spoken to industry experts who agree 100%.

I think "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" is one of the better songs of Swift's entire career.

It certainly beats "Shake It Off".

But I love Shake it Off! D:

I disagree; for me "Never Ever..." was alright but not something I'd want to listen to by choice whereas "Shake It Off" is much catchier and overall more fun to listen to.

edited 12th Mar '15 4:11:50 AM by Willbyr

It's a harpy screeching tune. It's no different than the (same screeching harpy) travesty that is "Shake it Off".

If that's one of her better tracks, modern music as a whole therefore sucks.

edited 12th Mar '15 5:28:14 AM by MajorTom

"Screeching harpy"? What do you define that to be?

Also, that's a hell of a leap to make. "These songs suck, so all pop music sucks."

I never said I like her. I do like "Never Ever" more since it has (apart from the part between quotation marks right there) much better lyrics than the infinitely stupid "Shake It Off".

Also, I don't think Taylor Swift alone is the sole measurement of how modern music is doing today.

edited 12th Mar '15 5:37:00 AM by Xeroop

I'll say this, "I Knew You Were Trouble." is a guilty pleasure for me.