The Week's Billboard Hot 100 #1

I'm sorry I can't hear you over the sound of how much I don't care :)

Octa Hate is alright. It's been around for a while but it hasn't really wowed me yet. Not dynamic or interesting enough to grab me unfortunately.

I hope "Lean On" starts gaining some momentum. That has really grown on me since I first heard it.

Why does he want stats about shipping real people?

Me too.

I'm more than happy take that as my song of the summer.

In other news, "shipping real people" sounds like human trafficking.

edited 19th May '15 3:55:30 AM by Xeroop

Jason Derulo enlisted Stevie Wonder's harmonica and Keith Urban's guitar to make a country-R&B song. Really.

It's a fun joint, but I think country will widely benefit from more black musicians pushing its boundaries, in a profond way. The genre is widely built off the shoulders of rockers like Chuck Berry, after all. Some diversity can work to smash the bro-country stigma.

What is it with everyone only wanting Stevie for his harmonica these days? Same thing on the first and last tracks of Uptown Special.

Not a bad song, definitely like the second half of it better than the first half though.

It builds up nicely. That being said, it reminds me of a certain unspeakable country-urban mash-up...

He sings the hook on Snoop Dogg's new song.

A bit off-topic, but a page ago, an user said one of the "Bad Blood" cameos a "child molester", which is a likely reference to Lena Dunham. I found the statement suspect, so I did some research...

http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-ra-lena-dunham-is-no-child-molester-20141104-column.html

...I mentally facepalmed. Why throw around such a label when it was only experimentation among two children as described in a memoir with both parties approving? It's not even a Terry Richardson situation, with a significant age gap involved.

I'm not sure if you really believe Lena is one, but please don't throw around the words "child molester" like that. It's the kind of rumors that start witch hunts.

EDIT: Another link: http://www.salon.com/2014/11/03/the_rights_abuse_claim_against_lena_dunham_is_moronic/

Lena might've not have handled it correctly (and should've had a better editor), but she didn't deserve the allegations right-wing media and Tumblr both advanced.

edited 19th May '15 6:19:14 PM by chihuahua0

So, Florence and the Machine came out with a new song today, and it is AWESOME.

I was afraid that this album was gonna be a giant plodding behemoth like Ceremonials, but it doesn't seem to be the case, at least with this song.

No news about "Pretty Girls" yet, so I'm led to believe that it hasn't cracked the top 20 this week.

Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 (May 30, 2015):

1. "See You Again" (6 weeks)
2. "Trap Queen"
3. "Earned It"
4. "Shut Up and Dance"
5. "Uptown Funk"
6. "Want to Want Me"
7. "Sugar"
8. "Love Me Like You Do"
9. "Nasty Freestyle" (re-entry)
10. "Thinking Out Loud"

...

11. "Hey Mama"
12. "Honey, I'm Good."
13. "Talking Body"
18. "You Know You Like It"
19. "Worth It"
53. "Bad Blood"

"Uptown Funk" has now spent 24 weeks in the top five, passing all-time greatest hit Chubby Checker's "The Twist," which spent 23. It has one more week to tie LeAnn Rimes's "How Do I Live," which spent 25, but I'm not totally sure that it's going to make it.

edited 20th May '15 12:25:01 PM by BurntMario

Only vaguely relevant but

this was a trip in the best way.

“49 students were each given 52 frames of Taylor Swift’s Shake it Off and together they produced 2767 frames of lovingly hand-drawn rotoscoped footage.”

@Chihuahua: I think I know what you mean by "witch hunts", but could you please clarify to make sure?

When a crowd on social media get too caught up about a real or perceived cause, to the point of excessive action. The virtual equivalent of a torches-and-pitchforks mob.

In Lena's case, there was a campaign to get her fired or otherwise rid of career opportunities. I bet she also received a bunch of death threat, and I wouldn't be surprised if detractors harassed her fans.

On topic, I predict "Bad Blood" will take #1. It has buried "See You Again" in digital sales and streaming, and the radio gap is narrowing. Depending how Wiz's label respond, this can either be an entertaining competition, a foregone conclusion, or even a darkhorse contender.

I hope not. It's the first Taylor song in a while that I'd call "mediocre". Give me SYA any day.

Has "This Summer's Gonna Hurt" charted yet?

I'm not just saying this to be hyperbolic: I never, ever, ever want to hear SYA ever ever again.

There's a pun to be made there, I just know it.

I am not at all trying to be flippant, but what do you like?

ILoveDogs is a fan of F+TM, for example, but happens to be upfront about musical opinions.

I don't mind hearing "See You Again", but I don't think it'd make a good Song of the Summer in the long-term. It does reflect on Paul Walker's legacy and the success of Furious 7. Outside of its context, the song's just okay. The lyrics don't feel personal for such a sentimental song, and Wiz feels distant in an unpurposeful way. Maybe Ludacris would've done a better eulogy? Sound-wise, it has some interesting production, but it's not the best emotion-wise.

With "Bad Blood", at least you can feel Taylor's rage, as melodramatic as it is. Of the two, "Bad Blood" is the track I want to represent summer 2015. It'll persist even after the gimmicks are gone.

I want this. I want this now.

At least Charlie Puth does an okay job.

Just steppin in here to remind folks the best eulogy song ever in the last 30 years is "Every Step You Take" by (then-) Puff Daddy concerning the (then-)recent demise of the Notorious BIG.

"See You Again" has got nothing on it.

Seems about right.

I actually like more than I seem to like. Taylor Swift, for one thing.

It's just that the pop charts aren't my taste at the moment.

I would tend to agree, but (if you don't mind me asking) when were they more to your liking? A year ago? Ten years ago? Fifty years ago?

A few years ago, I'd say. I was quite happy with the cadre of Gagas and Perries and Keshas and Rihannas. Now, there's...Taylor Swift, and not much else.