Lorde released a new song!
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I hope this gets a US single release for radio.
edited 13th Sep '13 4:55:43 AM by chihuahua0
"Brave" annoys me, too. Is it me, or does it and "Roar" have the exact same piano?
"Applause" is still my favorite right now. Shame it probably won't get big.
It may also be Gaga's best video, maybe even better than Bad Romance.
I have a hard time reaching for good things to say about it.
Stefani dancing is always fun. I like the knife catch. Um...
I'm a skeptical squirrelMiley Cyrus Headed for First Hot 100 No. 1 With 'Wrecking Ball'
The only uncertainty involves "Roar" being ahead on radio, but I think Miley's sales and video views will allow her the #1 she probably deserved with "Party in the USA".
Honestly, I feel like the use of the word "deserved" was the major sticking point here
There are plenty of artists who I feel deserve a number one hit but that I know will never in their lives attain one.
The only good to have come out of "Party in the USA", to be honest, were Todd In The Shadows' review of it (I think the first of his reviews I ever watched, or maybe the second) and Weird Al's hilarious parody "Party in the CIA".
Also, I have never once heard "Wrecking Ball" on the radio. I feel like I probably should have at least heard it once before if it's now going to be the new #1 on the charts.
edited 13th Sep '13 9:57:28 PM by 0dd1
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.Wrecking Ball: the greatest P!nk song never written by P!nk.
That's not being pithy, either - this is a damn good riot girl song. The video has jack to do with anything as per usual. (Thanks, Gagama!)
While she probably shot the video long before the VMAs, this would have been the time to switch gears; remind people that she's a soulful singer as well as post punk, nubile etc.
She might have nailed both, but that would require credibility - something Billy Ray never informed her about.
edited 14th Sep '13 5:22:33 PM by johnnyfog
I'm a skeptical squirrel
And something that he barely had any of himself
(Unless Twentington could tell me differently.)
I just heard it on the radio for the first time a few minutes ago. Her voice sounds incredibly unlike her own voice in the verses. It sounds like it's being sung by, oddly enough, Demi Lovato at some points.
Can I be honest and say that I actually never really minded her Hannah Montana music and thought it was, on the whole, better than her Miley Cyrus music? I still say "If We Were a Movie" is one of the best tween pop songs in the past decade.
Huh, I don't remember it being *that* big of a hit, but then again I didn't listen to the radio much in 2009. I get what you mean, though, I've heard the same thing said about "Bad Romance", which was *everywhere*, and I was surprised when I found out it didn't hit number one. The difference to me is that I think Bad Romance is an example of a well-crafted interesting pop song while Party in the USA is just annoying.
Yeah, that was basically what I was thinking.
I don't really get the appeal of Miley Cyrus as both a singer and a performer. I listened to a sample of Wrecking Ball on iTunes (I can't watch it on Youtube anymore because I don't want to help it's chart ranking), and the song sounds ok but I don't like the way her voice sounds. Definitely sounds like it was touched up in the studio. Also, when take a sad breakup song and polish and process enough to give it that modern pop sound, it looses any emotional impact it might've had. A fun, upbeat pop song can work really well but a breakup ballad in pop song form is kind of useless. Also, the video looks really ugly.
Right now Miley seems to be running her career on No Such Thing as Bad Publicity, which isn't stable method in the long run but it's sure working for her right now. I think once people get over the shock of the "new" Miley, her popularity will die down.
Something worth pointing out: one of the "Hot Shot Debuts" on this Week's Billboard's Top 100 is "The Fox" by Ylvis, which launched itself on the spot #29. Why I think this is worth pointing out? Well, see for yourself.
I'd love to see this one climb higher. I want to end up dancing to that on a club!
edited 15th Sep '13 12:43:34 PM by Xeroop
Britney Spears seems to have two extremes, obnoxious and exceedingly boring (the latter of which is this one). Also, in her vocals, she seems to be channeling Adam Levine's vocal style in the verses.
If nothing else, I can at least see this being a good workout song. Other than that...meh.
Personally, aside from maybe her earliest stuff (which I really only like out of nostalgia), the only Britney Spears song I can honestly, truly say I like on its own merits is "Toxic". I actually think that is probably one of the best pop songs of the 2000s. (The decade, not the entire millennium.)
Meh.
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True... but at least pre-Toxic Britney had a sound.
These days she sounds like a backup singer whose frontman has mysteriously left the room. I mean, her duet on Scream & Shout doesn't sound substantially different from her own singles.
So this is a small improvement. Nothing groundbreaking, she's just imitating Madonna - but that's still improvement.
I'm a skeptical squirrelI still stand by my assertion that "Scream and Shout" is one of the greatest sources of unintentional hilarity ever.
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.Great as a club song, middle of the road as a radio hit. Regardless of the rest of the song though, the bridge soars.
Thoughts on my description of it?
Let's guess: How many radio stations will censor it, and how many will play the regular version?
My Top 40 station today played the regular version, but in my area, "Scream & Shout" kept the "Britney, bitch" part intact.
edited 15th Sep '13 7:29:28 PM by chihuahua0
(Sorry, but that seems like way too much hyperbole there and more like something the record company would use to describe it in a press release or something. I can never take statements like that seriously.)
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I don't think it won that for her singing, though. I'd say more for how musically good it is. Britney's voice is...really, all it's really great for is a whispery sexual tone or a bizarre childlike tone.
And "I Sing the Body Electric" is a song from Fame, so I'm not sure what that has to do with Lana Del Rey sucking.
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edited 15th Sep '13 8:53:42 PM by 0dd1
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He'll never go back to those days, talent-wise.
Em's past his prime.
I live in a constant state of fear and misery.