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BLACK EYED PEAS – BOOM BOOM POW
Shameful; guilty of a lot of the the year’s worst musical crimes; contains the lyric “I’m so 3008, you so 200-late” despite coming out in 2009. But – best pop catchphrase of the year. Right? Right.
BRITNEY SPEARS – 3
Pop so sugary that it’s unquestionably 500%+ of my RDA. An instant hit – the load synthy outburts lodged deep into the grey squiggles of my brain. Britney compels you over to the dark side, ‘living in sin is the new thing’. Fo sho.
CASCADA – EVACUATE THE DANCEFLOOR
A brilliant tune from the ever shit-pop Cascada. Although despite having danced to it numerous time (in exclusive clubs such as Select’n’Save), I still can’t really make out the lyrics. Evaluate the dancefloor?
DIZZEE RASCAL – DIRTEE CASH
Yeah, it’s not Bonkers (overplayed) or Holiday (failed single pushed until people believed they must like it). There’s a little something more to Dirtee Cash; the playful Rascal of old striking out at the world at a speed that mean you don’t notice. And that title can be only be a dig at the haters.
EMPIRE OF THE SUN – WALKING ON A DREAM
Blissed-out, just on the populist side of the psychedelic borderline, as dreamy as the title suggests. The song feels like a lucky coincidence, that it couldn’t have come together any other way without falling apart and being rubbish. But isn’t that line what pop is all about?
KID CUDI VS. CROOKERS - DAY ‘N’ NITE (REMIX)
Perfectly generic, but so wonderfully competent. Catchy chorus, interestingly original use of sound and a puzzling incorporation of alarms. Also, a video with girls’ clothes coming off. Because the genre demands it!
LA ROUX – BULLETPROOF
For the few memory-impaired readers who don’t recall, Elly Jackson left the world of obscurity and guilty indie-crush for big fame with In For The Kill. It killed La Roux’s cred a bit. Bulletproof is the unexpected not-quite-overplayed hit. And at least she isn’t Littleboots.
LILY ALLEN – THE FEAR
Lily Allen makes a comeback with this wonderfully cutting song, catchy with just-clever-enough lyrics, then produces a mediocre album. Standard. Thanks, Lily!
LADY GAGA – PAPARAZZI
Definitely my favourite dish of all the songs served in the musical banquet that is The Fame. Surely I can mention the accompanying video, safely assuming the majority of student have seen it? It’s a masterpiece of its own. A mini-story mixing the best of the best: fashion, pop, sex, poison and murder. Lady Gaga has absolutely owned the charts this year. Hail the new Princess of Pop!
PRODIGY – WARRIOR’S DANCE
‘The dancefloor/You and me, ’cause that’s what it is for’, indeed. Over the course of 4 minutes, a standard dance song is twisted into a full-blown Prodigy anthem. Somewhere between the two, a good song is created.
SHAKIRA – SHE-WOLF
Like the stereotypical pop-female she is, Shakira sings about sex. But, damn, does she do it well. Managing the genuine feat of sounding like a pop song from the future, She-Wolf mixes high-end modern pop, the sounds of Crystal Castles, The Knife, and pure undiluted insanity. It’s genuinely deranged; a release of all the stuff the song talks about — that repressed sex and animalism. The kind of song which makes me want to talk about catharsis, computer glitches and tearing at my clothes.
TINCHY STRYDER (FT. N-DUBZ) – NUMBER 1
Self-fulfilling prophecy. The Tinchy one takes a lot of the campy fun out of Dappy & co. But, at that cost, comes a more focused, ass-shakeable version of the N-Dubz hit machine.
THE LONELY ISLAND (FT. T-PAIN) – ON A BOAT
Pinpoints every cliché in the hyper-macho materialist hip-hop book, whilst managing to still bring T-Pain on board (yeah, that was a pun.) Bye bye, autotuned R&B, you’re now officially irrelevant.
YEAH YEAH YEAHS – ZERO
Yeah Yeah Yeahs drop guitars, get synths. It’s the normal 3rd album reinvention, right? No. This is amazing, if you disagree, heads will roll.
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