In a unprecedented career move, Paul ‘Macca’ McCartney of the Beatles and Wings and ’solo’ fame has gone all grimey down the electro-house road, which is not long and winding but short and to the point….
All I want to do is tell you I love you
Thats when i start promising the world to
a brand new girl i dont even know yet
Next thing shes wearing my rolex
most energetic McCartney song since ‘Jet’? best songwriting since Hey Jude?!
Thumbs up, what the hell/
.by whigamore
PS: this is a joke, the song is actually by Wiley… I almost got ya’all, eh :!
Chart music nowadays is nowhere near as good as it once was. Am I right or am I right? Or what?
Recently I’ve been asked to DJ in a wedding (my sis, don’t go thinking that I am a high profile DJ…) and while trying to compile songs I remembered that I HAVE to play I want You Back by the Jackson 5. I went to wikipedia (yes I research the shit I write about) and read:
“I Want You Back” is a 1969 number-one single recorded by The Jackson 5 for the Motown label. It held the number-one position on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for one week, from January 24 to January 31, 1970, replacing “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” by B.J. Thomas, and then replaced by “Venus” by The Shocking Blue.
So we got I Want You Back in all its awesomeness (that riff, that bassline) but the lucky bastards living in 1969 had already enjoyed the genuinely beautiful classic ‘Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head’ and were about to discover the absurdly brilliant ‘Venus’… I mean… it really is a different league than the latest crappy Madonna attempt to be modern and the Florida ft. T-Pain nightmare of Low…
So for once I’m including a 60’s single in the blog… magic times, Michel Jackson was black, imagine that!
Now here’s a simple unpretentious song; sure Kanye West sounds as Kanye West by numbers, sure they could have made an effort with the lyrics (‘Take me to Broadway.Let’s go shopping baby then we’ll go to a Café.Let’s go on the subway.Take me to your hood’…. yes, these are the actual lyrics, Estelle is not from the Leonard Cohen school of songwriting), sure the chorus is too nice and easy… but overall this is a good, summery disco-pop joint.
“You said I must eat so many lemons/cause I am so beettaaah”
Kate Nash has been so often criticized for her pronunciation of the English language… and ok, it is true that the way she pronounces “I am so beetaaah” is quite funny;
Mockney and all that. Post Lilly Allen…
It is true that she is probably not the most promising artist to have appeared in 2007.
Goddamn it! It is true that she is quite annoying and that I would rather tear my own arm apart and chew on it than listen to her debut album , but go and compare this to 90% of chart music and come tell me that it isn’t better. It is.
“Umbrella” is recognized as the most successful song of 2007 on the United World Chart -wikipedia-
United World Chart? That makes me think of kids in sub-Saharan Africa listening to the song and going:
“- Mommy, what is an umbrella-ella-ella?”
“- Thing white men use to cover their heads from the rain”
“- Mommy, are you taking the piss?”
Such is the power of pop music! Umbrella is a mammoth of a song (those drums). An unstoppable Frankenstein monster of a record and Rihanna is an inch-perfect, computer-designed woman, that sings the song with a mixture of boredom and passion that is simply irresistible.
The only ‘but’, the Jay-Z cameo -please stop using street nonsense raps in the intro of sweet female R & B songs-.
If last year’s model was Amy Winehose, injecting a needed dose of dignity into the top 10, then this year’s model is any twentysomething white chick with a black throat. Now Duffy, tomorrow, who knows? Better this than the Lilly Allen mockney path, I say.
At least sister Duffy’s got soul, the tune you can dance to and the clip made me wish I was a mod, wearing out my dancing shoes’s soles and sweating my Fred Perry’s.
