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 :!

# 1 (yes) in the UK this week.

Now, where did this come from? The Ting Tings, that seems a pretty silly name…
mmm
this guys toured with the NME, is it an indie band? Is ‘That’s not my name‘ this year’s ‘Standing on The Way Of Control‘ ?

let’s listen…

Ok, I’ve listen twice and not only my headache is not getting any better but I feel like jumping out of the window… eventually I don’t cause I live in a first floor and it’d be pretty stupid, but…

kids! this is My Sharona! and it was released a trillion years ago…

The world needs another My Sharona like it needs another Nagasaki.

Thumbs down.

.by whigamore

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!

Thumbs up. Yes

.whigamore 

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.

Enjoy

Thumbs up.

.by whigamore

yes my friends, two shit songs for the price of one.

Eamon, “Fuck It (I don’t want you back)”

and

Frankee, “Fuck You Right Back”

This could even be funny if it wasn’t all a commercial-marketing strategy operation.

The story is:

…a chap called Eamon releases a soft R & B joint with the novelty of repeating fuck you over and over in the chorus to her ex-girlfriend… the ditty is called Fuck You (I don’t want you back), because marketing people know that teenagers love a bit of swearing.

The song is an instant hit, selling zillions of singles… the polemic is on the table, and the ball is in Frenkee’s rooftop. Frankee is the ex-, and turns out to be a singer (surprise!) that replies with yet another song called, quite straightforwardly: “Fuck you Right Back”.

The tune is EXACTLY the same, but the kids don’t seem to care that much and they cash in again, pushing the song to the top of the charts, and happy in the knowledge that they own a beautiful diptych of love gone wrong.

Eamon goes

Fuck what I said it dont mean shit now
Fuck the presents might as well throw em out
Fuck all those kisses, they didn’t mean jack
Fuck you, you hoe, I dont want you back

Frankee replies:

Fuck what I did
was your fault somehow
Fuck the presents, I threw all that shit out
Fuck all the cryin’ it didn’t mean jack
well guess what yo,fuck you right back

Well…, Eamon… Frankee, why don’t you both go and fuck off.

Thumbs down.

Oh lord, talk about a cliché video, and terribly bland production. The video contains the usual bump ‘n grind imagery, in black and white, a sexy shorty , and Shayne Ward with stubbles on his face, and on his head.

My biggest issue with the track is that, first of all, lyric-wise it seems like an ad for a telephone company (there’s a whole lot of talking on the phone going down in Shayne Wards universe), and secondly, Shayne belongs to the group of singers who doesn’t feel it necessary to pronounce all the letters in words, he likes to cut them off. Furthermore, if I were him, I would look into either killing my ghost writer, or take some poetry classes.

“you got my attentiooo’ and hellooo”

“anything you say makes a beautiful noise”

“No U hang up, no U hang up, kinda loooo’”

I don’t know about you, but this sounds like shit noise to me. Visually, the video is certainly pleasing, if it wasn’t for Shayne Ward being in it so much. The fact that it’s on spot #6 on the Danish hitlists makes me squirm.

if you want to check out the video -well, the girl-

http://youtube.com/watch?v=cjHDUnCW3q4

Thumbs doooo’.

Sincerely,

Bobby Bonzai

Say, A doggy is nuttin’ if he don’t have a bone
All dogy hold ya’ bone, all doggy hold it
A doggy is nuttin’ if he don’t have a bone
All dogy hold ya’ bone, all doggy hold it

Look, I’m not going to pretend that I understand this song…
Maybe it is a metaphor or maybe not. Maybe it is just about some poor fool that went and let the dogs out, spoiling the party.
It happens all the time, you are partying like it’s 1999 with some gals and your mates and someone goes and let the dogs out… which is a drag cause you have to go and get them back…Typical.

(…)

No, I don’t get it.

Thumbs down. (woof woof woof woof)

How the Kooks became so popular puzzles me a lot; ok, they have a couple of songs that would surely rock a campfire (she moves in her own way..Oh La…) but hell! if this band would have appeared at the height of the Britpop era, they’d have ended up supporting Shed Seven.

The best thing that can be said about this derivative slice of sunshine pop is that it’s short and wouldn’t be out of place in a Supergrass b-side compilation.
And yes, it is not the worst shit in the charts right now, but feck I can’t stand the singer.

Thumbs Down.

Definitions of Blunt on the web:

1. make less intense; 

2. numb: make numb or insensitive;

3. dull: make dull or blunt;

Is this the most annoying song ever? Possibly yes.

Are you beautiful James Blunt? No. Is your music beautiful? NO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjYyRCdvqIE

Thumbs Down. Obviously

Shawty had them Apple Bottom Jeans [Jeans]
Boots with the fur [With the fur]
The whole club was lookin at her
She hit the flo [She hit the flo]
Next thing you know
Shawty got low low low low low low low low

beg you pardon? What is this shit?

Fact 1: “Low” was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 10 weeks and has been on the chart for 20 weeks overall

really? in the States, right?

Fact 2: yes, but now is coming over to Europe.

Oh Shit.

Fact 3: The rapper has the biggest selling digital download of all time, as “Low” has sold 3.3 million downloads

I was watching the video on youtube and one user comments: “wicked song love it awsome vibe makes me jump up and do the worm”

(…)
What can we learn from all this? That people with no musical taste cannot even write a proper, gramatically correct sentence.

Thumbs down. Low low low low low…