Can you imagine how great it would be if Ladyhawke hooked up wih Girls Aloud producers Xenomania? If your brain isn’t up to such popmath, fear not - there’s a song on Cicada’s new album Roulette which shows exactly how great such a pairing would sound.
It is called “Psycho Thrills”, and if whoever makes such decisions for Cicada doesn’t ensure it is released as a single toot bloody sweet, they ought to find themselves languishing in a dole queue for the rest of the summer.
Slap my wrist for such harshness, but if you give “Psycho Thrills” a listen below you will surely come to the same conclusion - this, amongst an album of splendid electro-pop, is surely a numero one single (despite something in the synths reminding me of Eric Clapton’s “Behind The Mask (?!)).
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It gives me no pleasure to have a dig at the frightfully beautiful Amerie, but “Why R U” sounds sadly R&B by numbers, doesn’t it?
From the instant classic “One Thing” through to her undeservedly overlooked last album Because I Love It (which barely had a release in the States), Amerie has tended to deliver pop fare of a distinctive and infectious nature. “Crush” remains one of the best pop songs most people never heard, for instance. “Why R U” unfortunately signals a change for the bland.
“Why R U” is the first track from forthcoming album In Love & War, which is to be released on Def Jam. Let’s hope deffer jams lie in wait… Until then I suppose we can always just look at her.
Regular readers (yeah, right) might have noticed that I can be a bit of a sucker for some zingy Europop, and this is never truer than when Mr Sunshine comes out to play.
Gathania’s “Blame It On You” fits into that category nicely, even though it’s actually a birrova sad tale if you listen to the lyrics.
Gathania, says the press release, is 2009’s “priority signing” for her label Hard2Beat, and they’ve spent time “planning a long term career strategy”. It’s a glamorous game and no mistake.
Buy “Blame It On You” on MP3 at 7Digital or iTunes from June 15th
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Stuart Waterman on
Tuesday June 2nd, 2009 at
9:50 am
Much sniggering was sniggered when the world learned that Adam Schlesinger of Fountains Of Wayne, James Iha ex-of Smashing Pumpkins and Cheap Trick’s drummer Bun E. Carlos would be starting a new band with Taylor Hanson of, er, Hanson. Taylor Hanson is a grown man with four children, but to many he’ll always be the fourteen year-old who looked like a girl and made a few million dollars doing it.
Tinted Windows’ self-titled debut album came out last week, and “Kind Of A Girl” is the first single from it. As the retro video suggests, it’s inspired by late 70s/early 80s powerpop like The Cars and The Knack, and it’s a suitably catchy, disposable little blighter. Not sure it’s as good as “Where’s The Love”, though, which I will defend until my dying day.
Not sure what that comment up there means exactly, but it made me LAOFMAOFOLR. It’s in response to Star Pilots’ relentless hookmonster of a pop nugget named “In The Heat Of The Night”. Or, more, accurately, it’s in response to a fan video of the song which features those famously oily volleyball scenes from Top Gun.
Because “In The Heat Of The Night”, for some reason, doesn’t have an official video as yet despite having floated about on the internet for about a year already.
UPDATE: It does now, and you can see it below. It features soapy womens.
Not that it really requires one - it’s not one of those numbers where you’re like “hmm, this euro-dance single is a bit oblique, I require soothing images to ease myself into its unique world”.
Nah. It’s a stomping 80s-worshipping cheesebugger which will dominate branches of TopShop, provincial bowling alleys and - if it gets a video - The Box for the entirety of summer 2009. It’s not officially out on our shores until May 11th, but you can check it out by lowering your line of vision and clicking the play button belowabouts.
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Stuart Waterman on
Thursday April 2nd, 2009 at
10:00 am
To whit, here are three decent Gloria Estefan moments you probably forgot existed.
1. “Get On Your Feet”
If we overlook the rather bossy title, this infectious little number sounds like it might have soundtracked a wacky montage in Three Men And A Baby. I’m not sure if it actually did, but it is undeniably “fun” and would sound just delightful over shots of nappies falling off little arses and men getting piss in their moustaches. Video after the jump.
I think this is the best thing I’ve heard from Frankmusik. It is very “now”, in a non-naff electro-pop kind of way.
I am rather fascinated with young fellamelad’s dancing, too. He looks like he’s trying to climb out of his skin, doesn’t he?
Have you ever climbed out of your skin? How did it feel? Did you throw the skin away, or retain it as a skin suit? When you tried to climb back in to your skin, did you manage to cram in all your intestines and muscles and stuff? Have you ever tried to climb into someone else’s skin? Have you ever sliced off someone’s face and(Come this way please sir - The po-po)
Cahill’s “Sex Shooter” is the song equivalent of that point on a Friday when you look at your Facebook and EVERYONE’s status is a variation of “Hooray, it is Friday and I am quite pleased about that.”
Only, when you experience “Sex Shooter” you don’t want to scream “YES I KNOW IT’S FUCKING FRIDAY, I’VE GOT A CALENDER YOU KNOW” - you just want to have a little dance and perhaps indulge in some sex shooting of your own. This is “funky house”, you see.
You’ll be pleased to learn that the video features women shooting each other with fluids, and then a pretty predictable bout of semi-clad cavorting around. Suddenly the term “funky house” has rather more bodily fragrance-related implications.
“Sex Shooter” is released as a single on 9th March. Prepare for the inevitable Daily Mail outrage by checking it out after the jump.
The material from the forthcoming Pet Shop Boys album Yes has been receiving feverish write-ups from Popjustice for a while now. Now us normals can here first single “Love etc” as well, alongside its spanking new animated video.
“Love Etc.” is one of those songs that tells you stuff like “too much of everything is never enough”, which is a theory with a ring of profundity until you realise it’s one that can only ever be proved/disproved by gazillionaires.
So yes, the thrust of the song is that you don’t need this and that, you need love. Which is clearly nonsense, but let’s not allow this to distract from the fact that this is a great pop song and more or less exactly what you’d hope for from Pet Shop Boys’ return. See the vid after the jump.
When an act is hyped two minutes after they’ve exited a recording studio, the backlash can arrive in similarly quick time. La Roux - who I think are to be referred to as a plural rather than a singular now - are beginning to get a taste of this. Or at least, those of us who waste our lives on the internet are. La Roux are probably too busy building an album or something to worry about such piffle.
“In For The Kill”, despite pleasing Eurythmics-style synths and, as per, excellent hair in the video, isn’t as good as “Quicksand” in my opinion. It also seems to go on for a bit too long.
I’m still holding out for a single release for “Reflections Are Protection”, which you can hear on her their MySpace, but in the meantime the new video is after the jump.
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