Released: March 2, 2011
Genre: Rock, pop, soft rock
Label: RCA
Producers: Avril Lavigne, Butch Walker, Deryck Whibley, Max Martin, Shellback
My Track Ranking:
1. Smile
2. Darlin'
3. Push
4. Wish You Were Here
5. What the Hell
6. I Love You
7. Everybody Hurts
8. Not Enough
9. Black Star
10. Alice
11. Goodbye
12. Remember When
13. 4 Real
14. Stop Standing There
"...All my life I've been good, But now...I'm thinking, "what the hell?", All I want is to mess around, And I don't really care about...If you love me, If you hate me, You can't save me, Baby, baby, All my life I've been good, But now...What the hell?...."
Album: Goodbye Lullaby Release Date: January 10, 2011 Genre: Pop punk, pop rock, pop Length: 3:39 Label: RCA Writer(s): Avril Lavigne, Max Martin, Shellback Producer(s): Max Martin, Shellback
Weeks on Chart:8 weeks Peak Position:#03
The first single off the album, a very reminiscent of the same old Avril we have witnessed through her entire career! Did she mature in her upbeat songs? No,!?!? did she deliver? For me, yes! Well, I got myself singing to its tune once in a while earlier this year! So Ramona, nice lyrics but the depth of it was predictable! No complaints though, no hates for the song totally! but I don't listen to it anymore at the moment to be honest! Give us songs like the other tracks off the album and we will praise ya! MORE!...
JEIBERT'S Best of 2011 | A&MV&A:[#14-7] S:[#26-12] BIG UPD8!
NICOLE SCHERZINGER - "Killer Love"
My Track Ranking:
1. Say Yes
2. Don't Hold Your Breath
3. Right There/Right There (featuring 50 Cent)
4. Try with Me
5. Trust Me I Lie
6. Poison
7. Killer Love
8. Club Banger Nation
9. Wet
10. Power's Out (featuring Sting)
11. AmenJena
12. Tomorrow Never Dies
13. Desperate
14. Casualty
15. You Will Be Loved
16. Heartbeat (Rudi Wells Open Heart Remix) (Enrique Iglesias featuring Nicole Scherzinger)
17. Everybody
PIXIE LOTT - "Young Foolish Happy"
My Track Ranking:
1. Nobody Does It Better
2. The Thing I Love
3. Paper Planes
4. Bright Lights (Good Life) Part II (with Tinchy Stryder)
5. We Just Go On
6. Love You to Death
7. Dancing on My Own (featuring Marty James)
8. Kiss the Stars
9. All About Tonight
10. What Do You Take Me For? (featuring Pusha T)
11. Birthday
12. You Win
13. Come Get It Now
14. Stevie on the Radio
15. Perfect
16. Till the Sun Comes Out
17. Black as Rain
18. I Throw My Hands Up
WYNTER - "With the Music I Die"
My Track Ranking:
1. Drunk on Your Love
2. Still Getting Younger
3. Dirty Talk
4. Til Death (Denzal Park Radio Edit)
5. Buy My Love
6. Don't Stop Me
7. Rumba (featuring Kevin McCall)
8. In the Morning (featuring Robbie Rivera)
9. Back to You
10. All My Life
LADY GAGA - "Born This Way"
My Track Ranking:
1. Scheiße
2. Judas
3. The Edge of Glory
4. Government Hooker
5. Heavy Metal Lover
6. Born This Way
7. Marry the Night
8. Black Jesus † Amen Fashion
9. Fashion of His Love
10. Hair
11. Bad Kids
12. Bloody Mary
13. Fashion of His Love
14. Highway Unicorn (Road to Love)
15. You and I
16. The Queen
17. Electric Chapel
FOSTER THE PEOPLE- "Torches"
My Track Ranking:
1. Call It What You Want
2. Houdini
3. I Would Do Anything for You
4. Life on the Nickel
5. Helena Beat
6. Warrant
7. Waste
8. Pumped Up Kicks
9. Don't Stop (Color on the Walls)
10. Miss You
DEMI LOVATO - "Unbroken"
My Track Ranking:
1. Give Your Heart a Break
2. Skyscraper
3. Lightweight
4. For the Love of a Daughter
5. Mistake
6. Hold Up
7. Together (featuring Jason Derülo)
8. Fix a Heart
9. Unbroken
10. All Night Long (featuring Missy Elliott and Timbaland)
11. Who's that Boy (featuring Dev)
12. In Real Life
13. My Love Is Like a Star
14. You're My Only Shorty (featuring Iyaz)
KELLY CLARKSON - "Stronger"
My Track Ranking:
1. What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger)
2. Standing in Front of You
3. Einstein
4. Honestly
5. The War Is Over
6. Let Me Down
7. Don't You Wanna Stay (with Jason Aldean)
8. Dark Side
9. You Love Me
10. You Can't Win
11. Mr. Know It All
12. Hello
13. I Forgive You
14. Alone
15. Don't Be a Girl About It
16. Breaking Your Own Heart
17. The Sun Will Rise (featuring Kara DioGuardi)
RIHANNA- "Talk that Talk"
My Track Ranking:
1. Where Have You Been
2. Watch n' Learn
3. Do Ya Thang
4. Drunk on Love
5. We Found Love (featuring Calvin Harris)
6. Cockiness (Love It)
7. Talk That Talk (featuring Jay-Z)
8. Roc Me Out
9. Farewell
10. Birthday Cake
11. You Da One
12. Fool in Love
13. We All Want Love
14. Red Lipstick
Albums: Torches, Stronger, TTT, BTW
Videos: I like them all.
Singles: 12/15 We found love, TTWE, Run the world, ****in' Perfect, Moves Like Jagger, Shake It Out
Artists: Adele, Foster, Avril, J.Lo
Released: December 5, 2011
Genre: Soul, blues, pop
Label: Syco Music, Epic
Producers: Steve Booker, Jonny Latimer, Fraser T. Smith, Mark Taylor, Eg White, Xenomania, Sam Holden
My Track Ranking:
1. Fairytale (Let Me Live My Life This Way)
2. Diamond to Stone
3. Fighting Suspicions
4. Run Free
5. Too Good to Lose
6. Shoulder To Shoulder
7. Teach Me How to Be Loved
8. Glitter & Gold
9. Nothing's Real but Love
10. Mr. Bright Eyes
Date Premiered: February 17, 2011 Director: Jonas Åkerlund Favorite Scenes: Spears appears wearing a white wedding dress inside a cylinder-shaped metal room with wires, and is surrounded by television monitors playing her past music videos; Britney begins to eject painting through IVs in her fingers, staining the room and the monitors; two versions of Spears, both wearing blue and red dresses with flowing trains, are seen fighting each other. After this, both versions of Spears, as well as her on the wedding dress, fall exhausted to the ground. While interspersed scenes of Spears in the soundstage are shown, the other versions of herself start to wake up
"...You can't touch me now, There's no feeling left, If you think I'm coming back, Don't hold your breath, What you did to me boy I can't forget, If you think I'm coming back, Don't hold your breath, Don't hold your breath...."
Album: Killer Love Release Date: March 10, 2011 Genre: Pop, Eurodance Length: 3:18 Label: A&M, Interscope Writer(s): Josh Alexander, Toby Gad, Billy Steinberg Producer(s): Carl Falk, Steve Josefsson, Rami
Weeks on Chart:10 weeks Peak Position:#01 (1 week)
Missing just a spot for the top 10 belongs to one of the BEST SONGS of the year! Hold your breath though because Nicole delivered us this pop perfection of a song! And probably one of the best Eurodance single of the year! The production in this song is just genius, it's giving me life with its elegance and command ability! So far, it's her best single in my opinion, and she did hit #1 - her first ever solo hit in the U.K. which she did rightfully so! It's even one of the top 5 songs in the first quarter for me...Ughh, it never gets old for me as well..All hails and praises! Nostalgia at its best at the chorus!
"...Kiss me, kiss me, Infect me with your love and, Fill me with your poison, Take me, take me, Wanna be a victim, Ready for abduction, Boy, you're an alien, Your touch so foreign, It's supernatural, Extraterrestrial...."
Album: Teenage Dream Release Date: February 16, 2011 Genre: Pop, electronic, hip hop Length: 3:51 Label: Capitol Writer(s): Katy Perry, Lukasz Gottwald, Max Martin, Joshua Coleman Producer(s): Dr. Luke, Ammo, Max Martin. Kanye West
Weeks on Chart:10 weeks Peak Position:#01 (2 weeks)
Yes! even in the early stages of the Teenage Dream albums, even it's just a leak, I know this masterpiece will definitely not be a left out/over and made the tracklisting! The whole song is just probably one of the most infectious/sing along song of the year! It's one of Katy's reckoning force of a single too! And the remix with Kanye is just another level. The music video offers its best, but the song takes me into another dimension! I can totally see myself in this whole thing, being an alien and when the chorus just kicks in, I'm getting lost in my mind, while chills are up in my spine! I'm ready to put my alien costume and chant into this song like I'm being possessed!
Birth Name: Nicole Prescovia Elikolani Valiente Born: June 29, 1978 (age 33) Origin: Honolulu, Hawaii, United States Genres: Pop, R&B, Hip hop Label: Interscope Website: nicolescherzingermusic.com
Such a hardworking talent! One of the most underrated out here in the music scene! Well, she can sing for sho! what a versatile singer! She can do R&B, acoustic, she got that rocker voice, she can reach up to octaves and octaves channeling her inner soprano register, she can do pop music at finest, her voice sounds good over club/electro dance, carribean tinged tunes and she can dance her ass off the floor! I'm totally into all this gurl has got to bring in the table! But that controversy of her judging abilities was criticized so hard/bad but kudos Nicole! I'm on her side on that issue. But it's just so sad, her career as a solo artist in the States, besides the Pussycat Dolls, is mere mediocre! The world may turn upside down but Im still here to appreciate her efforts!
AMAZING debut album...although Shoulder to Shoulder & Teach Me How To Be Loved are my top 2 (we always seem to have different taste when it comes to albums we love)
it missed out on my list THIS year, cuz my cut off is end of November, but if all continues right, i have no doubt it will be Top 10 next year
Videos:
Hold It Agaisnt Me!!!
AMAZING video, the ONLY thing that would have made this video better would have been if the director would have edited it better
Singles 1/2
not really a fan of Dont Hold Your Breath
but ET i liked the song when it first came out, but the video made me love the song WAY MORE