Why in the holy living **** do I like this so much?
I have no idea. I'm fully aware it's total shit. I'm fully aware it's patronising BE YOURSELF garbage from some priviliged middle-class church girl. But it's so super feel good and I get happy when it comes on. Don't judge.
Just discovered this in the last week. Stunning effort.
Nominated for BBC Sound of 2014- she's nailed on to be massive. She's kinda like a Kate Nash/La Roux hybrid- electro-pop with an attitude. Can't wait to hear more from her.
Well, actually, it's just a video with lots of paint-blobs on it. With a really good pop-rock chorus.
Thanks for watching. Tomorrow-ish I'll get into my Top 20. It gets way more generic from here on out, it's what I've had on playlist constantly ad infinitum.
I love when people remix 90's hits and do it WELL. Contemporary with retro. Contemporetro? Bastille's entire album was kinda pleasing but nothing extraordinary; Pompeii aside. But this? Bop central.
As well as having one truly amazing single each era (Up, Ego, Higher, All Fired Up, Disco Love), The Sats always deliver a brilliant track that's resigned to album track irrelevance (Lies, One Shot, Puppet, Get Ready Get Set, THIS!). That's the thing with these girls. They've got all the pieces in their chess set ready to be the queens- but Career is Over? If this is Low on the Chart? Gentlesleep?
This was the UK Top 3 follow-up to What About Us that just never happened. It's All Fired Up 2.0, but when the former is 11/10 why shouldn't this be too?
17. Cher Lloyd (ft. Demi Lovato)- Really Don't Cher
Yeah, listen up!
Hey, hey, never look back! Dumb struck boy, ego intact
Look boy- why you so mad?
Second guessin, but shoulda hit that...
Hey, Emeli! You picked the wrong lover
Shoulda picked that one, he's cuter than the other
I just wanna laugh, cause you tryna be a hipster..
Kick it to the curb, take a Polaroid pictureahhhhhhh!
The best thing she's done since....Charmbracelet? (YES, CHARMBRACELET IS AMAZING.)
Too bad that The Art of Pushing Back wasn't released on the momentum of this- it's a bona fide, feel-good summer anthem that broke through the ageism of radio, the stigma that Mariah and her larger-than-life personality carries and the fact that bloody Triumphant preceded it. Totally epitomises the sound of this summer better than I think any youthful "major" urban-leaning girl could do.
I certainly try not to keep it quiet that I'm one of ARTPOP's biggest supporters on ATRL.
Like, who tha **** cares who much something sells unless it's Emeli Sandé, and you want to use it to annoy Beyoncé stans?
There's plenty of songs I feel come close to just having everything I want in a pop song on this record- and MJH is but one. The production is absolutely sublime. The lyrics are suitably manic. The bridge is astonishingly life-providing. I feel rich as PlSS when it comes on. It's still soooooo good.
Ciara put out a great follow-up to the lame duck that was Basic Instinct. It was called Ciara, which is the name of Ciara. Ciara released Ciara, and did Super Turnt Up (ft. Ciara).
Ciara.
So ideally? I would have opted for Got Me Good. However, that was solidly a 2012 song and totally ineligible. And then Overdose? I'm Out? Both extraordinary too. But this was by far the best. When you get to the big drop- I kinda wet myself in a white way.
Of course it ain't no Misery Business. Or Decoy. Or Emergency. Or Let the Flames Begin.
But it's better than everything else a girl leading a band did in any kind of genre all bloody year. Total pop-rock goodness. The chorus is still god damn inescapable. One band that have grown, progressed, reached a peak but not rested on their laurels about it.
The girl has litch never put a foot wrong or released a bad song- ever. Excellent production, brilliantly-memorable chorus. So instant. How this isn't a UK #1 and a US crossover is beyond me.
Little Red, her second album, will be the album of 2014. Calling it now!
