Bah to missing a potentially great Vanessa Carlton album -_-
I also forgot that Flood and Bounce were singles. aye. So not on top of my game
but your list is!
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JEIBERT'S Best of 2011 | A&MV: [#44] S: [#86-84] A: [#24] UP
OH LAND - "Oh Land"
Released: March 14, 2011
Genre: Pop, electronic, experimental
Label: Fake Diamond
Producers: Dan Carey, Dave McCracken, Lester Mendez
Oh Land! Everything about this girl fascinates me! Her voice, her music, plus she’s a great dancer too! She caught my attention when I was so impressed with “White Nights” video with its otherly world dimension of its theme, and it lead me to check out this album of hers which is brilliant. There were some songs hard to digest but her windy thin voice carries you to listen through. “Sun of a Gun”, “Voodoo”, “Rainbow” are the songs that you need to get into first. Second, it will tell you that she is indeed talented. And third, Seriously, she needs to be more recognized and be more successful, be BIG!
Favorite Tracks: : "White Nights", "Sun of a Gun", "Rainbow", "Voodoo", "Perfection", "Break the Chain", "Helicopter"
JENNIFER LOPEZ - "On the Floor" (featuring Pitbull)
Date Premiered: March 3, 2011 Director: TAJ Stansberry Favorite Scenes: Jennifer's scenes as a dominant queen of the party who watches from above, on a balcony surrounded by servants. Jennifer dances on a a circular stage on the Las Vegas-style dancefloor with the crowd surrounding her
"...Baby it's you, You're the one I love, You're the one I need, You're the only one I see, Come on baby it's you, You're the one that gives your all, You're the one I can always call, When I need you make everything stop, Finally you put my love on top! ..."
Well, this was an instant love at first listen when listening to the "4" album for the first time, and until now it remains my top favorite off it! Why? Because Queen Bee is giving me so much life in this 1st class R&B track, it somehow remind me of an upbeat Alicia Keys track and it's a great thing! while the song is influenced by the golden R&B eras too! The highlight of the song is the 4 vocal key changes towards the climax at the end! Only Bey could pull it through and done justice to it, IMO!
DR. DRE - "I Need a Doctor" (featuring Eminem & Skylar Grey)
"...I'm about to lose my mind, you've been gone for so long, I'm running out of time, I need a doctor, call me a doctor, I need a doctor, doctor, to bring me back to life...."
Album: Detox Release Date: February 1, 2011 Genre: Hip hop Length: 4:43 Label: Aftermath, Interscope Writer(s): Andre Young, Marshall Mathers, Holly Hafermann, Alex Grant Producer(s): Alex da Kid
Weeks on Chart:7 weeks Peak Position:#04
I consider this song as one of the earliest "juggernaut collaborations" this year! I mean, it's Em and Dre, in the track rapping about in talks about their relationship in their careers! And there goes Alex da Kid helming the song's production ala "Love the Way You Lie" and "Airplanes". But it was Skylar Grey's haunting vocals on the chorus once again made the song! It is indeed an epic collaboration and all the three shined their perspective parts on this!
GIRLS' GENERATION -"The Boys"
"...B-Bring the boys out! Girls' Generation make you feel the heat, And we're doin it, we can't be beat (B-Bring the boys out), We're born to win, better tell all your friends,Cuz we get it in, you know the girls (Bring the boys out)!..."
Album: The Boys Release Date: October 18, 2011 Genre: R&B, electropop, dance-pop Length: 3:48 Label: SM Entertainment, Universal, Interscope Writer(s): Yoo Youngjin, Teddy Riley, Taesung Kim, DOM, Richard Garcia Producer(s): Lee Soo Man
Weeks on Chart:5 weeks Peak Position:#04
And the highest K-Pop entry in this year's Best of belong to my one of my two favorite K-Pop girl groups, Girls' Generation! This song is the definition of fierce! the lyrics talks about female empowerment, the music contains military drum beats and hand claps, and every girl at the group has at least a line at the song! I'm so proud because this was released at the States and it reached as high as the 40's position in the iTunes chart! What an Eenglish debut that they had delivered in this! Definitely so impressed!
Origin: London, England Genres: Indie pop, indie rock, art rock, baroque pop, soul, experimental Label: Moshi Moshi, IAMSOUND, Island Members: Florence Welch, Robert Ackroyd, Christopher Lloyd Hayden, Isabella Summers, Tom Monger, Mark Saunders Website: florenceandthemachine.net
Although I'm aware of how they slay the UK with their "Lungs" album, It was like near 2 years ago that I discovered their material. So I decided to listen upon "Lungs" and at first, it wasnt a pleasure of a listen. I only liked the singles and I feel they are too dark for my taste, but I didn't stop my amazement on there. Then I began to "youtube" their live performances and wow! I am in utter shock of Florence's voice..it was like very soft, calm, and serene on the verses and woah!, it can scale into great heights of such vocal powers when she hits the high and long notes. That reminded me her as today's "Kate Bush"! Fast forward to this year, and Florence was getting more popular, she was on the cover on high fashion magazines (which were very elegant), which are examples that she'd be very fitting to be a model! And here comes the second album "Ceremonials", and now I'm totally hooked in!! LOVE <3