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Post by backintime on Jul 15, 2011 18:19:45 GMT -5
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Post by backintime on Jul 15, 2011 11:04:23 GMT -5
Yeah, the lyrics are juvinile, but it's Avril Lavigne. Apart from the verses I LOVE every aspect of this song. The opening guitar riff is catchy as hell, the pre-chrous builds up really well and the chorus itself sounds like it's straight out of a classic pop song. Even the storyline in the video is cute, despite the studio scenes having the typical I'M PUNK RAWK LOL GREEN AND PINK SPRAYPAINT LOL Avril look. Probably my favourite single from her since "I'm With You".
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Post by backintime on Jul 10, 2011 13:24:03 GMT -5
#1 in the UK. The first ever dubstep chart topper. I'm not sure what the previous highest charting dubstep single was, but I believe it was Katy B's "Katy On A Mission", which reached #5 last September.
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Post by backintime on Jun 22, 2011 6:32:38 GMT -5
Also does Pop's core audience give a crap about Mick Jagger? lol
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Post by backintime on Jun 16, 2011 6:02:56 GMT -5
This just makes me want to listen to "Return Of The Mack".
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Post by backintime on Jun 16, 2011 6:01:47 GMT -5
HATE this and I love both of them.
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Post by backintime on Jun 14, 2011 18:30:02 GMT -5
Yeah, this is just boring, whereas "The Time" is AWFUL.
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Post by backintime on Jun 12, 2011 16:21:02 GMT -5
The idea of Katy Perry playing a geek who gets an 80s movie makeover in a video full of Glee cast members and dodgy cheese icons sounds so right up my street it's not even funny, and yet I thought it was barely passable. Normally I like Katy despite all her obvious flaws, but for this video I don't like her despite all the obvious positives. I don't know.
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Post by backintime on Jun 12, 2011 9:43:29 GMT -5
LOVE this. It's such a grower. And yeah, he's one of those artists that really disparate people seem to like.
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Post by backintime on Jun 11, 2011 11:20:47 GMT -5
This video for this is creepy.
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Post by backintime on Jun 11, 2011 10:23:05 GMT -5
This comes out in a couple of weeks in the UK. I think it's going to go straight to #1.
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Post by backintime on Jun 11, 2011 8:55:36 GMT -5
He's one of those artists who I think has potential, and I keep thinking his next single is going to be the one to click with me and it never does. I thought "Watch The Sun Come Up" was going to be like a heater, and then "Won't Go Quietly" wasn't even as good as that. "Kickstarts" was a lot better, but still not AMAZING, and then "Last Ones Standing" and this are both catchy, but annoying as hell. I thought at least I'd love the lead single from his third album... but I don't.
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Post by backintime on Jun 10, 2011 8:18:12 GMT -5
I haven't heard anything like that and Google News doesn't bring anything up either.
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Post by backintime on Jun 3, 2011 6:22:44 GMT -5
I love it! It's nowhere near as good as "Violet Hill" for me, but I love how upbeat it is. I could see it having the potential to get annoying though.
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Post by backintime on May 30, 2011 17:33:26 GMT -5
LOVE this. I thought "Punching In A Dream" just sounded like a second-rate MGMT. Check out "Girls Like You", which is out in the UK on June 5. It's the polar opposite to this song, but it's turning into one of my favourite singles of the year. It's so subtle, but once you really just sit, focus on it and listen to the lyrics it'll hit you. Incredible song.
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Post by backintime on May 30, 2011 17:30:21 GMT -5
This is alright. It's easily my least favourite lead single by them ever. They really fell off between Favourite Worst Nightmare and Humbug, and their new album hasn't done much to reverse that trend for me.
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Post by backintime on May 30, 2011 17:28:37 GMT -5
I know it's not a popular opinion, but this is one of my favourites by them ever. The electric guitar is so subtley catchy and I love the drums. I think the lyrics are really poignant too.
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Post by backintime on May 24, 2011 13:10:55 GMT -5
I was just wondering when they were coming back the other day, so I went on YouTube to watch some of their old videos, and lo-and-behold I saw this! This is the kind of sound they should have come back with on their second album. That album was too much of a weak retread of their debut and now this song sounds like something that should have come out at the height of Mark Ronson's domination in 2006-7 on their second album. It underscores my thoughts that there's no place for them in music anymore, much as I like them. There seems to be a lot of acts that peaked around that time that are so tied musically and thematically to the mid-noughties and it dates them. Hard-Fi were big in 2005, but it feels like much longer than six years ago to me. I get the same feeling with Arctic Monkeys, who I always felt were like the northern equivalent of Hard-Fi. They just seem so out of place in modern day music.
Anyway, I do like the song, but the fact that it sounds like a landfill indie "99 Problems" produced by Mark Ronson really adds to my feeling that this belongs in the last decade.
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Post by backintime on May 23, 2011 18:21:05 GMT -5
So back to this being a hit in the UK because of "Show Me Love". I heard this on the radio earlier and they read out a bunch of texts afterward complaining about how dare they rip that song off. I mean, it doesn't mean anything because of course this is going to #1 everywhere and I've heard bigger songs get worse reactions, but still. It really says something about how much of a classic that song is here. It's probably the recurrent I've heard most on the radio in my whole life.
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Post by backintime on May 23, 2011 18:17:23 GMT -5
I don't like this at all, which is a real shame because "One" and "Miami 2 Ibiza" were my favourite dance songs of last year, and the latter was probably in my top three all-genre songs of 2010. I'm not a big fan of the rock vocals over a dance beat thing.
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Post by backintime on May 18, 2011 17:06:53 GMT -5
Ok maybe that was a bit of an overstatement but being Transatlantic, I can say that UK people definitely know his stuff as "that Jason Derulo song" while US people are more like "that Whatcha Say song." That's only because he opens all his songs with JASONNNNN DERUUUULOOO. Is the UK the only county that's picked up on that?
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Post by backintime on May 12, 2011 8:35:34 GMT -5
I WANT to like this. But I can't get into it. Considering "Hello" is one of my favourite songs of the year and Bloc Party is one of my favourite bands I'm shocked how little I like this.
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Post by backintime on May 12, 2011 8:34:17 GMT -5
This will be HUGE in the UK Yep. where they A) are still obsessed with "Show Me Love" Yep. and B) actually give a sh*t about Jason DeRulo as a celebrity. Um... who on earth gives a sh*t about Jason Derulo as a person?
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Post by backintime on Mar 18, 2011 12:37:34 GMT -5
This needs to end, like days ago.
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Post by backintime on Feb 15, 2011 19:48:54 GMT -5
He was fantastic again at the Brits. He's such a great performer. It's great to have someone who I guess you could call a veteran breaking through with his solo career at such a late stage. It means he's already so natural and polished that his breakthrough performances are of such a high standard.
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