January 2011
24 posts
Holy Shit! Somebody else also voted for E.via in... →
Holy shit! Somebody else also voted for E.via in Pazz & Jop. Here’s Todd Kristel’s singles ballot:
1 DJ Zinc (ft. Ms. Dynamite), “Wile Out” (Zinc Music/Bingo Bass)
2 Vybz Kartel (ft. Popcaan & Gaza…
Problematic Korean Video Friday over at... →
As usual, I’m double posting this video here and at poptimists, on the off-chance that someone there will have something to say. The track is stomping r&b that’s intensified rather…
How much of understanding requires mimicry? →
Piece in the New York Times about smiling (“More to a Smile Than Lips and Teeth” by Carl Zimmer), with this potent passage:
Dr. Niedenthal herself is now testing the predictions of the model…
Still More Years In America January 20, 2011 →
When the camera tracks, you know it’s Max, and when the tracks track, you know it’s Max too, even if it’s a different Max, and this week we’ve got Max tracks to the max. Britney Spears…
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My ilX ballot, 2010: Crowded at the top →
Here’s my tracks and albums ballots for ilX’s 2011 poll. Difference between this and the other polls I do is that in this one we can only vote for tracks and albums that have been nominated…
Recent discoveries owing to the Singles Jukebox →
Recent discoveries owing to the Singles Jukebox:
—“I hear you produced this album all by yourself?” asks Zane. “Yes, with some help from other people,” replies Jamie…
Problematic Korean Video Friday over at... →
Orange Caramel’s “A~ing♡” is our problematic video of the week, which I posted over at poptimists, but since almost no one there writes comments anymore, I’m putting it up here as well…
Still More Years In America January 13, 2011 →
Bruno and Katy keep playing footsie with the top spot, and there’s not much more movement underneath.
Taio Cruz ft. Travie McCoy “Higher”: “Dynamite” threw…
Sounds/Ideas/Colours: Class doesn't matter,... →
tomewing:
No no I absolutely agree with you! - this is what I tried to imply by “fairer distribution of winners” - though I agree that something else which isn’t “privilege” as I’m understanding it here, but which also isn’t “fair”, might determine the lucky 100.
Oh yes, I see. I misread. We’re saying the exact same thing. I thought you were saying that if we had 10,000 bands with...
Sounds/Ideas/Colours: Class doesn't matter,... →
tomewing:
soundsideascolours:
Pop writer Dorian Lynskey has expanded on thoughts about pop and class, catalysed by a debate on Twitter amongst a coterie of music journalists, over at his blog - well worth reading.
I love this debate because it makes people awkward, angry and very often wrong. But for me, I don’t think this…
Both Christian’s and Dorian’s posts are worth reading! Here’s...
Top 95 Singles, 2010 →
Presumably if somehow Ke$ha and I are talking at a party, she realizes that I don’t come without chitchat, so the admonition “Don’t be a little bitch with your chitchat” isn’t in play. Or…
Classification query: Springloll →
Is this music indie or is it mainstream? Those categories give very different readings, but I really don’t know. (Where but in indie do you get away with those wan sketchy vocals? The answer could…
Still More Years In America January 6, 2011 →
The United States celebrates the New Year by adding no new songs to the Top 40. So here’s an album track by Jeremih: Jeremih “Holding On”
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Problematic Korean Video Friday over at... →
I posted T-ara’s “Ya Ya Ya” vid over at poptimists, and I’m posting here as well, since, if the past is any guide, the poptimist mass are too intimidated by the soberness and severity…
Poptimists/Freaky Trigger Poll Results →
Want to let those of you who don’t check Freaky Trigger regularly know that the results for the Poptimists/Freaky Trigger songs poll for 2011 are being posted throughout this week. This is…
ittookseconds:
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Yet Another Year In America December 30, 2010 →
So the year ended with a big whiff. The Lonely Island ft. Akon “I Just Had Sex”: I just took a shit. NO TICK. Keri Hilson “Pretty Girl Rock”: She rhymes “very” and “derriere,” asks us not to…
Chilean fangirl wonders if she can rap as fast as... →
Chilean fangirl wonders if she can rap as fast as E.via. First she tries it at home: Then she really gets it down, and takes it to the stage: I’m in awe!
My Kinda Party: My Country Critics Ballot, 2010 →
Here’s my ballot for the Nashville Scene’s Country Critics Poll. TOP TEN COUNTRY SINGLES OF 2010: 1. Little Big Town “Little White Church” 2. Sunny Sweeney “From A Table Away” 3. Martina McBride…