Another Year In America June 4, 2009
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koganbotInteresting event that either does or doesn't portend something about the future of music distribution: two of the three newbies to the Top 40 are there because of downloads of The Girls Love Drake, a bootleg Drake compilation LP that uses selected tracks from Drake's So Far Gone mixtape and other sources. The Billboard story says, "'Best I Ever Had' and 'Every Girl' (credited to Young Money), two tracks on the mixtape that have previously charted, appear on this week's Hot Digital Songs chart thanks to downloads of The Girls Love Drake. Additionally, 'Best I Ever Had' jumps 60-18 on the Billboard 200 [they mean The Hot 100, actually], while 'Every Girl' leaps 75-35, although chart experts predict they will both drop again once the unofficial album is no longer available." (So, Billboard's singles formula includes album downloads. Didn't know that.)
Meanwhile, Pink's "Please Don't Leave Me" slowly builds its sales and airplay, which is a frequent pattern with Pink singles, for some reason.
Drake "Best I Ever Had": Simple sentiments over complicated beats. Kind of a drag. BORDERLINE NONTICK.
Pink "Please Don't Leave Me": Pink creates her mess and struggles against it, the result being quite touching, as if the melody were treating the singer with the tenderness that the lyrics plead for. I'd overlooked Funhouse when it appeared last year, but from the sound of it Pink is maybe at least some of the time finding her musical balance, finally. TICK.
Young Money f. Lil Wayne, Drake, Jae Millz, Gudda Gudda & Mack Maine "Every Girl": Group goes, "We like her," Wayne replies, "And we like cartoons" - well, that's how I first heard it; he's really singing "And we like her too," "her" being potentially any young woman that any one of these men has the hots for. A strange palette here, apparent lushness that's actually threadbare, the AutoTune a hypothetical attempt at tunefulness. BORDERLINE NONTICK.
Meanwhile, Pink's "Please Don't Leave Me" slowly builds its sales and airplay, which is a frequent pattern with Pink singles, for some reason.
Drake "Best I Ever Had": Simple sentiments over complicated beats. Kind of a drag. BORDERLINE NONTICK.
Pink "Please Don't Leave Me": Pink creates her mess and struggles against it, the result being quite touching, as if the melody were treating the singer with the tenderness that the lyrics plead for. I'd overlooked Funhouse when it appeared last year, but from the sound of it Pink is maybe at least some of the time finding her musical balance, finally. TICK.
Young Money f. Lil Wayne, Drake, Jae Millz, Gudda Gudda & Mack Maine "Every Girl": Group goes, "We like her," Wayne replies, "And we like cartoons" - well, that's how I first heard it; he's really singing "And we like her too," "her" being potentially any young woman that any one of these men has the hots for. A strange palette here, apparent lushness that's actually threadbare, the AutoTune a hypothetical attempt at tunefulness. BORDERLINE NONTICK.
