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koganbotFamiliar faces as the summer stumbles to a close.
Lady GaGa "Paparazzi": Fan stalking a star? Or just pursuing a guy she knows, while comparing her determination to that of the paparazzi? The idea is too clumsy to form itself, and there's a sense of stupidity up top, with GaGa half in baby talk, but the music achieves an undeniable obsessiveness: twisting beats, oozing harmonies, and big slabs of synthesizer. TICK.
Kelly Clarkson "Already Gone": Kelly's voice has been emptied out through a strainer and she's been given an OK tune that registers as nothing in particular. Not dreadful, but Kelly's most negligible single ever. NO TICK.
Cascada "Evacuate The Dancefloor": Verses have the squiggly dance decor of Britney's Blackout, though with nothing like Blackout's crawling libidinal energy. The chorus moves us to solid Europop, the whole thing being neither fish nor foul but having nice moments, even if it never really flies, or swims. BORDERLINE TICK.
Lady GaGa "Paparazzi": Fan stalking a star? Or just pursuing a guy she knows, while comparing her determination to that of the paparazzi? The idea is too clumsy to form itself, and there's a sense of stupidity up top, with GaGa half in baby talk, but the music achieves an undeniable obsessiveness: twisting beats, oozing harmonies, and big slabs of synthesizer. TICK.
Kelly Clarkson "Already Gone": Kelly's voice has been emptied out through a strainer and she's been given an OK tune that registers as nothing in particular. Not dreadful, but Kelly's most negligible single ever. NO TICK.
Cascada "Evacuate The Dancefloor": Verses have the squiggly dance decor of Britney's Blackout, though with nothing like Blackout's crawling libidinal energy. The chorus moves us to solid Europop, the whole thing being neither fish nor foul but having nice moments, even if it never really flies, or swims. BORDERLINE TICK.
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Date: 2009-09-20 09:47 pm (UTC)