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Yet Another Year In America April 8, 2010
Apr. 8th, 2010 09:25 amThe top eight remains* unchanged, with "Hey Soul Sister" still too close to the top at number 3. Top eight seems unusually many for such stasis, but I actually haven't been tracking change versus unchange in the top ten except to notice the top three, usually. Ke$ha's "Your Love Is My Drug" re-enters the top 40, possibly as an official single, though this seems owing to popular demand (last I'd heard, "Take It Off" was being touted), "Your Love Is My Drug" already getting unsolicited airplay, perhaps. In this instance the populace is wrong, since "Your Love Is My Drug" is the least inventive or distinctive track on Animal. Flogs its clichés, eats, shoots, and leaves.**
( Usher )
( Diddy - Dirty Money )
*Uncertain whether this should be "remain" or "remains," but I went with the latter since I'm considering "top eight" as a collective singular*** like the top ten or the top forty, and I'm pointing out that this entity is unchanged in its constitution (i.e. song order), not that this song and that song and all songs within it remain unchanged in their individual constitutions. (This latter point is an oblique reference to events in Kyrgyzstan, pronounced /ˈkɜrɡɪstɑːn/; KUR-gi-stahn.)
**Do like the part in the middle eight where Ke$ha breaks into a compulsive-percussive breakbeat repetition of the phrase "your drug."
***Of course, with rock groups, for instance, I've been treating the collective as plural no matter what, simply as a convention since I habitually end up using the third-person plural pronoun as soon as a pronoun is necessary, so decided to go plural all the way. So, you know Public Enemy are punk rockers 'cause they bitch about rock crits and airwaves so much, etc.
( Usher )
( Diddy - Dirty Money )
*Uncertain whether this should be "remain" or "remains," but I went with the latter since I'm considering "top eight" as a collective singular*** like the top ten or the top forty, and I'm pointing out that this entity is unchanged in its constitution (i.e. song order), not that this song and that song and all songs within it remain unchanged in their individual constitutions. (This latter point is an oblique reference to events in Kyrgyzstan, pronounced /ˈkɜrɡɪstɑːn/; KUR-gi-stahn.)
**Do like the part in the middle eight where Ke$ha breaks into a compulsive-percussive breakbeat repetition of the phrase "your drug."
***Of course, with rock groups, for instance, I've been treating the collective as plural no matter what, simply as a convention since I habitually end up using the third-person plural pronoun as soon as a pronoun is necessary, so decided to go plural all the way. So, you know Public Enemy are punk rockers 'cause they bitch about rock crits and airwaves so much, etc.
