Dev Like Cassie (Mid Year Singles & Albums 2011)

Been meaning to gather up the tracks featuring Dev that are scattered across the 'Net and then give her a proper write-up, but in case the write-up never materializes, here's my thesis: Dev hits me in my Cassie spot. Their image and sound are different - Cassie's a model/starlet at an audition, while Dev is a 1950s shopgirl offhours, reincarnated in 2011, preparing for her Friday night. But they both have a drifting, inexplicable sexiness, Cassie's maybe more dreamy and Dev's more scrappy, but it feels like the same thing.

(Don't think Dev is at the Cassie point yet where she can do no wrong, but unlike anything recent from Cassie, some of her tracks are actually released for purchase and such.)

Singles:
1. Britney Spears "Hold It Against Me"
2. Jeremih "Down On Me"
3. GD&TOP "High High"
4. Galaxy Dream ft. Turbotronic "Ready 4or Romance"
5. IU "The Story Only I Didn't Know"
6. Bobby Brackins ft. Dev "A1"

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7. Big Bang "Tonight"
8. Far East Movement ft. Lil Jon & Colette Carr "Go Ape"
9. Dia Frampton "Heartless" (live)
10. GD&TOP "Knock Out"
( 11 through 50 )

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