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koganbotFar East Movement's "Like A G6" featuring The Cataracs and Dev is now in the top ten, the rigor of its electro being such a contrast to the dancepop mulch of its fellow winners that Dev's cheap bitchy vocals almost seem like wisdom. So, can last year's queen of brains Rihanna build on this bright news? Check under the cut.
Rihanna "Only Girl (In The World)": Starts by unexpectedly pulling Rihanna's voice away from its normal dark character and down to tiny baby talk, Britneyish, and this unexpectedly works, slight but precise in its beauty, even if I'm going "Where's Rihanna?" Then the music rises up, unfortunately, and though we do get something of Rihanna, she's hidden behind a scrim, while the rhythm section gives us another battering, pummeling 2010 dance, something you might expect more out of RedOne than Stargate, and even RedOne would have given this more of a glide. Rihanna, my love, what are you doing? BORDERLINE NONTICK.
Florence + The Machine "Dog Days Are Over": Flo does her patented warble 'n' quirk, and we wait for the inevitable music explosion, which comes as a big stomp, kinda fun, massive enough to take the edge off the caterwauling, Florence swaying and rocking more than she has a right to. But I'm not actually liking the melody, or the voice. BORDERLINE NONTICK.
Kings Of Leon "Radioactive": The verse sounds enough like Teddybears Sthlm's "Yours To Keep" that I keep wishing the strenuousness of "Radioactive" would give way to the nervously sweet plaintiveness of that one, though of course it doesn't. NO TICK.
Rihanna "Only Girl (In The World)": Starts by unexpectedly pulling Rihanna's voice away from its normal dark character and down to tiny baby talk, Britneyish, and this unexpectedly works, slight but precise in its beauty, even if I'm going "Where's Rihanna?" Then the music rises up, unfortunately, and though we do get something of Rihanna, she's hidden behind a scrim, while the rhythm section gives us another battering, pummeling 2010 dance, something you might expect more out of RedOne than Stargate, and even RedOne would have given this more of a glide. Rihanna, my love, what are you doing? BORDERLINE NONTICK.
Florence + The Machine "Dog Days Are Over": Flo does her patented warble 'n' quirk, and we wait for the inevitable music explosion, which comes as a big stomp, kinda fun, massive enough to take the edge off the caterwauling, Florence swaying and rocking more than she has a right to. But I'm not actually liking the melody, or the voice. BORDERLINE NONTICK.
Kings Of Leon "Radioactive": The verse sounds enough like Teddybears Sthlm's "Yours To Keep" that I keep wishing the strenuousness of "Radioactive" would give way to the nervously sweet plaintiveness of that one, though of course it doesn't. NO TICK.
