Yet Another Year In America December 30, 2010

[koganbot]

So the year ended with a big whiff.

The Lonely Island ft. Akon "I Just Had Sex": I just took a shit. NO TICK.

Keri Hilson "Pretty Girl Rock": She rhymes "very" and "derriere," asks us not to hate her 'cause she's beautiful, so I guess this is a send-up of something or other. Slick, pleasing, forgettable. I don't understand Keri, why half the time she deliberately goes slight and blank. Does she think it's stylish? BORDERLINE NONTICK.

Far East Movement ft. Ryan Tedder "Rocketeer": The song's a passably pretty smoothie, given rough dumpster-lid beats that don't make it any less negligible. Usually dance groups save something like this for their third or fourth single, the track where they get all sentimental and show their supposed emotional range. As a number two, it's a momentum killer, at least for me, though it's hitting the chart so what do I know? But man, they've got much better tracks than this. NO TICK.

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[koganbot]

Good, I'll try to hear it the way you do. It's a pretty tune, and indeed is playful, so maybe I can come to see the slightness as a virtue, like here's a nice little wisp and a tendril.