Year In America June 12, 2008
Jun. 13th, 2008 03:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
koganbotA day late again. Five tracks new to the American Top 40 yesterday. I'm awarding two of them ticks.
Pussycat Dolls "When I Grow Up": Deep voice, cutesy voice, sassy voice. Forceful rhythm with hunks of affect on top. Who cares? NO TICK.
Keyshia Cole "Heaven Sent": Subtle balance of wail and melisma that doesn't lose the sense of a voice speaking directly to a listener. Unfortunately the song isn't worth such skill. RELUCTANT NONTICK.
Young Jeezy f. Kanye West "Put On": Slow voice against slow mood. Unfolding drama. Great drifting mass. TICK.
V.I.C. f. Soulja Boy "Silly": They say "silly" a lot but this is remarkably noncatchy compared to the previous two Souljas. Producer Collipark packs a lot of sounds in without their tripping over each other, but the sounds are surprisingly uninspired. NO TICK.
Ne-Yo "Closer": The music pushes underneath while the voice tries to stay sweet. I think I'm finally getting this guy. A smoothy poised above a volcano. ERUPTING TICK.
Interesting song bubbling under: Flyleaf's "All Around Me" climbing after a long time to 43. Flyleaf are sort of Nirvana and Rage Against The Machine going Avril, live-wire screeching and emoting and growling, getting the Evanescence vote, I think. They were hitting the rock stations with "So Sick" back in 2005 when Ne-Yo was hitting the pop stations with "So Sick." Thing is, "All Around Me" is from the same album as "So Sick," making it as old as Robyn's "Be Mine!" Is a ballad, and is anemic compared to Flyleaf's better singles such as a more recent one, "Breathe Today," which barely got noticed.
Pussycat Dolls "When I Grow Up": Deep voice, cutesy voice, sassy voice. Forceful rhythm with hunks of affect on top. Who cares? NO TICK.
Keyshia Cole "Heaven Sent": Subtle balance of wail and melisma that doesn't lose the sense of a voice speaking directly to a listener. Unfortunately the song isn't worth such skill. RELUCTANT NONTICK.
Young Jeezy f. Kanye West "Put On": Slow voice against slow mood. Unfolding drama. Great drifting mass. TICK.
V.I.C. f. Soulja Boy "Silly": They say "silly" a lot but this is remarkably noncatchy compared to the previous two Souljas. Producer Collipark packs a lot of sounds in without their tripping over each other, but the sounds are surprisingly uninspired. NO TICK.
Ne-Yo "Closer": The music pushes underneath while the voice tries to stay sweet. I think I'm finally getting this guy. A smoothy poised above a volcano. ERUPTING TICK.
Interesting song bubbling under: Flyleaf's "All Around Me" climbing after a long time to 43. Flyleaf are sort of Nirvana and Rage Against The Machine going Avril, live-wire screeching and emoting and growling, getting the Evanescence vote, I think. They were hitting the rock stations with "So Sick" back in 2005 when Ne-Yo was hitting the pop stations with "So Sick." Thing is, "All Around Me" is from the same album as "So Sick," making it as old as Robyn's "Be Mine!" Is a ballad, and is anemic compared to Flyleaf's better singles such as a more recent one, "Breathe Today," which barely got noticed.
