Year In America July 3 and 10, 2008
Jul. 16th, 2008 05:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
koganbotWas on vacation, so the Top 40 considerately added only four new tracks in two weeks.
The Jonas Brothers "Burnin' Up": OK song, nice placement of falsetto notes, but Joe and Nick sound even more like goats than they had previously, and Big Rob's rap is dumb and clumsy. Total botch. DEADNESS NOT TICKNESS.
Sugarland "All I Want To Do": First Sugarland song ever to make me perk up. Maybe it works 'cause everything in the arrangement focuses on Jennifer's hard sheen, which stops the "ooo ooo ooos" from being impossibly cute. Should've been even starker, harder, more glistening, but is ALL I WANT TO TICK ('cept tickin' DJ Khaled too).
NKOTB "Summertime": It's summer, and the original post-New Edition all white, all Boston boyband are back as men. Smooth niceness atop difficult offbeats, but strangely unemphatic. TICKLESS TIME.
DJ Khaled f. Akon, Rick Ross, Young Jeezy, Lil' Boosie, Trick Daddy, Ace Hood & Plies "Out Here Grindin'": In here typin', actually, w/ all those names. Akon dampens sounds more often than he lifts them, these days, but today's a good one, real prettiness while a thousand rappers pose, twirl, strut, or bellow, and Weezy sashays in uncredited, boasting and twisting, a regular irregular. OUT HERE TICKIN'.
The Jonas Brothers "Burnin' Up": OK song, nice placement of falsetto notes, but Joe and Nick sound even more like goats than they had previously, and Big Rob's rap is dumb and clumsy. Total botch. DEADNESS NOT TICKNESS.
Sugarland "All I Want To Do": First Sugarland song ever to make me perk up. Maybe it works 'cause everything in the arrangement focuses on Jennifer's hard sheen, which stops the "ooo ooo ooos" from being impossibly cute. Should've been even starker, harder, more glistening, but is ALL I WANT TO TICK ('cept tickin' DJ Khaled too).
NKOTB "Summertime": It's summer, and the original post-New Edition all white, all Boston boyband are back as men. Smooth niceness atop difficult offbeats, but strangely unemphatic. TICKLESS TIME.
DJ Khaled f. Akon, Rick Ross, Young Jeezy, Lil' Boosie, Trick Daddy, Ace Hood & Plies "Out Here Grindin'": In here typin', actually, w/ all those names. Akon dampens sounds more often than he lifts them, these days, but today's a good one, real prettiness while a thousand rappers pose, twirl, strut, or bellow, and Weezy sashays in uncredited, boasting and twisting, a regular irregular. OUT HERE TICKIN'.
