Year In America September 4, 2008
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koganbotP!nk jumps into the top five and M.I.A. returns to it, Archuleta fades quickly, while a couple of old pop-grunge loveboys reappear and whole hunks o' country loll about between forty-one and fifty. A few newb tracks achieve OKness.
Katy Perry "Hot N Cold": Gratingly obvious words once again, and even more gratingly obvious singing, not at all sexy, and the track is nowhere near as gripping as "I Kissed A Girl." But enough prettiness works its way in around the edges to earn this a BORDERLINE TICK.
Ne-Yo "Miss Independent": I've the same reaction I had three days ago on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
poptimists: beauty at the very start drifts into humdrum but then a bit of beauty seeps in again. BORDERLINE TICK.
Gavin Rossdale "Love Remains The Same": The title is already a drawback (what? love remains predictable?). "Everything we know fades to black." Oh, I guess he means that love returns, or perseveres despite everything, as he fights his way through the lyrics. ("Gravity like lunar landing"?) Thought this guy got something of a bad rap from the critics when he was the grunge matinée idol in Bush, but this track is completely unremarkable, stretched between pain and blah. LOVE REMAINS UNTICKED.
Jimmy Wayne "Do You Believe Me Now?": Lite air-brushed pop country, with a tad of contemporary Nashville's rocked-up force. Lyrics have an interesting premise (he perceives the romance that's developing between his woman and another guy before she perceives it), but the exposition is wooden. "He saw our love was having a moment of weakness." The singing and vibe are nice enough in their liteness for a BORDERLINE TICK, though it's stuff like this that reminds me that knee-jerk critics of pop country sometimes have a point.
Darius Rucker "Don't Think I Don't Think About It": He never had any appeal to me as the slightly grunged-up Hootie man back in the '90s, and his voice is too stiff and clumsy for his switch now to country love-man. Song starts gentle and OK but loses its warmth and presence in the chorus. I DON'T TICK ABOUT IT.
Katy Perry "Hot N Cold": Gratingly obvious words once again, and even more gratingly obvious singing, not at all sexy, and the track is nowhere near as gripping as "I Kissed A Girl." But enough prettiness works its way in around the edges to earn this a BORDERLINE TICK.
Ne-Yo "Miss Independent": I've the same reaction I had three days ago on
poptimists: beauty at the very start drifts into humdrum but then a bit of beauty seeps in again. BORDERLINE TICK.Gavin Rossdale "Love Remains The Same": The title is already a drawback (what? love remains predictable?). "Everything we know fades to black." Oh, I guess he means that love returns, or perseveres despite everything, as he fights his way through the lyrics. ("Gravity like lunar landing"?) Thought this guy got something of a bad rap from the critics when he was the grunge matinée idol in Bush, but this track is completely unremarkable, stretched between pain and blah. LOVE REMAINS UNTICKED.
Jimmy Wayne "Do You Believe Me Now?": Lite air-brushed pop country, with a tad of contemporary Nashville's rocked-up force. Lyrics have an interesting premise (he perceives the romance that's developing between his woman and another guy before she perceives it), but the exposition is wooden. "He saw our love was having a moment of weakness." The singing and vibe are nice enough in their liteness for a BORDERLINE TICK, though it's stuff like this that reminds me that knee-jerk critics of pop country sometimes have a point.
Darius Rucker "Don't Think I Don't Think About It": He never had any appeal to me as the slightly grunged-up Hootie man back in the '90s, and his voice is too stiff and clumsy for his switch now to country love-man. Song starts gentle and OK but loses its warmth and presence in the chorus. I DON'T TICK ABOUT IT.
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