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Week is more strange than dominating, but has a lot that's intriguing.

Kanye West "Heartless": Slow singing over slow quasi-dub. I fear the glinting Auto-Tune will become bothersome over multiple listens, but I'm impressed with Kanye's pacing, how he keeps the drama going by holding back the changes. TICK.

Taylor Swift "You Belong With Me": With "Love Story" the actual focus single, the record company keeps releasing other tracks to build album sales. So this week "You Belong With Me" rises while the far better "You're Not Sorry" tumbles. Anyhow, this time she explains in exhaustive detail how she's more sensibility-and-sartorially compatible with the boy than is the cheerleader queen he's stuck on. The vocal rings out high on the passable chorus, but the real heat is in the verses and their underlying murmers of sadness. TICK.

Paramore "Decode": Sounds like Katy Perry being uncharacteristically introspective and gothy - which is to say that this is blaringly introspective and shrilly goth. BORDERLINE TICK.

Beyoncé "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)": Big workout, decorated in pretty ribbons with intrusions here and there of agony. I'm damned if I know what to think, but that's worth a tick in itself. TICK.

O.A.R. "Shattered (Turn The Car Around)": Guitars yearn to be orchestras, keyboards yearn to be bells, singer plants his feet and yearns to fly. Good melody can't overcome the mediocrity of the presentation. NO TICK

Date: 2008-11-14 08:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] piratemoggy.livejournal.com
Oh god, that Paramore... it might be good if Hayley Williams wasn't singing it (her voice annoys me hugely when she pushes it beyond its snotty punk limits and she's annoying when she's being a snotty punk so...) but ...argh. Maybe I'm just biased against it because it's related to Twilight but really. Also the riff in the solo is the "you're gunna make me make me love you" bit from 'The Promise' innit.

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