Once you get past that inexcusably bad pun of a title, think of this scenario. Say you are presented with two choices. And you only get to pick one. And the one you do not pick will melt and dissolve into the cement leaving only a sour odour of dissapointment, not to be available ever again in the universe.
Exhibit A:
© Island Records Group 2009
Exhibit B:
© All Around The World Records 2004
Nothing against Frankmusik who is amazing and clearly worthy of all the accolades and attention he gets, but we'd go with the second option, which clearly showed a greater degree of potential and creativity in the shitty world of R&B, rap and hip hop. :(
Sunday, 29 March 2009
Tuesday, 24 March 2009
Anthonio
Obviously one of the best songs that will be released ever. Excuse me while I put the clip on loop and sit in a corner.
Saturday, 31 January 2009
Top Honours 2008
After much deliberation, it has been decided that...
Pop Artist of the Year
Beyoncé
Britney Spears
Gabriella Cilmi
Katy Perry
Sarah Brightman
While they were all special in one way or another, Katy Perry stormed through 2008 with I Kissed A Girl and Hot N Cold which basically charted everywhere and were great songs themselves. Coming second was Britney Spears with her massive, A-rated comeback followed by Sarah Brightman thanks to her accomplished studio effort "Symphony" and her work on the soundtrack of "Repo: The Genetic Opera".
Pop Group/Duo of the Year
Girls Aloud
Goldfrapp
The Saturdays
Take That
The Ting Tings
Arguably also deserved by The Ting Tings who came out from nowhere and produced a brilliant set of tunes, Girls Aloud wins here for their significant releases in 2008, among them the Top 10 hit Can't Speak French and their number one chart entry "The Promise" that showed just how some music never gets tiring.
Pop Song of the Year
Gabriella Cilmi - Sweet About Me
Girls Aloud - The Promise
Goldfrapp - A&E
Sarah McLachlan - U Want Me 2
The Ting Tings - Shut Up And Let Me Go
Making a clean sweep at the ARIA Awards showed how much potential this young woman had as an artist, and her album has gotten some positive remarks from critics worldwide as well. But this track, Sweet About Me, will be a classic, one that will be played decades from now on for its sheer catchiness.
Pop Album of the Year
Girls Aloud - Out Of Control
Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
Sharleen Spiteri - Melody
The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing
Yael Naim - Yael Naim
The Ting Tings narrowly edged out the Girls' effort due to their innovation and creativity, as heard in their songs. That's Not My Name, annoying but brilliant, was a number one hit for them, while the ever amazing Shut Up And Let Me Go won the hearts of music listeners both sides of the ocean.
Foreign Artist of the Year
Ami Suzuki
Ayumi Hamasaki
Hikaru Utada
Alan
Yuna Ito
For her ultimately excellent album Heart Station, Utada beats pop diva Ayumi Hamasaki in this category despite the latter releasing some of her best work in recent times. However, Utada is no stranger to awards, with every release of hers gaining well-deserved attention from the public.
Foreign Song of the Year
Ayumi Hamasaki - Days
Ayumi Hamasaki - Green
Ayumi Hamasaki - Mirrorcle World
Hikaru Utada - Stay Gold
Yuna Ito - miss you
Having three songs in the nominees list might have been a bit of a feat to pull off, but Hamasaki's A-sides in 2008 were so strong they deserved more than they got. Despite being number ones, their sales figures were paltry compared to the sales of her Top 10 singles many years ago. A close contender for this honour was Utada's Stay Gold, but Green won for the way it plays out in an epic manner.
Foreign Single of the Year
Alan - ひとつ
Ayumi Hamasaki - Days/Green
Hitomi Shimatani - 雨の日には雨の中を風の日には風の中を
Namie Amuro - 60s 70s 80s
Yuna Ito - miss you
As mentioned before, Hamasaki's 2008 singles were some of her best in recent years, and Days/Green boasts two excellent A-sides that showed her knack for a ear-catching melody, narrowly beating out Alan's ひとつ.
Foreign Album of the Year
Ami Suzuki - Supreme Show
Ayumi Hamasaki - Guilty
Hikaru Utada - Heart Station
Kumi Koda - Kingdom
Mika Nakashima - Voice
Heart Station was shocking; it was everything an album should be. All the tracks were single-worthy and unique, yet they melded together perfectly. Critics and fans alike may point out that the album contains outtakes from previous studio effort Ultra Blue, but why waste some brilliant songs when you can make them work together?
Newcomer of the Year
Duffy
Gabriella Cilmi
Katy Perry
Alan
The Ting Tings
Both The Ting Tings and Katy Perry brought a strong fascination for music when their songs first debuted on the radio. Perry's I Kissed A Girl was both controversial and superb, while That's Not My Name gave a sense of originality while boasting a hok that pounds itself into your head. While both won over fans like no other, The Ting Tings deserve this honour more for being one of a kind; no other bands of the moment sound or even look like them.
That's all we have folks, here's to 2009 bringing us more of the "same old shit" as Popjustice would say.
Pop Artist of the Year
Beyoncé
Britney Spears
Gabriella Cilmi
Katy Perry
Sarah Brightman
While they were all special in one way or another, Katy Perry stormed through 2008 with I Kissed A Girl and Hot N Cold which basically charted everywhere and were great songs themselves. Coming second was Britney Spears with her massive, A-rated comeback followed by Sarah Brightman thanks to her accomplished studio effort "Symphony" and her work on the soundtrack of "Repo: The Genetic Opera".
Pop Group/Duo of the Year
Girls Aloud
Goldfrapp
The Saturdays
Take That
The Ting Tings
Arguably also deserved by The Ting Tings who came out from nowhere and produced a brilliant set of tunes, Girls Aloud wins here for their significant releases in 2008, among them the Top 10 hit Can't Speak French and their number one chart entry "The Promise" that showed just how some music never gets tiring.
Pop Song of the Year
Gabriella Cilmi - Sweet About Me
Girls Aloud - The Promise
Goldfrapp - A&E
Sarah McLachlan - U Want Me 2
The Ting Tings - Shut Up And Let Me Go
Making a clean sweep at the ARIA Awards showed how much potential this young woman had as an artist, and her album has gotten some positive remarks from critics worldwide as well. But this track, Sweet About Me, will be a classic, one that will be played decades from now on for its sheer catchiness.
Pop Album of the Year
Girls Aloud - Out Of Control
Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
Sharleen Spiteri - Melody
The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing
Yael Naim - Yael Naim
The Ting Tings narrowly edged out the Girls' effort due to their innovation and creativity, as heard in their songs. That's Not My Name, annoying but brilliant, was a number one hit for them, while the ever amazing Shut Up And Let Me Go won the hearts of music listeners both sides of the ocean.
Foreign Artist of the Year
Ami Suzuki
Ayumi Hamasaki
Hikaru Utada
Alan
Yuna Ito
For her ultimately excellent album Heart Station, Utada beats pop diva Ayumi Hamasaki in this category despite the latter releasing some of her best work in recent times. However, Utada is no stranger to awards, with every release of hers gaining well-deserved attention from the public.
Foreign Song of the Year
Ayumi Hamasaki - Days
Ayumi Hamasaki - Green
Ayumi Hamasaki - Mirrorcle World
Hikaru Utada - Stay Gold
Yuna Ito - miss you
Having three songs in the nominees list might have been a bit of a feat to pull off, but Hamasaki's A-sides in 2008 were so strong they deserved more than they got. Despite being number ones, their sales figures were paltry compared to the sales of her Top 10 singles many years ago. A close contender for this honour was Utada's Stay Gold, but Green won for the way it plays out in an epic manner.
Foreign Single of the Year
Alan - ひとつ
Ayumi Hamasaki - Days/Green
Hitomi Shimatani - 雨の日には雨の中を風の日には風の中を
Namie Amuro - 60s 70s 80s
Yuna Ito - miss you
As mentioned before, Hamasaki's 2008 singles were some of her best in recent years, and Days/Green boasts two excellent A-sides that showed her knack for a ear-catching melody, narrowly beating out Alan's ひとつ.
Foreign Album of the Year
Ami Suzuki - Supreme Show
Ayumi Hamasaki - Guilty
Hikaru Utada - Heart Station
Kumi Koda - Kingdom
Mika Nakashima - Voice
Heart Station was shocking; it was everything an album should be. All the tracks were single-worthy and unique, yet they melded together perfectly. Critics and fans alike may point out that the album contains outtakes from previous studio effort Ultra Blue, but why waste some brilliant songs when you can make them work together?
Newcomer of the Year
Duffy
Gabriella Cilmi
Katy Perry
Alan
The Ting Tings
Both The Ting Tings and Katy Perry brought a strong fascination for music when their songs first debuted on the radio. Perry's I Kissed A Girl was both controversial and superb, while That's Not My Name gave a sense of originality while boasting a hok that pounds itself into your head. While both won over fans like no other, The Ting Tings deserve this honour more for being one of a kind; no other bands of the moment sound or even look like them.
That's all we have folks, here's to 2009 bringing us more of the "same old shit" as Popjustice would say.
Sunday, 23 November 2008
FINALLY
After the most disastrous series of chart positions of her career, the posh princess is back! Despite being 4 months pregnant she serves it up for a Mascara advert.
Lord she's gorgeous. Look at those lips and eyes and that beautiful skin. Song sounds semi-decent, most probably a Top 15 "hit".
Lord she's gorgeous. Look at those lips and eyes and that beautiful skin. Song sounds semi-decent, most probably a Top 15 "hit".
Sunday, 9 November 2008
Guri-guri
Yuna Ito has been redeeming herself with her latest release and previous single "miss you". Still, she needs a few more songs like "恋はgroovy×2" to make us pretend we never knew "Urban Mermaid" and the entire "WISH" album ever existed.
AMAZING.
It's like an hour long advertisement (it's the GAP clothes line song for the holiday season) and it features some very nice effects. But the one thing that annoys me is her failed diva-acting and the way she tries to lip-synch to EVERY lyric in the song, even those belonging to the BG vocals.
Song : A+
Video: A
AMAZING.
It's like an hour long advertisement (it's the GAP clothes line song for the holiday season) and it features some very nice effects. But the one thing that annoys me is her failed diva-acting and the way she tries to lip-synch to EVERY lyric in the song, even those belonging to the BG vocals.
Song : A+
Video: A
Sunday, 2 November 2008
Also reviews
Girl groups have gone into a frenzy the past fortnight or so.
It started with the Sugababes.
Well, actualy the Saturdays but they get stated second for no clear reason.
Up is amazing by the way, just that for no clear reason somebody somewhere decided to make it sluggish-sounding and tedious and shit, in an attempt to bog the album down.
And last but definitely and no way in hell the least we have Girls Aloud with their fifth studio album.
Compared to a similar time of the year in 2007...
Bloody amazing.
This should be a lesson to all the girls out there who still make mediocre albums despite being in the industry long enough to have seen 2372093 lineup changes, and newbies who just can't scratch it but might have the potential to do so in the future depending on whether they sell enough to avoid getting severed off in a bloody dispute with their labels.
It started with the Sugababes.
Well, actualy the Saturdays but they get stated second for no clear reason.
Up is amazing by the way, just that for no clear reason somebody somewhere decided to make it sluggish-sounding and tedious and shit, in an attempt to bog the album down.
And last but definitely and no way in hell the least we have Girls Aloud with their fifth studio album.
Compared to a similar time of the year in 2007...
Bloody amazing.
This should be a lesson to all the girls out there who still make mediocre albums despite being in the industry long enough to have seen 2372093 lineup changes, and newbies who just can't scratch it but might have the potential to do so in the future depending on whether they sell enough to avoid getting severed off in a bloody dispute with their labels.
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