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Sophia performs Super Bass on Ellen

Niall Byrne — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 08:20:15 +0000

Young English girl Sophia Grace Brownlee stole everyone’s hearts with her version of Nicki Minaj’s Super Bass last week. Then Ellen stepped in and Sophia got to meet and perform with Minaj with amazing hyperactive consequences.

Five seconds of every U.S. number 1 since the 1950s

Niall Byrne — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:36:45 +0000

We’re not really sure why this exists but it does, and it’s fascinating. Listen to every U.S. number 1 from the early ’50s up to 2011 in three different parts. It’s like an aural journey through modern music.

Five Seconds Of Every #1 Pop Single Part 1 by mjs538

Five Seconds Of Every #1 Pop Single Part 2 by mjs538

5 Seconds of Every #1 Billboard Hot 100 Hit From 1993-2011 by AnthonyDC

New Music Monday

Ailbhe Malone — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:46:31 +0000

Behold Matt Morris. He’s Justin Timberlake’s protege. Well, as much as one can protect someone who’s older than you. In fact, he’s less of a protege, more the man who’s behind some of JT’s better tunes. Anyway, he too is an ex-Mouseketeer and JT’s first signing on his new record label.

Enough of the background info- is he any good? Well, he’s not bad. Imagine the sibling of Adam Levine and that Jason Mraz chap. OK FINE IT’S BASICALLY SMOOTH JAZZ. I hope you’re all happy now.

New Music Monday

Ailbhe Malone — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:26:28 +0000

Hello readers, meet Neon Hitch. Neon Hitch, meet the readers.

Neon Hitch (yes, that is her actual birth name) features on the 3OH!3 track for Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. This one. Yes, it’s not amazing, but her bits are quite good.

Other facts:

1. She co-wrote many of Ke$ha’s album tracks.
2. She used to be flatmates with Amy Winehouse.

2009 in Pop: Condensed

Ailbhe Malone — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:56:06 +0000

We could make some kind of astute point about how the positive message of this ‘mash-up’ promotes old-fashioned fun-having and dancing in the slightly austere current economic climate. Instead we’re just going to say ‘ZOMG’ and ‘awesome’ at regularly spaced intervals. Make of that what you will.

Mr(s) Blue Sky

Ailbhe Malone — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:05:50 +0000

We’ve had Sky Ferreira buzzing in our ears for the past year now. Yet to release anything (aside from appearing on a Virgins remix), she’s finally signed to EMI.

We’re pretty sure that’s her at 0.40 in ‘Pop the Glock’.

Famed for wearing braces and being the Cory Kennedy of the internet music scene, she’s currently working with Paul Epworth, and hopefully, a single will be around by the summer.

In the meantime, here’s our gal covering Miike Snow’s excellent ‘Animal’.

Miley Cyrus’ autotune FAIL

Niall Byrne — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:38:37 +0000

This is hideous. Someone forgot to fix the autotune machine.

OK, OK. It’s a fake.

And I Feel Like Taking Off (My Self Respect)

Ailbhe Malone — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:45:37 +0000

You can imagine how the pitch went:

“Hello Mr Hudson, we are popular ‘urban’ group- N-Dubz. We wish to appeal to a niche MOR market. Your agent tells our agent that we could cross-polinate our appeal with yours. We’re advised that it will all end up well.”

Actually, no. Nobody would wish for that ridiculous hybrid. Yet, here it is.

Noddin’ My Head Like Yeah, Cringin’ in the Corner Like Yeah

Ailbhe Malone — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:56:39 +0000

SAMANTHA MUMBA RETURNS!

Fresh from hosting lingerie aisles in a Dunnes Stores near to you, she guests on Hill’s new track. And it’s directed by none other than Little Big Man Omero Mumba. Needless to say, it’s a masterpiece.

From the seamless segue from Mariah CGI to Hill’s heartfelt, soulful lyrical rhyming of ‘high’ and ‘sky’, culminating in Samantha’s earnest entrance (one rivals Beyonce/ Alex Burke in its excellence), we can honestly say that we’ve no idea where Sam will go from here.

We’ve Got Obsessions

Ailbhe Malone — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:25:37 +0000

It’s true. We’re not ones to fall in love easily. The current object of our affections is Canadian Synth-Emo Poppette LIGHTS. Part of the Owl City contingent (see BBC’s Sound of 2010 longlist)she’s already massive big in the States/ North America.

Signed by Warner in Europe, LIGHTS does indeed err on the side of cutesy- complete with keytar and self-penned animations and headbands, it gets a bit much, especially in tracks such as ‘Saviour’ (below).

Mind you, she’s got a way with a chorus, and a precedent’s already been set…

Christmas Number One, Ahoy!

Ailbhe Malone — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:03:34 +0000

Rage Against the What? Forget all that guff. We’ve got the number one record here. Soulful electro-pop from Dean Heslop, with a moving, thrilling video to boot. Words fail us.

Goin’ Back to My Roots

Ailbhe Malone — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:43:17 +0000

Sad news, pop fans. Miley Cyrus is hanging up her weave. The Party in the USA is cancelled. FOREVER.

In a recent interview with GMTV, Miles stated:

“I want to do my last pop record, I’m working on a record right now. I kinda want this to be my last record for a little while and be able to take a break and just get all the types of music that I really love…you know my favorite styles. And be able to have something edgier and not have to worry about people saying, “Oh, this isn’t what her fans want to listen to.”

For Miley to give up pop would be literally A Very Bad Thing.

However, this is not unprecedented. She just needs to take an album out to make some sub-standard indie with slightly poppy choruses, realise that in fact, she would rather be making amazing pop songs, and then go back to what she was doing in the first place, albeit with a more realistic/ mature attitude. “Pull a Mark Owen”, effectively.

So, from -

to this

We’d obviously replace the ‘Take That’ bits with new Future Miley bits, but we can’t look into the future, so you’ll have to use your imagination, readers.