Top 10 Songs Of 2011

[koganbot]

So far. And three of them are holdovers from last year, which I justify down in the wonky notes. I've already posted about Jeremih, the gorgeous tenuousness of the sounds seeming to have nothing to do with the booty-gazing lyrics. You likely already know about the Britney, and if you haven't heard " High High" yet, that's hardly my fault. "Knock Out

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[talrose]

Kind of makes sense actually, since the Jagger comparison you make to Terius doesn't really apply to R. Kelly, who doesn't have trap doors within a song as he does across an album or across his whole career. There's also a lot more to work with-the sheer volume of his work is pretty daunting, and it's very difficult to place where to begin with him. A couple other things of note: Kelly wrote many songs for Michael Jackson, including "You Are Not Alone," and according to a recent interview he has a couple albums' worth of songs he wrote for MJ, but my guess is they're all ballads, which I think says something about Kelly, that he's more of a ballad singer than a rock singer, and maybe there's more rock in Terius'. The-Dream's production is also a little more expansive, keyboards stretching out all over the track, the drums hitting a littler harder; whereas Kelly is a little more narrow, everything coming in streams and brooks and light splashes, a little more adult contemporary than The-Dream. Elegance is a big part of Kelly's music, and maybe Jonathan B. can help me out here, but isn't "I'm A Flirt" a waltz?

[talrose]

Great interview with, of all people, Will Oldham in the new issue of Interview:

http://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/r-kelly/

[koganbot]

"I'm A Flirt" isn't a waltz; it's in 4/4 but he plays with the accents at the start, making the second beat feel like the one, so three beats later there you are at a new measure, giving dancers something to play with or trip over.

[koganbot]

Another gap: Oldham's music is something I don't know very well either.