More than 60 already, just tossing things at the end of the list and I'll put 'em in order later. Cameroonian hip-hop continues to kill it. I recommend "Déranger" by Mani Bella ft. Ténor at number 28 as an extreme of cackling and caterwauling and excellent carrying on. (In describing it as such am I misreading it ignorantly from overseas? Google ( Read more... )

I feel emotionally battered by the election, feeling simultaneously vulnerable and malicious, as if I'll be attacked for anything and nothing and I run constant fantasies of going back and settling old scores ( Read more... )

The retail season is vroomin' up the hillside. Four women, a couple of guys, a new girl and the panorama wide open.

( Ke$ha )

As predicted, Far East Movement leap into the Top 40, only the third Korean Americans ever to do so, as far as I know (Joe Hahn of Linkin Park and Amerie are the other two), and the first from Korea Town; don't know if or how that contributes to their sound, though maybe someone on my flist will have an idea. It's the two Asian guys in Linkin Park ( Read more... )

Special back-from-vacation edition. And while we were gone, "Teach Me How To Dougie" slowly kept climbing, and climbing, and climbing, building a constituency, and finally, after two-and-a-half months on the chart, breaking into the top 40 ( Read more... )

I have an opinion on Charice's "Pyramid," but you're not going to see it this week since the track is only at 52. In other chart news, T.I.'s "I'm Back" and Kenny Chesney's "Ain't Back Yet" are back-to-back at 61 and 62.

( Katy Perry )

Yet another performer has changed a letter in his name without my knowing it.

( Travie McCoy )

Buncha tracks new to the Top 40 but they seem already old, and done.

( Katy Perry )

Jukebox tracks coming too fast and furious. Katy Perry's "Waking Up In Vegas" is already done and reviewed, while I've only listened twice and haven't even gotten to the point of finding out if it's my hoped-for elaboration on Betty Hutton in The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek and Carrie Underwood in "Last Name." But the Jukebox blurbs reminded me that ( Read more... )

P!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 )