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Mid-Year Lists 2010

Jul 01, 2010 15:24

Mid-Year Lists 2010

Singles First Half 2010: "Blah Blah Blah" is the big hairy dance-mess that's dancing over the world, while Aggro and Dizzee are the only other representatives here of 2010's dance-pop mess. Not enough country on this list, and at this time of year that's usually my fault, but this time I think it's country's. (Probably not ( Read more... )

tymee, lee hyori, e.via, 2ne1, poll prelims 2010, j-pop, snsd, ke$ha, akb48

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anonymous July 2 2010, 01:43:20 UTC

I don’t think I can recommend many singles (my own list is quite empty right now and I’m checking every list that I see for songs or albums), but anyway, some that maybe you know or not:

After School “Bang”

E.via “Shake It”

Kara “Lupin” (even if tonight it doesn’t do anything for me)

i-Me “Aiyiya” (love the song, hate the music video)

ICONIQ "Bye Now"/"Crystal Girl"

JASMINE "This is not a Game"

SKE48 “Gommen ne SUMMER” (that if anything changes I suppose is my single of this year, but there is little chance to understand it with such a LQ video)

koganbot July 2 2010, 13:11:40 UTC

Naturally enough, I don't know how to "read" these culturally. All these pretty girls: are they tough? are they sweet? in control? out of control? distinctive? anonymous? None of them seem out of control, in the sense of falling over or swerving off the the road, but are they considered in command or subservient? Naughty girl Jasmine (with cool sex girls [or whatever they are] posing behind her on the merry-go-round) sounds more capable of being hurt than do the happy girlie girls in i-Me.

anonymous July 2 2010, 16:37:01 UTC

That could be quite a complex question to answer. I suppose that it depends on what you are referring to when you talk about those girls, because it can be what are they representing here and now, what their image is or what they are trying to express, or can be about the performers themselves, what they aim to, why they do what they do ( ... )

anonymous July 2 2010, 16:39:58 UTC

(E.via can start her first music video doing a critique of the ways singers (girls) are portrayed on mainstream music: they are as silly as their music and they act in the same way (doing cute poses to gain attention, shamelessly using their sexuality to fulfil their material and social desires, subsumed to man, etc.) but when she pushes to hard with the video of “Shake It” and gets banned from TV, she does a dance shoot version and goes to live shows where idols go to be adored to do the same than the rest. Kara and After School come from the same place. Talent agencies/management agencies/record labels (they are less or more the same) do auditions and select a certain number of teenage girls and boys. Then they train for at least four or five years, ten, twelve or more hours each day, they sleep on flats with other talents of their same sex, to assume responsibilities or get more competitive, until they broke or are mature enough to debut. Then they sign a contract (something that they don’t have as a secure thing when they start ( ... )

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skyecaptain July 2 2010, 03:00:20 UTC

Ha, I say the same thing about Allison Moorer! I've been listening to what seems like a new album every year for three years or so, mostly upon Matt C.'s recommendation, but she's never clicked. (Laura Marling is one who's like that for me this year, along with...y'know, Allison Moorer ( ... )

skyecaptain July 2 2010, 03:03:42 UTC

Haven't listened to the new M.I.A. yet (I've been avoiding it, I think). But generally I'm not particularly excited about anything coming out soonish, though part of this is my not KNOWING what's coming out soonish.

chuckeddy July 2 2010, 03:36:29 UTC

Top 20 albums at the moment (some of which you might even think might be technically eligible for your list, if you heard them ( ... )

koganbot July 2 2010, 04:32:25 UTC

The GreenMoney Liquid Re-Rub is definitely 2009, though the original single it was rerubbing was 2008. I doubt that Rob will complain if you vote for it.

chuckeddy July 2 2010, 03:45:14 UTC

Top 10 country singles so far (not counting Southern Soul or Regional Mexican, which at the rate things are going I might count at the end of the year regardless -- haven't heard a couple of the ones you named, though):

1. Mallary Hope - Blossom In The Dust
2. Laura Bell Bundy - Giddy On Up
3. Martina McBride - Wrong Baby Wrong
4. Little Big Town - Little White Church
5. Trace Adkins - Ala Freakin Bama
6. Eric Church - Smoke A Little Smoke
7. Kevin Fowler - Pound Sign (#?*!)
8. Brad Paisley - Water
9. Jaron And The Long Road to Love - Pray For You
10. The Harters - Jenny

chuckeddy July 5 2010, 14:32:08 UTC

Oops, just realized that I missed one here -- James Wesley's "Jackson Hole," which I'd probably rank fifth or sixth on the list above (even though it's been a couple months since I listened to it, so far all know I could be either over- or under-rating it. Did hear his new single "Real" on the radio over the weekend, and kind of liked that, too -- though not as much, I don't think.)