For me, my greatest Jukebox moment was Ke$ha's "Blah Blah Blah" - it isn't that what I wrote was so good - it was okay, and what I wrote in the comments was genuinely exploratory about the song's clatter making me think of "Mony Mony" - though I did get to work out those thoughts better on my blog - it's that when I started writing my blurb, song ( Read more... )

Any opinion of Millionaires? They seem like a really cheap, bad version of Ke$ha, but a cheap, bad version of Ke$ha doesn't particularly violate the spirit of Ke$ha (though the comparison only works best if one notices only the party-'n-excess Ke$ha without the rest of her). Also, it turns out that Millionaires' early singles predate Ke$ha hitting ( Read more... )

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Top five Ke$ha tracks*:

1. Blah Blah Blah
2. Backstabber
3. Party At A Rich Dude's House
4. Cannibal
5. Boots & Boys

The one of these that Lex might like if he didn't know whom it was by would be "Backstabber." There's a chance he'd like "Boots & Boys" as well.

*This does not count the Ke$ha vs. L'Trimm mashup, which if it were eligible would be ( 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 )

Wrote this album wrap-up in response to Greg over on my singles thread, so might as well give it its own post. I've let album-listening slide, so I need to do lots of exploring. These are my top five:

Ke$ha's Animal: her vision or shtick is up my alley, and is pretending to come from an alley, but her lyrics could use stronger, more original ( Read more... )

I write funny comment in Jukebox Ke$ha thread. (Also contains Taylor content, and Stones.)

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... )

Two at least nominally country tracks jump high quickly.

( Taylor Swift )

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... )