Over on the poptimists weekly roundup I talked about party pop getting reinvented as a bright bubbling dance mess, Tinie Tempeh being the latest example but this also relating to what Dave and Tal were saying yesterday in regard to Missy and Ke$ha playing footsie with the centering/de-centering thing. Here's how I said it on poptimists (and you should click ( Read more... )

Posted this on Brad Nelson's Tumblr (in response to his saying that he's been thinking of dub as the center while being concurrently aware that there is no center and there never was):

I once argued that dub was central, or at least deserved pride of place as a fountain that watered a number of neighboring fields, while saying that sonically what ( Read more... )

Eminem enters at the top, accusing his recent album of being "Ehhhhh."

( Eminem )

Jonathan and Tal take issue with an obviously snarky photo equation, Erika correctly points out that it may not be snarky (I'm not sure she's right, but she makes a case), and I pitch in with what I think Taylor and Ke$ha may have in common ( Read more... )

The top eight remains* unchanged, with "Hey Soul Sister" still too close to the top at number 3. Top eight seems unusually many for such stasis, but I actually haven't been tracking change versus unchange in the top ten except to notice the top three, usually. Ke$ha's "Your Love Is My Drug" re-enters the top 40, possibly as an official single, ( Read more... )

Here are my top singles for the first quarter of 2010; I ought to have twice as many but I keep getting distracted by the Pop World Cup ( Read more... )

The hip among you probably already know this, but I had to find out from Rolling Country: this number one country hit for Dolly Parton was written by...

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...Pebe Sebert, Ke$ha's mom. (Was co-written by Hugh Moffat, whom Pebe had been married to for a while, says Wikip, and who put out some country albums and has co-written several operas.) Here's ( Read more... )

I link Megan McCauley's "Tap That" wherever necessary, but I've decided it's time to embed it. Think of it as mandatory listening for those wanting to participate in the Ke$ha-3OH!3 convos - Max Martin and Dr. Luke combining Salt-N-Pepa style hip-hop with hard-rock tune-pop back in 2006. (Dr. Luke is a producer and co-writer of Ke$ha's "TiK ToK ( Read more... )

Nitsuh writes about my homies in the 303:

It's not like there's anything new about boyish white guys trying on the kind of masculinity they're getting out of hip-hop - in these cases it can lead to some incredibly boyish bullshit. No, the bits that get me are the really pop ones, these 3OH!3 choruses that represent pretty much the only place you ( Read more... )

The Ke$ha conversation continues:

Jonathan with an excellent mammoth post: Keep Tickin And Tockin Work It All Around The Clock

Dave's response here.

Then Erika's response here to what Jonathan wrote about "Stephen." And Dave's response to that here. And Erika's response to Dave's response here. And Dave's subsequent response here.