-Inu- posted:

I'm out of town so I haven't had a chance to listen to either song through proper monitors yet, but my first impression using lovely earbuds is that I like the Katy Perry song better. The production on Applause sounds incredibly generic and I'm not really a fan of Gaga's voice. The synths don't really don't mesh well with the Madeon-esque drums that DJ White Shadow employed (I couldn't find any credits to Madeon so I assume he wasn't involved with this song). Roar isn't super amazing or anything but I'm a big fan of Katy's voice and it's catchy enough. Also the lyric video is really cool.

Metal Loaf posted:

I think the Lady Gaga song is a bit better (though it's still not as good as the best she's done) but the Katy Perry one will probably crush it on the charts.

Wandle Cax posted:

Looks like Roar will have the slight edge on the charts. It will be quite close to begin with.

Joramun posted:

Wandle Cax posted:

http://kworb.net/ww/

Check that for worldwide total iTunes charts.

ZakAce posted:

I know it's been a while since the last post, but I want this thread to keep going.

Couple of Billboard news things: "Royals" by Lorde is now in the top 10! Aw yeah, Kiwi time.

After an 11-month stretch at the top of the charts, "Blurred Lines" has been unseated by "Roar" by Katy Perry. What do you guys think of the new Katy Perry song?

nyquil hangover posted:

Doesn't the new Britney Spears single come out on the 17th? It's a long shot but I hope it's awesome and knocks Roar from the top spot.

Wandle Cax posted:

Also it's no surprise I guess but Roar really is a boring and mediocre song to be such a big hit.

Wandle Cax posted:

Also it's no surprise I guess but Roar really is a boring and mediocre song to be such a big hit.

squeee posted:

It's being released on the 16th and I hope the same though I'm not holding out for it. I hope she pulls out an album similar to Circus because Circus was the tits.

nyquil hangover posted:

I actually liked Circus better than Femme Fatale. If she had released Shattered Glass or Kill The Lights as a single, I think they would've been massive hits.

gandlethorpe posted:

Hmm. Miley Cyrus's new single is surprisingly good. I actually liked "We Can't Stop", but I admit it's a bit inane and doesn't really show off her singing ability. "Wrecking Ball" seems to balance that out, so that makes me look forward to hearing more from her.

The verses remind me of Lana Del Rey, who I don't really like. But the song made me realize that I do like her style, it's the voice that irks me. Miley's vocals, on the other hand, are just great, and I can't wait to see a live version.

squeee posted:

I am happy that Wrecking Ball is a ballady song. It's a nice contrast from We Can't Stop. I could really do without the gross sledgehammer licking in the video, but it was directed my Terry Richardson and he's generally a disgusting old perv.

Metal Loaf posted:

I think Miley Cyrus comes off as a bit of a try-hard.

At the same time, you've got Demi Lovato, who's a much better singer but isn't as successful.

squeee posted:

Yep, Demi's infinitely more talented vocally, but unfortunately doesn't have the joy of having an already-famous Dad which clearly shoe-inned Miley to the top. I hope she thanks her Dad everyday for Achy Breaky Heart.

squeee posted:

I am happy that Wrecking Ball is a ballady song. It's a nice contrast from We Can't Stop. I could really do without the gross sledgehammer licking in the video, but it was directed my Terry Richardson and he's generally a disgusting old perv.

Yoshifan823 posted:

I've been listening to Top 40 radio a little bit recently, and I'm kinda impressed at the number of songs that I hear regularly that I really like. I mean, I'd been waiting for 20/20 Experience and Random Access Memories, so I know the Timberlake/Daft Punk songs already, but stuff like Clarity, or that new Jason DeRulo (for whatever reason, I've always liked his songs) have a really nice almost trance-y sound to them. That kind of beat getting bigger and more popular is exciting for me.

edit: That said, Roar blows and I hate it and hate listening to it.

Yoshifan823 posted:

edit: That said, Roar blows and I hate it and hate listening to it.

nomapple posted:

I actually like Katy Perry, but yeah this song is awful. Also I agree with the general sentiment that there seems to be a lot of pop around at the moment that I really enjoy.

Yoshifan823 posted:

I actually really like a lot of Katy Perry's music. Both One of the Boys and Teenage Dream have songs that I really enjoy on them, but something about Roar just really puts me off.

quote:

“I have this song on the record, and it has two lines on it which were very important for me to put on there. One of them was: We live in cities you’ll never see onscreen. Because I like in Auckland, which is definitely not New York. It just felt important for me to be speaking for the minority. Coming from a small city, somewhere that feels unimportant, you just wanna get out of there. You’re whole teenage life The other line is: I’m kind of over getting told to throw my hands up in the air. Because, there’s been so much of that in pop music, and I’m like, this is the stupidest thing. Being told to put your hands in the air? That’s the last thing I wanna do right now. I just wanted to be a bit more realistic. I don’t if that’s relating to young people in general, or just people who listen to pop.”

gandlethorpe posted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFasFq4GJYM

Heard this for the first time on my local alternative station on my way to work. Listened to it over and over at work. Heard it again on the same station at lunch, and I'm sure I'll hear it again driving home. With the way indie/alternative acts have been blowing up lately, I wouldn't be surprised if this song gets huge in the US.

Girl is talented, only 16, and already hit #1 in her native New Zealand.

AnAnonymousIdiot posted:

I like and appreciate the lyrics, all except for the second part of the refrain. It has this anti-materialistic feel in most of the song, then winkingly goes against the lyrics. She pokes fun at the glitz and glamour associated with being famous and thumbs her nose at it. Then we get to, "Let me be your ruler..." and it ruins the song a little for me. Not to the point that it's bad - in fact it's a great song - but I get the same feeling of it that I have for Fun's We Are Young. Interesting bits hidden among some banalities.

het posted:

I think it would rub me the wrong way a lot less if "gold teeth" weren't the first thing she mentioned. It doesn't really fit as well with the rest of the things she lists, and you're sort of left to wonder why it's even there in the first place. Surely she could have come up with some other extravagance.

Ratios and Tendency posted:

Gold teeth is referring to hip-hop grills and makes perfect sense?

Ratios and Tendency posted:

The song is a playful expression of ambivalence towards celebrity. If it were merely polemic it wouldn't be nearly as good.

het posted:

If the primary target of derision is rappers rather than celebrities in general, it makes the song kinda distasteful to me. And to make it worse, everything else is an actual trapping of wealth, grills are more a trapping of aspiration to wealth, so it seems more like punching downwards than punching upwards. Like every other thing there isn't necessarily coded, as Maybachs, private jets, Cristal, etc. can be attributed to any wealthy person but that one's pretty explicit.

That addition really turns it from a generic middle class kid's cry for relevance to the sort of complaint about pop music I'd expect from a vaguely racist middle class dad.

It seems less like ambivalence towards celebrity than just a poorly-conceived lyric. I mean, I read it more as the blue collar person reclaiming notoriety on a local scale, but even with that interpretation it seems to undermine the rest of the song.