what ya waiting what ya waiting for...

Jesse Mccartney is looking hot and sounding cuter. I'd played this song about 5 times and i was beginngin to like it, but id instantly fallen for the hooks in the clips that popjustice played ten times better. This video guarentees the lead track will be played enough for the song to infect ur brain: jesse is on course to be this years hilary duff, a disney poppet with a surprisingly amazing album.

So while you enjoy that clip, take some time to think about all the good things coming soon, but which for now we shall all patiently wait for...

Dear imaginary giver of things pop, if im a good boy, in the future i would like you to deliver:

a new Long blondes album, single/video? 'Century' is a really cool song it definatly builds upon what has always been a part of the long blondes style but shoves upfront a new avant garde approach to conveying that message. its in sync and in fashion.

a high quality leak of '4minutes', a video and some airplay of Madonna's new material.

a copy of Annies catchy little album bridge track 'girlfriend'

a clip of Sophie Ellis Bextor singing 'yes sir i can boogie'

Frankmusik to make it onto the jukebox at work

Girls Aloud's 'hoxton heroes' b-side on my ipod now

a nice copy of Panic at the Disco attempting to be pretty. odd.

and for L.A Reid to have had the guts to tell Janet to just make a ten track dance album, consider that positive feedback, cos i love the best of it 'so much betta'.

Lemme tell you a fairytale....
Once there was a girl with a paino and she sung an amazingly catchy yet sad song...
the video started off a little something like this....

...But wait! this video then goes into some sort of 'fairytale of new york' (except it doesn't contain the word fa**ot and won't clog up the charts come xmas time)

...But wait some more, while that might well be the lead single 'Nolita Fairytale' from Vanessa Carlton's album Heroes and Thieves this next video is from the even more amazing song that i urge you to fall in love with.

Vanessa Carlton - Hands On Me
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MGMT: 'Time To Pretend'

Although im seemingly a pop boy through and through i think living in japan helped with that a lot, after all its much easier to think wow Mika's quite catchy and fun without having to see his media saturated face bouncing around at the Brits.
Returning to work with our mostly indie boy jukebox has reignited my indie boy leanings and this band stand out as my current favourite... i'd never heard of them before today but they have been tipped for big things by many people, the single is out march 3rd, the video below is utterly mesmerising and perhaps all too familar to any viewers of weekend televisions The Tribe, it all has a klaxons stylee pale naked boys playing dress up feel and the lyrics recount a similar tale as Nickelbacks Rockstar but this is all done in a much more laconic -and seemingly less irritating- manner.

in at number 1!

Frankmusik: until maxxie from skins releaese a pop single a la adam rickett the person i truly think shouldve been bigged up as the only thing to matter this year in terms of artist breakthru's is mr frankmusik.
can't believ id almost forgot about him. buy his ep now online so like me you can pretend you knew him all along like a long lost friend.
heres his new single 3 little words (fan made video) (real video via popjustice)

innnn 2!

Dont Panic, my favourite all male rock band as in proper band with pretentions to be the next radiohead is back! yay!




Panic at the Disco, Nine in the Afternoon, Pretty. Odd
i loved their first album so i hope this change in sound suits me, so far the catchyness of this single is infected my entire bus journey home from work each day, it really suits those 5.30 sunsets over lancaster.

innnnnn 3!

3) Janet Jackson, Discipline


Mariah came back with a whimper this week with a limp invitiation to Touch her Body, but Janet succinctly slides amongst the timbaland sound dominating the charts producing lots of positve Feedback.

It's a great lead single with some lovely synthetic vocals although the lyrics are perhaps best left undeciphered, yet scarily the phrase 'heavy like a first day period' perhaps lacks any metaphor.

This video cemented her return to form:



So far i am loving the slinky sound of Rock with You which seems to steal from Kylie/Uffie, but possibly even takes back what was rightfully Janets to begin with. A playful sexiness and an elctro beat.

yet saving the best to last, here is LUV yay:

Emerging From Hibernation:
After the bleak january popscene here comes a belated valentines to sort things out...

All the hype is paying off for the Adele's, Duffy's and David Jordan's of this world...but none of them could get a hit at any other time of year.
Basshunter gives us 2008's biggest selling song of the year so far... with a measley 200,000 sales.
Nickelback reach a new peak of number 2 with a song that charted first way back in october '07...

...and so while pop seemingly slumbers on here is my rundown of the small stirrings going on that give me hope that pop wil soon bloom again:

10) NZ band Cut Off Your Arms: Oh Girl, stealing the building blocks from with every heartbeat to provide the type of indie boys pop that might make some people think pop is newly credible and others think that indie boys are newly hot or something... anyway there it is for you:

9) Two sweet singles should encourage anyone to find out this album: here is the cover so you know what to look for when u enter a record shop or when u want to paste into itunes to add to your illegally downloaded copy.

8) Black and Gold: Sam Sparro : hotpants : hit single

7) she dont rush the bus: snoop / robyn / sexual eruption

6) im a lyckle bit in love with her: lykke li, little bit

5) Kylie, do it again, cherry bomb, carried away: three new b-sides that add to that whole nintendo/kawaii/mecha/candy thing she almost had goin on with her album. The album is still good but hopefully some of these tracks get merged into the tour setlist to make things a bit more cohesive and thereby resembling artisitc integrity rather than capitalising upon a mix of potential singles.

4) simon curtis remains lodged on my album and hopefully this year you will have heard of him hear him here see him here:

my favourite

Maybe



I'm strong, But I break
I'm stubborn, And I make plenty of mistakes
Yeah I'm hard, And life with me is never easy
To figure out, to love I'm jaded but oh so lovely
All you have to do is hold me
And you'll know and you'll see just how sweet it can beIf you'll trust me, love me, let me
Maybe, maybe

Someday, When we're at the same place
When we're on the same road
When it's OK to hold my hand Without feeling lost Without all the excuses
When it's just because you love me, you let me, you need meThen maybe, maybe
All you have to do is hold me
And you'll know and you'll see just how sweet it can beIf you'll trust me, love me, let me
Maybe, maybe

I'm confusing as hell
I'm north and south
And I'll probably never have it all figured out
But what I know is I wasn't meant to walk this world without you
And I promise I'll try
Yeah I'm gonna try to give you every little part of me Every single detail you missed with your eyes
Then maybe, Maybe yeah maybe, yeh maybe and maybe maybe

One day we'll meet again and you'll need me, you'll see me completelyEvery little bit
Oh yeah maybe you'll love me, you'll love me then

I don't want to be tough

And I don't want to be proud
I don't need to be fixed and I certainly don't need to be found
I'm not lost
I just need to be in love
I just need to be loved
I just want to be loved by you and I won't stop 'cause I believe that maybe, yeah maybe
Maybe, yeah maybe

I should know better than to touch the fire twice
But I'm thinking maybe, yeah maybe you're mine
Maybe, love maybe

***

while everyones racing to claim the best song/album/artwork/meltdown of the passing pop year, i only wanna draw your attention to my favourite recording, from my favourite album by a woman slowly becoming my favourite vocalist and lyricist. she thinks this is her 'december' but its really her jagged little pill. its epic in its ambitous scale as it delves ever deeper into the painful numbness caused by kellys evident loss, until that numbness is reworked thru vocals and arrangements that add emotion to lyris which self referentially seem to come from a person thats emoitonless, this is like an emo's wetdream, reminds me of a dennis cooper novel and plays out like a masochistic alanis with each track hurting more than the last.

subliminal

Ashlee Simpson - Outta my Head (Ay ya ya)

i hated it on first listen now i love it kinda song that may well mark a turn in Asshlee's career the video is all a little too kooky but its a nice little risk taker reminds me of Billie Piper for some reason? but it most certainly reminds everyone else of the beat from Maneater, the throb of blackout, and the yelps of cyndi's oeuvre.

subliminal