The UK Top 10 Review
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I'm disappointed in this song - Train can do so much better than this. I've never heard the words 'drive-by' used in this sense either, but maybe that's just me being all quaint and English?
That being said, it's got a good tune, if a little uninspired.
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Down one in the first week of having an official video, it's Nicki Minaj. Having a video just makes me dislike the song even more, she's like a grotesque parody of attractiveness, and I dislike having to watch her grind around in a parade of steadily more ridiculous wigs.
For more opinions on the song itself, please see all the previous weeks this song has sat in the charts.
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B.o.B also drops one place this week with the latest in his line-up of 'lazy songs for good times'. It seems there are no more vocal talents on this week than B.o.B himself, which I like; though Airplanes and the like are great tunes, it's good to see a rap artist carry a hit on his own voice for once.
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This song appears to have outstayed its welcome with yet more people, as Gotye dropps one place further this week. Apparently there are people just discovering this - maybe those who've been hiding under a rock for the last 15 weeks or so...
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Climbing ten places in its third week in the charts, this is the first song with a 'drop' that actually took me by surprise. I'd been experiencing a fairly dull blues-y guitar piece when the dub kicked in for a chorus of impassioned singing. It's an interesting experiment, but I'm not entirely sure it works as a song.
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Unfortunately Jessie J fails to drop at all this week - presumably due to David Guetta's ability to back up her screeching with a halfway decent dance tune. Perhaps simply not my taste, perhaps just a bad tune.
[small]Fun fact: I found out Jessie Js fans are called Heartbeats in a radio show a while back, and remember thinking what a stupid name that was.[/small]
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I simply cannot understand how this has only dropped two places this week. Surely everyone who heard that this was in the charts simply thought 'Oh god, what is this? What have we brought upon ourselves?'
The tune is appalling, and he sings in a mixture of high pitched breathy notes and autotuned crap.
Ugh, no more.
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Unfortunately this song seems to have lost some of the momentum it had shown in previous weeks, and fails to climb any places this week. I'm still finding it to be very much a grower as a song, and thought it'd grow on even more people as it stayed in the charts, but hey-hoh, three's not bad!
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Newly in the charts, I think this song has been credited wrong. Harris appears to be very much in the Guetta role here, mixing a song for Ne-Yo. I think Calvin's done much better, and why on earth would you draft Ne-Yo in as the vocal talent - he hasn't got any! A poor song, even as a dance tune, and I can only assume this song has sold on a mix of name-recognition and sheep-style music-buying.
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Yup, it's still number one!! I think it's selling well in hitting two audiences at once - the young girls who'll like it for its unapologetically catchy hook, and the older teens who can buy it as an ironic statement.
Personally, I still like that video!
Hopefully see you all next week, and please leave your comments! I don't just do this for my own benefit!
-bobmus
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10. Train - Drive By
That being said, it's got a good tune, if a little uninspired.
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9. Nicki Minaj - Starships
For more opinions on the song itself, please see all the previous weeks this song has sat in the charts.
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8. B.o.B - So Good
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7. Gotye Feat. Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know
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6. Alex Clare - Too Close
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5. Jessie J feat. David Guetta - Laserlight
[small]Fun fact: I found out Jessie Js fans are called Heartbeats in a radio show a while back, and remember thinking what a stupid name that was.[/small]
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4. Conor Maynard - Can't Say No
The tune is appalling, and he sings in a mixture of high pitched breathy notes and autotuned crap.
Ugh, no more.
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3. fun. - We Are Young
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2. Calvin Harris feat. Ne-Yo - Let's Go
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1. Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
Personally, I still like that video!
Hopefully see you all next week, and please leave your comments! I don't just do this for my own benefit!
-bobmus
