Here are the six songs from 1996 that were already on the Best Of All Time list: Jars of Clay–Flood Donna Lewis–I Love You Always Forever Los Del Rios– Macarena No Doubt–Spider Web Barbara Streisand and Bryan Adams–I Finally Found Someone The Wonders–That Thing You Do A few comments on these songs: I know Macarena […]
The first time I heard Selena Gomez singing, it was her cover of Pilot’s 1974 song Magic. “That works,” I thought. “with a girl’s voice instead of boys’.” The chorus was familiar. Lots of commercials had the “Oh, oh, oh, it’s magic, you know” refrain. But the lyrics about “dreaming on my pillow in the […]
March 29, 2010 – 10:48 am
My awareness of British pop music has lagged behind a couple of months. This problem should be fixed by the end of 2010. Bad Romance, which you’ve heard me rave about on this page, was #1 in the UK in November. Apart from that, the best song of the year was: Alexandra Burke–Broken Heels (#8, […]
In the fall of 2008, I wrote an article about how music had changed in the previous ten years (since 1997). To summarize, the changes were: 1. Lyrics are much more R-rated, both in subject matter and “bad words”. 2. More prominent themes of Money and Self-actualization. 3. Vocal virtuosity is more important than it […]
There seems to have been less crossover of hits from the UK to the US than usual. In fact the best song which was: The Seahorses–Love Is the Law did not make the pop charts in the US. In fact, although the band had several hits in the UK none of their stuff seems to […]
I’m not one to jump on a bandwagon just because it’s for a good cause, and I’m not going to praise a song just because it was made with very good intentions. It must be a great song first in order for me to even bring it up. But this is a great song, and […]
Lady Gaga f/ Beyonce–Telephone Of the three Lady Gaga songs that are currently on the charts right now, two of them, Bad Romance and Paparazzi, have already been reviewed as being among the top 20 of 2009. (See post of January 20). This is the third, and it’s certainly worthy of their company. Like many […]
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