Because it’s never a bad thing to remind yourself that, once upon a time, somebody thought the video for “The World’s Greatest” was a good idea…
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Jer Fairall: I’m basically repeating myself here, but thanks to B.o.B. and “Love The Way You Lie” last year, its lookin’ like its gonna be a looonnnng 2011.
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Jonathan Bogart: Emo-rap continues its ascendance. Good news for moody teens, bad news for the rest of us.
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Anthony Easton: Emo sadness, but emo sadness that I found strangely effective — not in the weeping sense, but in the “I am quite sad and this continues my sadness” sense.
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W.B. Swygart: Viva La Vida, now she wanna give me cold play. Viva La Vida, now she wanna give me cold play. Viva La Vida, now she wanna give me cold play. Viva La Vida, now she wanna give me cold play. Make some noise for ELLIOT MINOR!!! Viva La Vida, now she wanna give me cold play. Viva La Vida, now she wanna give me cold play. Viva La Vida, now she wanna give me cold play. Viva La Vida, now she wanna give me cold play. I’ve been drowning in my own sleep, y’know. Terrible business.
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Iain Mew: Because what Airplanes-core really needed was to sound more like bad nu-metal, and to have more shoehorned in references to stuff they wished they could compete with.
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Kat Stevens: When the YM@6 dude sings “Rescue Mieyaayy” I keep thinking the song is going to morph into Skepta’s “Rescue Me” instead (which features a similarly annoying whiny indie dude on the chorus but an awesome meaty verse vworp to make up for it). Utterly disappointing, and full of emo dreariness to boot.
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Martin Skidmore: Halfhearted British rock, refreshed a little by a guest rapper, but it’s still dreary sludge the rest of the time, at times sounding as if it aspires towards my most hated TV theme, that for Smallville (it may not be as bad as the Enterprise one, but I don’t watch that so it doesn’t bug me).
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