Oh the pop music spotlight attacks again!
- Paramore returns to the charts with "That's What You Get". I really want to like this band. The singer is engaging, the tunes are energetic, but all their songs just sound alike.
- This week's pop-rap standout, the kind you chant along with even if you don't want to, is Hot Stylz's "Lookin' Boy". The minimalist backing track is a great change of pace from the usual commercial stuff--kind of a classic throwback.
- And we have two new country songs for the spotlight this week! They are both seriously dreadful, the slick Nashville stuff that's so calculating and void of honest feeling, it makes my teeth hurt. One is a duet between Reba McEntire and Kenny Chesney, "Every Other Weekend", with some of the most painfully contrived lyrics I've heard in a long time. The other comes from Keith Anderson, "I Still Miss You" (hey, anything is better than Ms. McEntire's stinker).
- Lil Wayne debuts another new single this week. His new album, Tha Carter III, is getting enthusiastic critical reviews but I'm finding that the pop sheen on songs like "Got Money" don't appeal to me. But then, I didn't enjoy his earlier stuff, either.
- Another debut for us comes from Disney's Hannah Montana orbit as Mitchel Musso and Emily Osment passably perform "If I Didn't Have You". It's less soulless than the country songs!
- And in our weekly installment of "The British Are Really Very Different From Us", Paul Weller is back on the BBC charts. I think he's been milking his second-rate soul stylings for 30 years now. Give it up!
- SR-71: Now You See Inside
- Emma Lou Diemer: Concerto In One Movement For Piano
- Arnold Schoenberg: Kammersymphonie
- Various Artists: Breakbeat Massive
- Metric: Live It Out
- Duke Ellington: Suite from "The River"
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