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I see Red as the album she could start affording the services of a certain Mr. Martin, the only meaningful metamorphosis of her career. So far the winners from that partnership's temporary hiatus are Ed Sheeran, Justin Bieber and absolutely no one else.

If singing was just about being loud then Whitney and Mariah lovers would have a point. And I'll pass on Celine Dion's best in favour of Taylor Swift's worst. But yes it's probably accurate to say she's not as accomplished as Madonna (who has had her share of career flat spots btw, not just in...

Better to excrete 1989 outtakes than to waste the good stuff on Ed Sheeran and the Goddamn Door guy. What does it say about American so-called empowerment anthems like this me-diocrity and that awful one from The Greatest Showman that not a single lyric contradicts the narcissism of their...

My Choice Hits 1. The Weeknd & Kendrick Lamar: “Pray For Me” Imo, this is America. And more, this is music standing on its own two feet in which guns/racism/greed aren’t identified as the greatest threat to the (former? restored?) greatest nation, rather as a symptom of the weaponisation of...

Couple of thoughts about End Game, in the spirit of its sports-talk theme: Swift with the rebound, she soars effortlessly through the air like an eagle. Nobody contests her because Referees Martin and Shellback have ejected all the opponents from the stadium. She dishes off to Future, he does...

I'm going to contribute two lists--one very specific, the other very short. Best Hits of 2017 (qualification: songs released this year that made it into the top 20 on the ARIA Singles Chart). 1. Selena Gomez: "Bad Liar" - sultry bordering on screw-loose delivery landing somewhere between...

"One thing I don't like about Picasso's Rose Period is how he's completely abandoned any trace of blue paint," said no one ever. I hope. If acoustic guitar is what made Taylor Swift's earlier work great (or good), how come I never cared for Colbie Caillat? Personal preferences regarding...

I could gladly go the rest of my life without hearing Wolfmother's Joker And The Thief again, thanks to Crownbet I think. Also, does anybody remember the great Joe Cocker overflow of 2000? Those were dark, repetitive days. There is no way that Unchain My Heart will ever be a part of my music...

Probably not worth much coming from someone who has only knowingly heard and seen The War on Drugs once (yesterday, on Jimmy Kimmel): Maybe the lead singer looks like a Bryan Adams over-indulged on the old Canadian bacon, but I have him sounding like a Bob Dylan-Michael Stipe hybrid. Nothing...

Bad music videos thread is thattaway, guys (although I only half-mean it regarding Fazerdaze because anything that can make me laugh, intentional or not, has some value) I can already hear this playing underneath Rebecca Judd's next Postcards segment. If anything it's so light and modest that...

And isn't "the years unfamiliar are made of increasingly digital days" just a fancy way of saying "101 Dalmatians on your CD-ROM, See me-I'm, tryin to pretend I know, On my PC where that CD go"?

Total lack of vocal creativity and emotional depth, he couldn't sing the pants off the girl next door without his good looks and great dance moves.

My takes on the chart toppers at the moment, for anyone interested. Another Bieber song where he croons in the same monotone thing as usual, only this time with Spanish guys. No thanks. Pedestrian "tune" about weather which you can "dance" to (as displayed in the music video) from a "rock"...

I get the usefulness and apparent necessity of employing blanket rules to a list like this, my only problem is I can't think of Eight Days a Week as anything BUT a single. Eternally competes with She's Leaving Home as my favourite Beatles song, gun to my head I'd pick In My Life because I like...

Just came here to say the tv commercial saturation for Drake's album is dangerously bordering on Tom Jones "Reload" territory. BURNING! DOWN! THE HOUSE!

My Elvis Ten Love Me Tender It’s Now or Never Can’t Help Falling in Love Fame and Fortune Love Letters Young and Beautiful Suspicious Minds Are You Lonesome Tonight? In The Ghetto Hound Dog Further examination would warrant endless reshuffling, but the basic idea is there. His rock’n’roll hits...