Fox Stevenson was pretty repetitive even for a dance track I think. An incomplete sentence as your only vocal sample sets off my need for completion the whole time with only triggering at the end. It is an okay song.
Pentatonix do as good a cover of Nutcracker as you can do while still trying to change it up. I like this okay, but I am not a Carols type.
Meghan Trainor track feels like a more of the same follow up. Doesn't really work for me either. It is same kind of delivery mostly as last time covering similar kinds of stuff. This is the only one I really caught the film clip of (was doing something else while listening). She is working those dresses.
Charlie XCX this was a frustrating song in that "This is like something else but I can't place it" kind of way. Like it feels like Spice Girls of all things, but it isn't that (I think structure wise it is that, but it is delivery that is bugging me). Anyway, it pushes some of my buttons for wanting to be a female artist with some edge, but the button she is pushing is close to Courtney Love and thiiiiiiis is definitely nothing even remotely close to Hole. Not nearly as well written and wayyyyy cleaner than Hole is. Courtney is a broken human being and writes like it.
Within Temptation, the first minute of this is straight up Bon Jovi, but not even symphonic metal is as camp as the chorus of
Livin' On a Prayer.
DJ Earworm, this is my pick of the week. DJ Earworm consistently does some of the best stuff in December. This year is no difference. Taking a bunch of crappy pop songs (and some not so crappy ones) and mixing it into a pretty solid medley. They aren't always different from each other, but whatever, he has his thing and he doe sit well.
I do want to take the chance to pimp
Bertie Blackman. She released Kingdom of Alone 2 weeks ago and I picked up the album (Dash) the other week. I haven't given it nearly the play it deserves and I think this is a solid representation of the album and a damn fine track on it.
