Kesha - I like this better than the last single. It is a fairly stripped back song for a pop song, but it still very pop. The real star here is the lyrics though. Kesha is the humanist pop star we needed? It doesn't matter what happens after we die, it matters what good we do now for everyone. That's my jam, especially in 20XX this dark future we live in.
Hayley Kiyoko - Messy people, presenting about queer relationships, eh you would peg it as my kind of thing but something doesn't click. It might be that I don't want a pop song like that after Kesha? That just means that Kesha goes higher on the list though, so that's fine.
Babymetal - I am biased here, I have been listening to this for 2 years now since Metal Resistence came out and I like it a fair bit. On the one hand, yeah Alex hit the nail on the head with how anime it is, but do you know what else it is? It is really similar in song structure to
God Gave Rock and Roll To You which is an incredibly formative song because of the Bill and Ted association. Also this is an amazingly well produced live track. Both from just like the quality of the performance and the quality of the video production. They are just bang on with polish and execution
Meghan Trainor - This takes too long to get to the funk tones that nearly made me nearly dismiss this as completely losing her main style, but they get there with guitar tones eventually. There really isn't much use of her vocally though. The vocal style was kinda what I was there for? So shrug.
snh48 - Being proto Babymetal in a week with Babymetal in a live track where they dunk all over you is not great.
Rita Ora - So I talk about how Hayley Kiyoko is a bit too pop compared to Kesha for me and then this comes on and it is pop with no rough edges left on it and yeeaahhhhh I still like this more. Should I be worried about how commercialised specifically women are in this wave of stuff? Could I talk about how some of this stuff doesn't get further than making out? Probably not with that rap verse. Definitely not with Tove Lo - bitches playing immediately after on the autoplay which has "Let me be your guide when you eat my pussy out" in the first verse. THis is all pretty fun.
Babymetal > Kesha > Rita Ora > snh48 > Meghan Trainor > Hayley Kiyoko.
Feel free to drop Babymetal a place or two in working stuff out if you don't want my amazingly strong bias. I love the band and that track is like bringing back Nico & Vinz - Am I Wrong or 풋풋 - Freshman Song again some time. Songs I still really dig from way back when this started up.
