http://www.billboard.com/billboard/charts/hot100.jsp
Your thoughts, opinions, rantings, etc.?
― Nicole, Friday, 1 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
That being said, I'll be back with my US Pop-Eye comments later today.
Pop Eye!
― BrianR, Friday, 1 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Nick, Friday, 1 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
I posted this because I thought what Ally wrote here was a good idea:
Here's a thing: if ya'all wanna do a US Pop Eye, how about tomorrow one ya'alls goes and posts a new thread called US POP EYE 6/1/01 and see what gets started in this bitch? I just love calling things "this bitch" these days. That's so great. But seriously, see what happens and if there is stuff to say then think about doing a new US Pop Eye
Ah well, at least I'm not being put down for being from the midwest this time round. ;-)
I will post my comments about the charts a little later too, I think I need more coffee before I can do any proper writing.
No matter how many times the song is played, I will never get tired of the happy summer party vibe of "All For You". The fact that the shrieking behemoth that is "Lady Marmalade" tops it causes me to despair in my fellow man. There is ABSOLUTELY NO REASON for that SHRIEKY NONSENSE to be at the top of our charts. Why is it that we reward artists with severe mental illnesses with accolades and success rather than medication and counselling? (Yes, I am talking about Mecha- Christina. There is something deeply wrong with that girl.)
"Survivor", shmurvivor. Bring on "Bootylicious", already! Hell, release "Apple Pie A La Mode" as a single, since that's the best song on the album.
I really want "Drive" to hit number one. It won't happen, but it would make me very, very happy.
"Oochie Wally" is my new favorite song. Everyone should run out and buy a copy of it. Also, get a copy of "Hit 'Em Up Style" by Blu Cantrell while you're at it (my previous new favorite song).
― Dan Perry, Friday, 1 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― anthony easton, Friday, 1 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
No matter how many times the song is played, I will never get tired of the happy summer party vibe of "All For You".
Substitue "Ride With Me" and I agree. Reason, No. 134 for why I like that song: There’s something delightful about a track that tosses off a line as modern as "running credit checks with no shame now" alongside the odd and dated Vanna White name check. (and remember that made-for-TV movie with our gal Vanna the angel?)
"Oochey Walla" is treat, though. So deliciously naughty!
You know those awful spot-the-Grateful-Dead-song posters? ("Ooh, I found ‘Fire on the Mountain!’") "Fiesta" is the aural equivalent, only you’re spotting hip-hop clichés.
"What Would You Do?" is the new "Waterfalls," the after-school special of music. I guess this is supposed to be social commentary, but if a track is going to say something at least it can hold my interest at the same time: I could care less about whether Oxide and Nuetrino get A-listed on Radio 1, but I can’t stop listening to "Up Middle Finger."
I know it’s not available yet for sale, but "Pop" only jumps from #29 to #23?
Incredibly, "So Fresh, So Clean" is going to stall at #30. If it got any bigger, I’d say the columnists would be picking apart the Anne Frank bit. (Uh-oh, don’t get me started on Neutral Milk Hotel again.). Richard Roeper, hello! Please return to missing the point of "Memento" instead of missing the point of "Ms. Jackson." Anyway, I’m still surprised it hasn’t furrowed any brows.
Nelly Furtado, fly away. Please.
― scott p., Friday, 1 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Quite so. Because it is poo.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 1 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Friday, 1 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Mike Hanley, Friday, 1 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
I must admit that, against all expectations, I find myself really liking Staind.
CA is going a bit Dee Snider, isn't she? Hair and makeup. Maybe she'll be directing straight-to-video slasher flicks in 15 years time.
Have yet to hear Nikki Costa, but I strangely enjoy that Blu Cantrell song as well.
― Larms, Friday, 1 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Patrick, Friday, 1 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Lifehouse & Tantric seem to both me nth-generation grunge humpers. (Tantric includes 3/4ths of another would-be grunge humper, Days of the New. I HOPE you haven't heard them.) Orgy is the bastard bastard of NIN and Marylin Manson, but with more panache. And Staind (despite their dreaded association with Fred "Baby Daddy" Durst) is probably the least of all these evils. Meaning that their power ballad(s) - "Inside" and "It's Been Awhile" - aren't THAT cringe- worthy.
Odd seeing Gwen Stefani represented on the list TWICE. "Odd", because I would think that to be a guest vocalist on a song, you'd have to have a GOOD voice. (Though, then, why Macy Gray?) Gwen fits nicely with Eve, though. Sassy. And nice abs.
Spots #26-29 - all "country" songs. I don't know if they're of the Mutt Lange variety, or that awful "new Nashville", "let's make it sound REALLY country" sound.
And it looks like "Butterfly" is swiftly falling from the Top 50. A moment of silence, please.
And I'm all for Nikki Costa to boot Jennifer & other funk-fakers from the list. If "Like A Feather" isn't a hit, I'm going to ... well, I won't do anything except grouse at the fact that "Play" is nothing but a "Music" rewrite. An OBVIOUS non-obvious rewrite. With no sociological analysis - at least Madonna namedrops the bourgeois. And, no, borrowing the funky guitar scratch from Prince's "Kiss" doesn't make it better.
Now, borrowing would-be licks from T. Rex - that's the ticket.
― David Raposa, Friday, 1 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Clarke B., Friday, 1 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Dream's "This Is Me" bounds up 12 spots to 39. This first sounded like a great kiss-off to the other teen-pop acts. Now I'm already sick of it, especially since it has no new pronunciation of "me" to spice things up.
But Erick Sermon's Music is up 14 on its second week, which gives me great hope. The vocal-cut ups are new to US charts, and the vocals are from Marvin Frikin' Gaye.
The new Staind single, which mercifully is absent from the charts, is godawful. It seems that he sings in a monotone, and all the pitch is added via protools. Hideous, flat, drek.
― Sterling Clover, Friday, 1 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Josh, Friday, 1 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
"Let Me Blow Ya Mind" - what's more surprising: that Gwen can sing nice or that Eve is prepared to? Excellent stuff anyway, though y'all have to hear the reggae-tinged "No No No" for further evidence of Eve's nice vocal chords.
Dream's "This Is Me" is all up in technology's ass, but if it has a discernible tune I'm yet to hear it.
Nikka Costa had a former life as an alt-pop-hopeful in Australia, and on that evidence she's nothing particularly special. I'll be interested to see if she's transformed herself, but last I heard she was doing some sort of rootsy, bluesy affair. How is that challenging J Lo?
Speaking of J Lo, "Play" is great - the best r&b for dancing so far this year - as opposed to r&b for training, seducing or throwing things. And it's got a better groove than "Music" had. Love the way there's a gratuitous rhythmic stutter in the bridge as a way of saying "just because I like Prince, doesn't make this old skool shit."
And finally, "Lady Marmalade" - I like it more all the time. Yeah Mecha-Christina is thoroughly disturbing, but... Lil' Kim? How can I hate anything Lil' Kim's in? FYI: usually when Kim raps about sisters gettin' that dough, she's referring to table-top dancing, stripping or prostitution rather than just flossin' with their boyfriend's bling-bling; this also fits in with Moulin Rouge's theme. Not that this anyway *excuses* her, but I'm pretty sure she's not contradicting Pink here. Not that it would matter.
― Tim, Friday, 1 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ally, Friday, 1 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Saturday, 2 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Clarke, I think it's the jungle rumble sound that people like about Get Ur Freak On more than the rapping. Although you must like it when she goes 'HOLLER!'.
I think Nick is pretty.
Aw. That's nice. But how do you know? I'm saving up my photo for the return of Am I Cool Or Not? Actually, fuck that - I'm too worried that people will guess straight away that I'm a Belle & Sebastian fan.
― Nick, Sunday, 3 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Sterling Clover, Sunday, 3 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Kim, Sunday, 3 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Otis Wheeler, Monday, 4 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
But yeah, "Fiesta" is a hella cool tune (I'm saving my thoughts on it - and 112, QB's Finest, Erick Sermon etc. etc. - for Skykicking though).
Kim, what you on about? I would kill for the Australian charts to look like this.
― Tim, Monday, 4 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Sterling Clover, Monday, 4 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― fred solinger, Monday, 4 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
He does go on to say, "Of course I haven't even heard the record yet, so I reserve the right to kick Nikka and her pfat australian booty to the curb if she ain't reppin' more than some pleasing imagery...", so he's covered either way. :)
― Dan Perry, Monday, 4 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Nick, Monday, 4 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
I have to say that I was absolutely thrilled to see old Lady Marmalade at number one. I have done a complete turnaround on Mecha- Christina. She's fabulous now, with her bizarre attempts at glamour and her loss of contact of reality. Cher seems far too sensible these days, so someone has to usurp her Queen of Bad Taste crown.
Of course, her singing is still awful.
However! It doesn't take away in the slightest from Lady Marmalade. All of Pink and Christina's caterwauling puts it totally over the top, kind of like a pop Welcome to the Jungle. And of course, Lil Kim is always welcome, providing an almost classy antidote to all manner of wailing going on elsewhere in the song. It makes me mad I still haven't seen the video for this...
― Nicole, Monday, 4 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
"lady marmalade" is a fucking juggernaut, though i don't know if that's a good thing. it basically just FRIGHTENS all competition. in the video, mya looks like the poor russian girl who's forced to sell her body for her family like sonya in crime & punishment, whereas the rest of the "girls" look like utter professional whores. lil' kim aside, pink looks most like a "lady of the evening" if only because she seems like she'd actually walk the walk, whereas christina seems so into herself that she'd make you pay to watch her masturbate.
lifehouse is total dawson rock. i never noticed how young they were until the other day. jeez. i wouldn't know "fiesta" if it bit me in the ass. lil' romeo is a str8 playa. how cool must it be to master p's son? and how bad are things going for no limit that he makes his son rap, possibly against his wishes? it'd be so great if his name actually is romeo.
Christia Aguilera has the most unattractive body I've ever seen on any famous person in the entire universe. What possessed her to put on all these whore clothes? I can't think of any other reason to be interested in her besides her looks, since she's a mechanical robot singer and certainly has no personality, so I don't feel bad dogging her physically because what the hell ELSE can you say about Christina Aguilera? And that HAIR.
― Ally, Monday, 4 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Because, despite all the evidence otherwise, you can tell by her triumphant smirk that Christina thinks she is the most attractive and talented diva ever. She makes Mariah look almost...normal and down to earth by comparison.
didn't anyone tell her, incidentally, that if you aren't attaching the garters to anything you're meant to remove them?
I'm sorry, I'm being really catty today.
Mecha-Christina is officially the scariest woman in the universe. The only thing that could be scarier would be if she started giving beauty tips to Margaret Thatcher. (Okay, I voulntarily place myself in the penalty box for inadvertenly invoking the mental image of Maggie in the "Lady Marmalade" video... sorry.)
i did, though.
This is not one of those questions.
"Excitement plays chicken with me constantly."
I think not.
Pop Eye: Whoever stole Christina's ass should steal her wig too, and probably just steal her while they're at it, even though of all the marmalade ladies' car crash caterwauling, hers is certainly the most spectacular (is she taking a Bullit for Fidel? She is half-cuban isn't she?). The real action in the charts is in the 3,4,5 spots -- the return of southern rock to the radio. Nelly, getting off "Gimme Three Steps" style, except he's grabbed the gunman's girl on the way out the saloon...Unkle Kracker Carpetbagger, putting the mellotron into modern country like he thinks the Beatles or REM would actually talk to a guy best known as Kid Rock's friend that isn't a dead midget, or the guy that does the worst theme song in WWF history (Is "Follow Me" is his one moment of brilliance, his "You're So Vain", or is ther more coming?)...I could totally imagine Nirvana doing "Hanging By A Moment" if they were still around, considering how spiritual Kurt was getting by the Unplugged days. It's basically Nirvana meets Hanson.
Most of the rap and R&B in the charts is quite bad...GURFO is Timbaland choking off his own revolution (it's so unfunky and ostentatious and Missy is just as embarassing a rapper as Magoo; "One Minute Man" makes me want her to just sing all the time and let other people rap), "Oochie Wally" is someone else choking on Timbaland's fumes, plus Nas at this point is probably an even worse rapper than Missy Elliot, "So Fresh So Clean" is only good for Andre's first verse ("Gator belts, patty-melts, and EL-do-RA-dos" is my kind of manifesto). As for Fiesta, here's a direct quote from my little brother, who listens to nothing but rap and R&B: "Give me something to listen to; I'm so sick of all this Fiesta Fiesta bullshit that I bought the new Linkin Park CD". I told him to listen to "Let Me Blow Your Mind". I'm beginning to really like Gwen Stefani, she can carry Moby and get carried by Eve. A total pro.
Unrelated to pop-eye: after doing some research, I've concluded that Slipknot is the best american band there is. Naked City-ish rhythms that sound like they were belted out on trashcans; a nu-metal vokillist that doesn't sound like a constipated child; brilliant, raving choruses like "You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes" (from "Eyeless"), costumes and makeup nearly as frightening as Christina's. Someone care to prove me wrong?
― Kris, Monday, 4 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
i think you explained why lifehouse is so awful. on the other hand, hanson are working with gregg alexander. isn't it weird? missy is an awful rapper, you'll get no arguments (i hope), but why does "gurfo" need to be funky? it's very stilted, yes, but that's exactly why i like it.
be careful with your brother. that kid who shot up santana high was listening to linkin park too. linkin park makes me think that my hometown should change its name back to beavertown (!). i'm starting to like gwen stefani too, heh heh heh. she should've gone ghetto YEARS ago. and now the neptunes are producing no doubt. what next?
slipknot aren't the best current american band. not much in the way of proof, but hey.
― Patrick, Monday, 4 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Fred's starting to like Gwen Stefani because everyone else is. I still hate her and in fact I hate her more now, but I like some No Doubt songs so who knows. I'll never like her, she's the annoying girl at my high school, this girl who was called Alisha and then she changed her name to Ally because she was stalking me and wanted my boyfriend and she started dressing like me, too. She reminds me of Gwen Stefani. So I really hate Gwen now that I thought about it.
Gwen Stefani w/Eve = cool, because her voice was quite breathy and subtle and didn't have the whiny plainitiveness that usually makes her voice so nails on chalkboard. Plus, as she didn't write the lyrics there's no dopey "Wah, my ex-boyfriend is so mean" subtext. Whether she could pull off something similar on her own is highly questionable, though.
Also, Gwen still sux. Because she was good at ska. I kid you not. She does nothing for the Moby track, and the Eve track is all about Dre, not any sort of vocals. Dre notably crafts a beat which compliments Eve's awkward flow, as opposed to usual when the beat seems to make her flow sound that much weaker.
― kiara courts, Saturday, 15 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Cozen (Cozen), Friday, 4 July 2003 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)