Summer anthem 2010

what are any of these?

Definitely not "Rock Your Body" or "Gettin' Over You", "One" is okay but not brill, I like "We No Speak Americano" and haven't knowingly heard the others.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-Z3YrHJ1sU
56 million views and Tim F has not heard of this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHoT4N43jK8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxuEl8qkErs

Without having heard most of these I'd assume the ones I don't know are Tiesto/Van Buuren-friendly stadium trance, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E9Ed9DUQoQ

None of these are trance.

Apart from the Tim Berg one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChzbYiYHOUU

And arguably that's more house than trance.

Definitely not the Edward Maya ones. I'd imagine the blokey chant bit in the Stromae tune is responsible for a lot of spilt French beer.

Pharrell really does not have a voice for house music.

We No Speak Americano is great!

Trance doesn't get you in the charts these day, anyway - even Tiesto tends to release his house tracks as singles. Oddly enough, the only way trance can still chart is when you slow it down and put southern rappers over it (ie, Three 6 Mafia/Pitbull/etc).

Chart successes in what country?

I'm assuming the answer is "not the US".

No Speak Americano has that 'sounds brilliant out of cars, kinda repetitive when you hear the whole thing'-ness?

I think nu-Balearic has totally eroded my resistance to the sappier end of trance because I am quite enjoying that Tim Berg track.

Shit, forgot this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChzbYiYHOUU

Argh, wrong link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKN5YQu0bz0

Sappiness is kind of a defining quallity of summer holiday tunes anyway.

It's funny how 'alors on danse' can go to no.1 in germany but the UK would not accept a French vocal like that.

GUETTA!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btypPwyjFIU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmnjL26OBcY

Alors on danse is greeeat, wow!

Is that Steve Nash putting the blindfold on him?

"One" has gotten some attention in the states via the club. It's been a while since I've enjoyed Pharrell's singing voice and the track ain't half bad. Alors On Danse is the better track though.

Also one of the big crossovers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGOCZzvphbY

"One" could be bigger chartwise if they slow it down a bit and get Luda or Pitbull instead of these weak-ass Pharrell vox.

americanoooo

Voted for Yolanda Be Cool in the end, the Stromae track is fun but the crispness of Americano is refreshing in the context of everything else here.

Uh I'm pretty sure K'Naan - Wavin' Flag is the summer anthem of 2010. I know it wasn't created in 2010 but I sure heard it a lot this summer and it has been described as "the people's anthem" -- so, in a matter of words, I am suggesting that this poll possibly lacks credibility.

sometimes lists of what is popular in the uk make me feel like i live on the other side of the world

Wavin Flag obv big tune chartwise (and in football stadiums) but a bit too slow/non-dancefloor oriented for summer anthem status?

Trance doesn't get you in the charts these day, anyway - even Tiesto tends to release his house tracks as singles. Oddly enough, the only way trance can still chart is when you slow it down and put southern rappers over it (ie, Three 6 Mafia/Pitbull/etc).

― Siegbran, Sunday, August 1, 2010 7:58 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4sJTeYJsEM

i guess the whole point is that "alors" wasn't trance, but whatever

don't think any of this is popular in the uk is it?

tho sometimes lists of what is popular on continental europe make me feel like i live on the other side of the world

I'll listen to the others at work tomorrow, but you gotta go a long way to best the big dumb fun of that We No Speak Americano track.

oh my god, David Guetta is tweeting in that video. KILL KILL KILL NOW.

(also the Supertramp sample - blech.)

stereo love

i like we no speak americano too though

don't think any of this is popular in the uk is it?

No Speak Americano is massive I think - plays on the NOW CD ads!

If anything but Alors On Danse wins this I'll be amazed and sad, what an amazing banger.

don't think any of this is popular in the uk is it?
--thank you so much mr funk (cozen)

Alors On Dance and Bromance will likely get a UK release once ppl are back from holidays in the Med, that's how the whole summer hit thing works.

oh my god, David Guetta is tweeting in that video. KILL KILL KILL NOW.

(also the Supertramp sample - blech.)
--pidyn pitch (Masonic Boom)

that "stereo love" i have heard a lot, coming from cars and stuff, but don't ever remember there being a vocal in it.

I live in Mexico and I can also attest to the massive popularity of all these songs at clubs and parties.

Also 'verano azul', released last year and a blatant rip-off of 'love generation' but inescapable around here on the past months:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaIppY7U3c0

'Stereo Love' and 'Alors on danse' are my favorites off of this list of nominees. 'We no speak americano' annoys me in principle but it feels somewhat refreshing when buried in the middle of a set of exhausted autotune crap-house.

Must be the only place in the world where Black Eyed Peas or David Guetta are not huge. I know it's an island and all but really...

Black Eyed Peas are huge here, Guetta is pretty big as well. I don't think any of the other records have much profile here but if they're that massive in Europe then they'll probably get a big push here in the autumn after everyone's back off holiday, which is how these things usually work.

English translation of Alors On Danse:

So lets dance
So lets dance
So lets dance

He who talks about studying, talks about work
He who talks about work, talks about money
He who talks about money, talks about spending
He who talks about spending, talks about debt
He who talks about debt, talks about the bailiff
And also about being in shit
He who talks about love, talks about children
Says forever and says divorce
He who talks about his close ones, talks about mourning because problems never come alone
He who talks about a crisis, talks about the world, talks about hunger, talks about the 3th world
He who talks about being tired, talks about awakening, tired from yesterday
So we party, to forget the problems

So lets dance
So lets dance
So lets dance

And you say this is the last time, because only death is worse
When you think everyone is ok and fine, nothing has happened
Ectasy spells problems or it sounds like the music
It gives you a trip and you put your head in your hands praying for it to end
But it's your body, not heaven and you stop listening.
Then you scream harder and it won't stop

So lets sing
Lalalalalala, Lalalalalala,
So lets sing
Lalalalalala, Lalalalalala,

So lets sing
And only when it ends, we dance
So lets dance
But wait, there's more

It's not the mobile phone use, it's the very obvious twitter branding.

That Swedish House Mafia track is aboslutely TERRIBLE but I can't stop watching because I want that little bitty teeny tiny synth thing they're making it on.

That's clearly a product tie-in that worked, unlike the twitter/mobile phone one. I want a little tiny white 303 looking thing that turns my saw-toothed waves into little LED pyramids as I play. That's utterly awesome.

Ahhhh, i've heard This Is My Life all over the place and not known what it is. Biiiiiiiiiiig tune!

that synth is apparently real

I was gonna say "WANT!" and then I read "The user interface is pretty much what you’d get if you crossed Kate Beckinsale with Scarlett Johansson and added in a touch of Delia Derbyshire. Meow!" and went facepalm.jpg

So clearly this is not going to be marketed to straight women, is it? :-(

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I was gonna say "WANT!" and then I read "The user interface is pretty much what you’d get if you crossed Kate Beckinsale with Scarlett Johansson and added in a touch of Delia Derbyshire. Meow!" and went facepalm.jpg

In fairness, it probably can't actually act.

Ooh, OK, I'm in love again. It's Swedish so it's all clean lines and socialist lack of overt sexism. It's just Synthtopia being dickheads with that description.

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