So we have the final chart for 2017 and we end it on a kind of a tame note. No real surprises apart from a couple of re-entries that I think can be explained away.
So what left the top ten? Not surprisingly "Feel it, Still" by Portugal the Man slipped to number 13 and was the only song to leave the top 10.
"Perfect" and its associated remixes by Ed Sheeran with Beyonce/Andrea Boccelli snared a fourth week at number one largely because nothing is getting close to it and "Divide" returned to number one on the album chart.
What did return to number 2 was "Havana" by Camila Cabello feat, Young Thug largely because it got a boost on iTunes, whether it's a chance of returning to number one is a wait and see.
That meant Eminem dropped to number three with "River" feat. Ed Sheeran. That song is getting tired really really fast. Sick of it already.
"Rockstar" by Post Malone and 21 Savage climbed back to number 4 overtaking Post Malone's other hit " I Fall Apart" at number 5 but I can see both these songs falling out of the top 5 if something stronger comes along.
Mariah Carey returns to the top ten for the first time in awhile with "All I want for Christmas is You" jumping from 11 to 6 but with Christmas now over, I can see this song dropping out of the chart pretty quickly so what comes into the top ten will be interesting to say the least.
"Silence" by Marshmello feat. Khalid remains steady at number 7. (Surprise hit for me but Khalid has had a huge 2017 so maybe it shouldn't of been a surprise)
The current Australian radio darling "Meant to Be" by Bebe Rexha featuring Florida Georgia Line dropped two places to number 8. If only Australian radio would push Thomas Rhett's "Marry Me" as much as they push "Meant to be"...
Two songs that look like they've peaked and are on the way out are "Let You Down" by NF which dropped one place to number 9 and "Wolves" by Marshmello and Selena Gomez rounding out the top 10 at number 10
Granted, I am not sure about what is exactly going to be replacing them because the biggest gainer this week was a Christmas song (even though it's not very Christmas in terms of the song's spirit) "Last Christmas" by WHAM which rose from 37 to 11. Other big gains were oddly "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber which jumped to 42 from 49 last week, Pink's "Beautiful Trauma" jumped from 36 to 26 and "What About Us" jumped from 46 to 39, "Whatever It Takes" by Imagine Dragons jumped from 48 to 34 (Cause it's actually the better of the Imagine Dragons songs on Evolve. Go figure)
I expect most of those gains to be lost next week though with some of those gains based on Christmas sales or being a song of the season as per Wham.
As for the losers? Biggest being "You Are the Reason" by Callum Scott which dropped from 27 to 46 and "Unforgettable" by French Montana feat. Swae-Lee falling from 38 to 47. Songs like "Sorry Not Sorry" by Demi Lovato and "Friends" by Justin Bieber and Bloodpop are on their way out.
So as I said there were no new entries inside the top 50 but outside the top 50? Well, there were two new entries to the top 100 with Paul Kelly's "How to Make Gravy" entering at 54 (yet again probably because of Christmas) and "This Is Me" by Keala Settle and the cast of The Greatest Showman entered at 79 (not surprising given it got performed at Carols by Candlelight).
As for re-entries? "Believer" by Imagine Dragons returned at 42 and "Galway Girl" by Ed Sheeran at number 50. Both probably because albums were popular Christmas gifts this year and Ed Sheeran does have the number one song in the country.
Two songs dropped out of the top 50 with "Walk on Water" by Eminem feat. Beyonce and "Stargazing" by Kygo and Justin Jesso falling out.
That wraps the week and yeah, hopefully we get a interesting week cause the chart badly needs a shake up just to get what looks to be some unstability going.
Monday, 1 January 2018
My Top 10 WORST hit Songs of 2017
It's time to begin the look back on the year in the charts with the top 10 worst hit songs of 2017. 2017 in terms of the charts was a huge improve on the boil that was top 40 music in 2016, there was plenty of good music and to be quite honest the good outweighed the bad in some ways on the ARIA chart however turnover was awfully slow which didn't see a lot of new music enter week in week out however there was still plenty of crap that hit the chart.
Now my rules are pretty simple.
1. A song must have appeared on the ARIA singles chart for more than three weeks so songs like "Swang" by Rae Sremmurd won't appear here.
2. Being overplayed on the radio is not a reason enough to put a song on this list.
3. No abuse. This is my list, my opinion. Yes, it hurts to read somebody trashing a song you love but there's no need to get abusive in disagreement with me! Abuse in the comments will be deleted.
Let's get on with this shall we and there's nowhere better than to begin a list of the worst hits of the year than with handing out a few dishonourable mentions, the first going to a song that has plenty of issues
Dishonourable Mention 1: "Issues" by Julia Michaels
2017 was the year songwriter Julia Michaels stepped in front the microphone however a part of me is wishing she'd stayed in the background because there is absolutely nothing to this song. NOTHING. It's supposed to be a positive upbeat anthem about a couple working through their problems and being together despite of the issues facing them but really this song feels like fake drama for the masses. The production doesn't hint at the issues between the pair and the lyrics are oddball eg: describing the partner as "perfect, poorly wired circuit" in the second verse, there's not even anything about HOW they are overcoming these issues between them.
Yeah I got issues and a lot of them are with this poorly written mess of a song but at least it didn't attempt to be sexy unlike...
Dishonourable Mention 2: "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" by Zayn and Taylor Swift
If people complained hard about the falsetto that Swae-Lee used in Rae Sremmurd's awful US hit "Swang" than I'm fairly certain that Zayn Malik's falsetto in "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" is just about the most unsexy thing on the soundtrack for what ironically is pretty much a porn film and what's even worse is that production is not even remotely sexy or even attractive. The only reason this song is not any higher on the least because Taylor Swift was the saving grace with her vocals carrying some passion.
This next song though got passionately grating in record time.
Dishonourable Mention 3: "Bad Liar" by Selena Gomez
Given 2017 wasn't exactly a good year for Selena Gomez personally so I do kind of feel bad for putting a song of hers on this list and "Bad Liar" isn't the worst song ("Fetish" is even worse). "Bad Liar" is here because the pre chorus and chorus just grew grating. The "I'm trying" repeated over and over again just makes me want to scream and could Selena at least inject a bit of passion if she's really trying and trying like she says she is not to think about this guy. Ugh. The only saving grace is the bass line samples Talking Heads "Psycho Killer".
Speaking of awful lyrics...
Dishonourable Mention 4: "Pretty Girl" by Maggie Lindemann
There's issues with this song that are pretty well obvious and it's more so obvious in the lyrics especially in the lines "If I drink or I smoke, I keep up with the guys", seriously? trying to down drinks like the guys is tantamount to attempting to destroy your liver and smoking only gives yourself emphysema meanwhile the whole song is supposed to be a female empowerment statement sung in this girlish voice that isn't empowering at least to me as a woman.
In 2017, I don't think I have heard such a lame love song such as this from DJ Khaled and co...
Dishonourable mention 5: "I'm The One" by DJ Khaled, Justin Bieber, Chance the Rapper, Quavo and Lil Wayne
What do you get when you have an overstuffed guest list including the biggest spoilt brat in pop music and lyrics that see the performers not only lack passion but a total lack of lyrical imagination? You get this mess that only barely managed to miss the top 10, seriously a chorus that manages to go "Oh-eh-oh-oh-oh, oh-eh-oh I'm the one" which makes me think of Old MacDonald had a farm even Bieber sounds bored singing his version, there's no passion or conviction in his singing at all.
Quavo compares him and his girl to be a modern day Bonnie and Clyde in his verse through a haze of auto tune while Lil Wayne says more like Whitney and Bobby...an abusive relationship and then proceeds to call himself a legend.
Ugh. DJ Khaled did SO MUCH BETTER with Rihanna and Bryson Tiller. Let's consign "I'm The One" to the museum of forgotten songs.
Now onto the list proper and Bieber makes yet another appearance...
10. "2U" by David Guetta and Justin Bieber
Yet again another song that Justin Bieber sounds bored while the song seems to interpolate a 2000s Daniel Bedingfield song. Bieber sounds absolutely bored but to be fair it's not like the production is any good from David Guetta here with piano, synths and oddball percussion. It's dull, lifeless song with a breakdown to forget. Hopefully in 2018, we'll get less songs like this.
Reggaeton made it's way onto the charts in 2017 and boy some reggaeton songs at least sounded better than this...
9. "Mi Gente" by J Balvin and Willy William
2017 saw a latin Spanish/Spanglish boom courtesy of "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee plus a remix featuring Justin Bieber topping the charts for what seemed like months this year thus sparking attempts to do similar with much worse songs and "Mi Gente" was the song that managed to drive me nuts this year from production where the horns sounded like bleating goats suffering from constipation, luckily we didn't see this song reach number one even with the Beyonce remix.
So a question for Halsey, if you are so alternative, why do you keep releasing terrible pop songs?
8. "Now Or Never" by Halsey
Halsey, all things considered has had a pretty decent year, she's gotten songs off "hopeless fountain kingdom" to chart, "Bad at Love" sits in the Billboard Hot 100 top ten and her duet with boyfriend G-Eazy looks like it will be a massive hit but none of that stops "Now or Never" from sucking, Halsey attempts to be sexy but the music doesn't match with it and the song comes off sounding like a tacky 50 Shades of Grey soundtrack offcut (seriously, most of the soundtracks for the two movies so far have been incredibly unsexy) and Halsey comes off sounding like a braying goat in the chorus as she asks the guy to sleep with her already...just incredibly unattractive.
7. "Perfect" by Ed Sheeran
Ugh. I know the rules state that boring songs can't make the list but I am sick and tired of Ed Sheeran releasing songs like this as singles, it's gotten to a point of being overdone now, Sheeran is a more interesting artist than what he shows in this song that in parts sounds very similar to "Amazing Grace". The fact that there has been so many done to death remixes of song involving Beyonce and Andrea Boccelli says enough that Sheeran has no faith in it.
At least "Perfect" is better lyrically than the mess Train managed to come up with.
6. "Play That Song" by Train
There's no way around it, this song is pure gross, Pat Monahan wants the DJ play his girlfriend's favourite song because it makes her "go all night long"...here's a tip, Pat, if she wants the song to be played all night long, don't be lazy and put the damn song on yourself!. Not to mention the off key "Ooooh" at the end of the chorus with arrogant instrumentation. Yuck. This song is enough to make me want to sing "Turn that rubbish off"
While the lyrics of "Play that Song" are pretty damn awful, they don't sink into that sink of icky like this next song.
5. "Your Song" by Rita Ora
This song increasingly drove me up the wall this year and it's not just because of the auto tune that seems smothered over the song like cheap mayonnaise but the lyrics which leave me wanting to throw up from the opening verse where she wakes up with a fear but the taste of him is on the tip of her tongue and he is by his side with smoke filling their lungs. Seriously?
Ora then proceeds to sing in the chorus that she doesn't want to sing sad songs...just love songs. That would be okay if most love songs were actually happy love songs but a lot of love songs are sad hence the lyric really doesn't make sense at all but even than it only makes the song mediocre at best.
What tips this song over into being absolutely awful is this lyric in the second verse And then we make love, right there on your best friend's couch" which is gross, you wouldn't have sex with your partner in his best friend's bed so why do it on his best friend's couch? Just disgusting.
While this song was icky and gross, at least Rita had a better year than one pop girl whose purposeful woke pop got increasingly myopic and shrill in 2017
4. "Chained to the Rhythm" by Katy Perry feat. Skip Marley
2017 was the year that Katy Perry threw herself into the idea of "purposeful/woke" pop music which resulted in Perry losing what made her an good pop act to become this boring shadow of what she used to be and while "Chained to the Rhythm" isn't the worst song that was releaserd a single or even off the album, it's a song that misses it's message so badly, it's nearly funny.
"Chained to the Rhythm" bemoans how we're all stuck inside this massive bubble yet I can't help but wonder about this coming from somebody who previously made some of the best mindless pop music eg: "I Kissed a Girl" and "Hot 'n' Cold" yet we're being made to sit through a washed out disco song while she complains bitterly about how the bubble we're in is chained to some rhythm that gave her some of the BIGGEST hits of her career.
As for the political aspect, there's a way of doing political songs right and boy oh boy, this song misses the mark entirely. I get Perry is a big support of Hillary Clinton but she went about it the wrong way with this song. If she had written a song about how we're chained to toxic attitudes and not willing to change then it could have saved this song but as it is, no thanks.
However say what you will about the attempt at politics by Katy Perry, "Chained to the Rhythm" is marginally more listenable than this effort from Imagine Dragons.
3. "Thunder" by Imagine Dragons
This song is borderline close to unbearable as it gets. Basically a synth driven song while an automated female voice repeats the word "Thunder" over and over again, you'd swear it was on loop she says it so much before Dan Reynolds goes through his struggle to get to where he is today as lead singer of Imagine Dragons.
As for the instrumentation, there's nothing remotely thunderous or even fearsome about it. Just "music" that would fit an ad for some crappy Mazda RX-7 and all through it that automated female voice saying "Thunder" before the band shout "Thunder! Thunder! Lightning and the thunder!". Ugh. I think I'll stick to Imagine Dragons best song "Whatever It Takes" and hope that becomes a hit in 2018.
Hey Taylor Swift, look what your awful song made me do!
2. "Look What You Made Me Do" by Taylor Swift
So this was the lead off single from 'reputation' by Taylor Swift (an album that is her worst scoring album on Metacritic by the way) and Really the only thing that stops it from being number one is that bridge where there was a sliver of some decent quality there with dramatic instrumentation but that quality evaporated into a chorus that sees Taylor Swift interpolate "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred and one of the WORST songs of 2016 "Me Too" by Meghan Trainor in a song all too intent on stamping Taylor trying to whip up public sympathy when she doesn't explain at all what her haters made her do.
"Look What You Made Me Do" showed that in 2017, Taylor Swifr lost a lot of her dignity in a ridiculously childish and petulant song that made her look even worse than her haters!
So in a year where people finally began standing up and saying sexual harrassment in the entertainment industry was a very real thing and needed to be stamped out (needs to be stamped out EVERYWHERE), we get this atrocity and it's so ridiculously deserving of number 1 on this list.
1. "Body Like a Backroad" by Sam Hunt
The fundamental idea of this song just makes me want to throw up: Sam Hunt knows his partner's body so well that he knows the girl's body like a back road, you know one of those roads that's riddled with cracks, potholes, not been repaired in months because the council can't be bothered and more than likely doesn't get many people driving over it but you drive it anyway to avoid the RBT units after a night out...ugh.
Oh and Sam Hunt can turn his girl's jeans out, he doesn't need any help apparently.
Pair the lyrics with a slurry of bad 2017 hip hop trends, a weak guitar, gang vocals and Sam Hunt's smug vocals, you have one of the worst "country" songs to somehow become the biggest country song this year in Australia and the USA. Yet, we can't even get "Marry Me" by Thomas Rhett to chart here!
Hey Australia, if you want to get country music onto the ARIA Singles Chart, there's better examples than this awful leering mess of a song eg: "5 More Minutes" by Scotty McCreery or even any song from Kelsea Ballerini's last album. Just saying.
"Body Like a Back Road by Sam Hunt" the worst hit song of 2017
Now my rules are pretty simple.
1. A song must have appeared on the ARIA singles chart for more than three weeks so songs like "Swang" by Rae Sremmurd won't appear here.
2. Being overplayed on the radio is not a reason enough to put a song on this list.
3. No abuse. This is my list, my opinion. Yes, it hurts to read somebody trashing a song you love but there's no need to get abusive in disagreement with me! Abuse in the comments will be deleted.
Let's get on with this shall we and there's nowhere better than to begin a list of the worst hits of the year than with handing out a few dishonourable mentions, the first going to a song that has plenty of issues
Dishonourable Mention 1: "Issues" by Julia Michaels
2017 was the year songwriter Julia Michaels stepped in front the microphone however a part of me is wishing she'd stayed in the background because there is absolutely nothing to this song. NOTHING. It's supposed to be a positive upbeat anthem about a couple working through their problems and being together despite of the issues facing them but really this song feels like fake drama for the masses. The production doesn't hint at the issues between the pair and the lyrics are oddball eg: describing the partner as "perfect, poorly wired circuit" in the second verse, there's not even anything about HOW they are overcoming these issues between them.
Yeah I got issues and a lot of them are with this poorly written mess of a song but at least it didn't attempt to be sexy unlike...
Dishonourable Mention 2: "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" by Zayn and Taylor Swift
If people complained hard about the falsetto that Swae-Lee used in Rae Sremmurd's awful US hit "Swang" than I'm fairly certain that Zayn Malik's falsetto in "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" is just about the most unsexy thing on the soundtrack for what ironically is pretty much a porn film and what's even worse is that production is not even remotely sexy or even attractive. The only reason this song is not any higher on the least because Taylor Swift was the saving grace with her vocals carrying some passion.
This next song though got passionately grating in record time.
Dishonourable Mention 3: "Bad Liar" by Selena Gomez
Given 2017 wasn't exactly a good year for Selena Gomez personally so I do kind of feel bad for putting a song of hers on this list and "Bad Liar" isn't the worst song ("Fetish" is even worse). "Bad Liar" is here because the pre chorus and chorus just grew grating. The "I'm trying" repeated over and over again just makes me want to scream and could Selena at least inject a bit of passion if she's really trying and trying like she says she is not to think about this guy. Ugh. The only saving grace is the bass line samples Talking Heads "Psycho Killer".
Speaking of awful lyrics...
Dishonourable Mention 4: "Pretty Girl" by Maggie Lindemann
There's issues with this song that are pretty well obvious and it's more so obvious in the lyrics especially in the lines "If I drink or I smoke, I keep up with the guys", seriously? trying to down drinks like the guys is tantamount to attempting to destroy your liver and smoking only gives yourself emphysema meanwhile the whole song is supposed to be a female empowerment statement sung in this girlish voice that isn't empowering at least to me as a woman.
In 2017, I don't think I have heard such a lame love song such as this from DJ Khaled and co...
Dishonourable mention 5: "I'm The One" by DJ Khaled, Justin Bieber, Chance the Rapper, Quavo and Lil Wayne
What do you get when you have an overstuffed guest list including the biggest spoilt brat in pop music and lyrics that see the performers not only lack passion but a total lack of lyrical imagination? You get this mess that only barely managed to miss the top 10, seriously a chorus that manages to go "Oh-eh-oh-oh-oh, oh-eh-oh I'm the one" which makes me think of Old MacDonald had a farm even Bieber sounds bored singing his version, there's no passion or conviction in his singing at all.
Quavo compares him and his girl to be a modern day Bonnie and Clyde in his verse through a haze of auto tune while Lil Wayne says more like Whitney and Bobby...an abusive relationship and then proceeds to call himself a legend.
Ugh. DJ Khaled did SO MUCH BETTER with Rihanna and Bryson Tiller. Let's consign "I'm The One" to the museum of forgotten songs.
Now onto the list proper and Bieber makes yet another appearance...
10. "2U" by David Guetta and Justin Bieber
Yet again another song that Justin Bieber sounds bored while the song seems to interpolate a 2000s Daniel Bedingfield song. Bieber sounds absolutely bored but to be fair it's not like the production is any good from David Guetta here with piano, synths and oddball percussion. It's dull, lifeless song with a breakdown to forget. Hopefully in 2018, we'll get less songs like this.
Reggaeton made it's way onto the charts in 2017 and boy some reggaeton songs at least sounded better than this...
9. "Mi Gente" by J Balvin and Willy William
2017 saw a latin Spanish/Spanglish boom courtesy of "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee plus a remix featuring Justin Bieber topping the charts for what seemed like months this year thus sparking attempts to do similar with much worse songs and "Mi Gente" was the song that managed to drive me nuts this year from production where the horns sounded like bleating goats suffering from constipation, luckily we didn't see this song reach number one even with the Beyonce remix.
So a question for Halsey, if you are so alternative, why do you keep releasing terrible pop songs?
8. "Now Or Never" by Halsey
Halsey, all things considered has had a pretty decent year, she's gotten songs off "hopeless fountain kingdom" to chart, "Bad at Love" sits in the Billboard Hot 100 top ten and her duet with boyfriend G-Eazy looks like it will be a massive hit but none of that stops "Now or Never" from sucking, Halsey attempts to be sexy but the music doesn't match with it and the song comes off sounding like a tacky 50 Shades of Grey soundtrack offcut (seriously, most of the soundtracks for the two movies so far have been incredibly unsexy) and Halsey comes off sounding like a braying goat in the chorus as she asks the guy to sleep with her already...just incredibly unattractive.
7. "Perfect" by Ed Sheeran
Ugh. I know the rules state that boring songs can't make the list but I am sick and tired of Ed Sheeran releasing songs like this as singles, it's gotten to a point of being overdone now, Sheeran is a more interesting artist than what he shows in this song that in parts sounds very similar to "Amazing Grace". The fact that there has been so many done to death remixes of song involving Beyonce and Andrea Boccelli says enough that Sheeran has no faith in it.
At least "Perfect" is better lyrically than the mess Train managed to come up with.
6. "Play That Song" by Train
There's no way around it, this song is pure gross, Pat Monahan wants the DJ play his girlfriend's favourite song because it makes her "go all night long"...here's a tip, Pat, if she wants the song to be played all night long, don't be lazy and put the damn song on yourself!. Not to mention the off key "Ooooh" at the end of the chorus with arrogant instrumentation. Yuck. This song is enough to make me want to sing "Turn that rubbish off"
While the lyrics of "Play that Song" are pretty damn awful, they don't sink into that sink of icky like this next song.
5. "Your Song" by Rita Ora
This song increasingly drove me up the wall this year and it's not just because of the auto tune that seems smothered over the song like cheap mayonnaise but the lyrics which leave me wanting to throw up from the opening verse where she wakes up with a fear but the taste of him is on the tip of her tongue and he is by his side with smoke filling their lungs. Seriously?
Ora then proceeds to sing in the chorus that she doesn't want to sing sad songs...just love songs. That would be okay if most love songs were actually happy love songs but a lot of love songs are sad hence the lyric really doesn't make sense at all but even than it only makes the song mediocre at best.
What tips this song over into being absolutely awful is this lyric in the second verse And then we make love, right there on your best friend's couch" which is gross, you wouldn't have sex with your partner in his best friend's bed so why do it on his best friend's couch? Just disgusting.
While this song was icky and gross, at least Rita had a better year than one pop girl whose purposeful woke pop got increasingly myopic and shrill in 2017
4. "Chained to the Rhythm" by Katy Perry feat. Skip Marley
2017 was the year that Katy Perry threw herself into the idea of "purposeful/woke" pop music which resulted in Perry losing what made her an good pop act to become this boring shadow of what she used to be and while "Chained to the Rhythm" isn't the worst song that was releaserd a single or even off the album, it's a song that misses it's message so badly, it's nearly funny.
"Chained to the Rhythm" bemoans how we're all stuck inside this massive bubble yet I can't help but wonder about this coming from somebody who previously made some of the best mindless pop music eg: "I Kissed a Girl" and "Hot 'n' Cold" yet we're being made to sit through a washed out disco song while she complains bitterly about how the bubble we're in is chained to some rhythm that gave her some of the BIGGEST hits of her career.
As for the political aspect, there's a way of doing political songs right and boy oh boy, this song misses the mark entirely. I get Perry is a big support of Hillary Clinton but she went about it the wrong way with this song. If she had written a song about how we're chained to toxic attitudes and not willing to change then it could have saved this song but as it is, no thanks.
However say what you will about the attempt at politics by Katy Perry, "Chained to the Rhythm" is marginally more listenable than this effort from Imagine Dragons.
3. "Thunder" by Imagine Dragons
This song is borderline close to unbearable as it gets. Basically a synth driven song while an automated female voice repeats the word "Thunder" over and over again, you'd swear it was on loop she says it so much before Dan Reynolds goes through his struggle to get to where he is today as lead singer of Imagine Dragons.
As for the instrumentation, there's nothing remotely thunderous or even fearsome about it. Just "music" that would fit an ad for some crappy Mazda RX-7 and all through it that automated female voice saying "Thunder" before the band shout "Thunder! Thunder! Lightning and the thunder!". Ugh. I think I'll stick to Imagine Dragons best song "Whatever It Takes" and hope that becomes a hit in 2018.
Hey Taylor Swift, look what your awful song made me do!
2. "Look What You Made Me Do" by Taylor Swift
So this was the lead off single from 'reputation' by Taylor Swift (an album that is her worst scoring album on Metacritic by the way) and Really the only thing that stops it from being number one is that bridge where there was a sliver of some decent quality there with dramatic instrumentation but that quality evaporated into a chorus that sees Taylor Swift interpolate "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred and one of the WORST songs of 2016 "Me Too" by Meghan Trainor in a song all too intent on stamping Taylor trying to whip up public sympathy when she doesn't explain at all what her haters made her do.
"Look What You Made Me Do" showed that in 2017, Taylor Swifr lost a lot of her dignity in a ridiculously childish and petulant song that made her look even worse than her haters!
So in a year where people finally began standing up and saying sexual harrassment in the entertainment industry was a very real thing and needed to be stamped out (needs to be stamped out EVERYWHERE), we get this atrocity and it's so ridiculously deserving of number 1 on this list.
1. "Body Like a Backroad" by Sam Hunt
The fundamental idea of this song just makes me want to throw up: Sam Hunt knows his partner's body so well that he knows the girl's body like a back road, you know one of those roads that's riddled with cracks, potholes, not been repaired in months because the council can't be bothered and more than likely doesn't get many people driving over it but you drive it anyway to avoid the RBT units after a night out...ugh.
Oh and Sam Hunt can turn his girl's jeans out, he doesn't need any help apparently.
Pair the lyrics with a slurry of bad 2017 hip hop trends, a weak guitar, gang vocals and Sam Hunt's smug vocals, you have one of the worst "country" songs to somehow become the biggest country song this year in Australia and the USA. Yet, we can't even get "Marry Me" by Thomas Rhett to chart here!
Hey Australia, if you want to get country music onto the ARIA Singles Chart, there's better examples than this awful leering mess of a song eg: "5 More Minutes" by Scotty McCreery or even any song from Kelsea Ballerini's last album. Just saying.
"Body Like a Back Road by Sam Hunt" the worst hit song of 2017
Monday, 25 December 2017
ARIA top ten Chart/review: December 25
As we wind down to the end of the year the chart continues to slow down which couldn't be more true of this week's ARIA chart with only one new entry and two re-entries. The only song to leave the top 10 is "Young, Dumb and Broke" by Khalid which slipped down to number 13.
Remaining at number 1 is "Perfect" by Ed Sheeran and it's various remixes. I don't see this being knocked off number one any time soon.
Then we get to the lone new entry for the week at number 2 with "River" by Eminem feat. Ed Sheeran largely off the back of large radio airplay and the release of Eminem's album "Revival"
That means that "Havana" by Camilla Cabello feat. Young Thug got bumped back number 3, I suspect this song may start to slide hard in the weeks ahead.
"I Fall Apart" by Post Malone remains at four but its overtaken "Rockstar" by Post Malone and 31 Savage which slipped 2 places to number 5.
"Meant to Be" by Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line remains at number 6.
"Silence" by Marshmello and Khalid slipped 2 places to number 7.
NF's "Let You Down" dropped one place to number 8 while Marshmello's other song inside the top 10 "Wolves" with Selena Gomez dropped one place to number 9.
Portugal, the Man remain steady with "Feel it, Still" rounding out the top 10 at number 10.
Outside of the top 10, the biggest gainer of the week was "Dirty Sexy Money" by David Guetta, Afrojack, Charli XCX and French Montana which jumped 10 places to 23. Other songs that jumped up the chart were the forgettable "Him & I" by G-Eazy feat. Halsey to number 16, "Go Bang" by PNAU continues to go bang jumping from 21 to 17, in more good news for Australian acts Sheppard rose following their top 50 debut last week to move into the top 40 at number 33 with "Coming Home" (That song is fantastic, if you haven't checked it out, what are you waiting for?) and "All I want for Christmas is You" by Mariah Carey climbing to the edge of the top 10 at number 11 (That song should decline soon given Christmas is virtually over)
As for the biggest loser of the week, I took great delight in seeing the 10 place fall of the abominable "Gucci Gang" by Lil Pump which dropped to 32 but apart from that there were no real major losers. The chart seems to try to begin the process of flushing the hits of 2017 out of the chart.
I mentioned the one lone new entry to the top 50, all of the new entries to the top 100 were Eminem album tracks which I won't go through here.
Speaking of Eminem, "Walk on Water" with Beyonce re-entered at number 44 while the onset of Christmas saw "Last Christmas" by Wham re-enter at number 36.
So that rounds up the top ten/Chart review for this week. Seems fairly likely "Perfect" will remain number one but with radio loving "River" who knows?
Remaining at number 1 is "Perfect" by Ed Sheeran and it's various remixes. I don't see this being knocked off number one any time soon.
Then we get to the lone new entry for the week at number 2 with "River" by Eminem feat. Ed Sheeran largely off the back of large radio airplay and the release of Eminem's album "Revival"
That means that "Havana" by Camilla Cabello feat. Young Thug got bumped back number 3, I suspect this song may start to slide hard in the weeks ahead.
"I Fall Apart" by Post Malone remains at four but its overtaken "Rockstar" by Post Malone and 31 Savage which slipped 2 places to number 5.
"Meant to Be" by Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line remains at number 6.
"Silence" by Marshmello and Khalid slipped 2 places to number 7.
NF's "Let You Down" dropped one place to number 8 while Marshmello's other song inside the top 10 "Wolves" with Selena Gomez dropped one place to number 9.
Portugal, the Man remain steady with "Feel it, Still" rounding out the top 10 at number 10.
Outside of the top 10, the biggest gainer of the week was "Dirty Sexy Money" by David Guetta, Afrojack, Charli XCX and French Montana which jumped 10 places to 23. Other songs that jumped up the chart were the forgettable "Him & I" by G-Eazy feat. Halsey to number 16, "Go Bang" by PNAU continues to go bang jumping from 21 to 17, in more good news for Australian acts Sheppard rose following their top 50 debut last week to move into the top 40 at number 33 with "Coming Home" (That song is fantastic, if you haven't checked it out, what are you waiting for?) and "All I want for Christmas is You" by Mariah Carey climbing to the edge of the top 10 at number 11 (That song should decline soon given Christmas is virtually over)
As for the biggest loser of the week, I took great delight in seeing the 10 place fall of the abominable "Gucci Gang" by Lil Pump which dropped to 32 but apart from that there were no real major losers. The chart seems to try to begin the process of flushing the hits of 2017 out of the chart.
I mentioned the one lone new entry to the top 50, all of the new entries to the top 100 were Eminem album tracks which I won't go through here.
Speaking of Eminem, "Walk on Water" with Beyonce re-entered at number 44 while the onset of Christmas saw "Last Christmas" by Wham re-enter at number 36.
So that rounds up the top ten/Chart review for this week. Seems fairly likely "Perfect" will remain number one but with radio loving "River" who knows?
Monday, 18 December 2017
ARIA Chart top ten/Review: December 18th
So little happened this week that I was wondering if I should even bother with this this week but then I saw we had interesting things happen lower down the chart including the arrival of a fantastic song by an Australian band on the chart.
The one song to leave the top 10 was "What Lovers Do" by Maroon 5 and SZA (good, not a fan of it at all. It's not the worst Maroon 5 song by any stretch but still it's not good)
For a second week "Perfect" and it's various remixes by Ed Sheeran featuring Beyonce and Andrea Boccelli remains at number one and right now I think it's pretty much a lock to hold number one over the Christmas/New Year period.
Former chart toppers "Havana" by Camila Cabello remains at number 2 and "Rockstar" by Post Malone and 21 Savage (although I note that "Rockstar" recently got a Spanish remix which features Nicky Jam).
"I Fall Apart" by Post Malone stays at number 4 while "Silence" by Marshmello and Khalid spends another week at number 5
"Meant to be" by Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line jumped two places to number six. There's real potential for this song to bust open the top 5 here which while the song isn't all that good, it'd be nice because that top 5 has felt stagnant lately.
"Let You Down" by NF remains at number 7 for a second week,
"Wolves" by Marshmello and Selena Gomez pretty much swapped with "Meant to be" by falling two places to number 8.
"Young, Dumb and Broke" by Khalid remains at number 9.
Returning to the top 10 with four place climb is "Feel It Still" by Portugal, The Man at number 10.
The biggest gainer this week was "Him & I" by G-Eazy and Halsey which jumped from 37 to 25...quite why I don't know.
In good Australian music news, Pnau had a jump of ten places to number 21 with "Go Bang" meanwhile former number 1 "Shape Of You" continues to climb back up the chart, it's at number 22. Big Shaq's "Man Not Hot" jumped from 33 to 28 while for some unexplained reason "Humble" by Kendrick Lamar leaped from 46 to 37 (it's a good song but really?).
A lot of songs took falls this week with "Mi Gente" by J. Balvin and Willy William slipping from 40 to 49 (Good, the sooner that song is gone the better). Songs like "Glorious" by Macklemore and Skylar Grey at 27, "I Like Me Better" by Lauv at 26, the "Homemade Dynamite" remix by Lorde, Khalid, SZA and Post Malone at 30 all took 4 place drops.
As for the drop outs, bit disappointed to be losing "Walk on Water" by Eminem feat. Beyonce and "Lay It On Me" by Vance Joy but I guess if they are taking "Bad at Love" by Halsey with them, it kind makes it okay...I guess.
So what replaced them? The highest new entry to the top 50 this week was the piano ballad "You are the reason" by Calum Scott at number 36 and in news I mentioned at the beginning of this blog, Aussie band Sheppard have another hit on the ARIA chart with "Coming Home" at number 43 (seriously Austrtalia, stream or buy or watch the video, we need this to do well).
Outside of the top 50? Well...Camila Cabello's new single "Never Be the Same" arrived at number 52 while Morgan Evans song about marriage "I Do" entered at 72.
The news wasn't as good on the re-entries because the lone re-entry to the top 50 was Taylor Swift's "...Ready for It?" most probably due to a remix of the song with BloodPop.
Re-entries outside of the top 50 were "Last Christmas" by Wham at 55 (unsurprisingly) and "Chameleon" by Pnau at 95.
Now I am going leave you with a hit pick from the United States Billboard Hot 100, it only entered the chart there last week but this song deserves your attention. Former American Idol winner Scotty McCreery has released a new single called "Five More Minutes" and it is absolutely stunning, we need to make this song a hit in Australia, please? If we can make the absolute worst of country music (Hi Sam Hunt) a hit, we can also make one of best country songs hit too.
The one song to leave the top 10 was "What Lovers Do" by Maroon 5 and SZA (good, not a fan of it at all. It's not the worst Maroon 5 song by any stretch but still it's not good)
For a second week "Perfect" and it's various remixes by Ed Sheeran featuring Beyonce and Andrea Boccelli remains at number one and right now I think it's pretty much a lock to hold number one over the Christmas/New Year period.
Former chart toppers "Havana" by Camila Cabello remains at number 2 and "Rockstar" by Post Malone and 21 Savage (although I note that "Rockstar" recently got a Spanish remix which features Nicky Jam).
"I Fall Apart" by Post Malone stays at number 4 while "Silence" by Marshmello and Khalid spends another week at number 5
"Meant to be" by Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line jumped two places to number six. There's real potential for this song to bust open the top 5 here which while the song isn't all that good, it'd be nice because that top 5 has felt stagnant lately.
"Let You Down" by NF remains at number 7 for a second week,
"Wolves" by Marshmello and Selena Gomez pretty much swapped with "Meant to be" by falling two places to number 8.
"Young, Dumb and Broke" by Khalid remains at number 9.
Returning to the top 10 with four place climb is "Feel It Still" by Portugal, The Man at number 10.
The biggest gainer this week was "Him & I" by G-Eazy and Halsey which jumped from 37 to 25...quite why I don't know.
In good Australian music news, Pnau had a jump of ten places to number 21 with "Go Bang" meanwhile former number 1 "Shape Of You" continues to climb back up the chart, it's at number 22. Big Shaq's "Man Not Hot" jumped from 33 to 28 while for some unexplained reason "Humble" by Kendrick Lamar leaped from 46 to 37 (it's a good song but really?).
A lot of songs took falls this week with "Mi Gente" by J. Balvin and Willy William slipping from 40 to 49 (Good, the sooner that song is gone the better). Songs like "Glorious" by Macklemore and Skylar Grey at 27, "I Like Me Better" by Lauv at 26, the "Homemade Dynamite" remix by Lorde, Khalid, SZA and Post Malone at 30 all took 4 place drops.
As for the drop outs, bit disappointed to be losing "Walk on Water" by Eminem feat. Beyonce and "Lay It On Me" by Vance Joy but I guess if they are taking "Bad at Love" by Halsey with them, it kind makes it okay...I guess.
So what replaced them? The highest new entry to the top 50 this week was the piano ballad "You are the reason" by Calum Scott at number 36 and in news I mentioned at the beginning of this blog, Aussie band Sheppard have another hit on the ARIA chart with "Coming Home" at number 43 (seriously Austrtalia, stream or buy or watch the video, we need this to do well).
Outside of the top 50? Well...Camila Cabello's new single "Never Be the Same" arrived at number 52 while Morgan Evans song about marriage "I Do" entered at 72.
The news wasn't as good on the re-entries because the lone re-entry to the top 50 was Taylor Swift's "...Ready for It?" most probably due to a remix of the song with BloodPop.
Re-entries outside of the top 50 were "Last Christmas" by Wham at 55 (unsurprisingly) and "Chameleon" by Pnau at 95.
Now I am going leave you with a hit pick from the United States Billboard Hot 100, it only entered the chart there last week but this song deserves your attention. Former American Idol winner Scotty McCreery has released a new single called "Five More Minutes" and it is absolutely stunning, we need to make this song a hit in Australia, please? If we can make the absolute worst of country music (Hi Sam Hunt) a hit, we can also make one of best country songs hit too.
Thursday, 14 December 2017
New Music Friday Review: Camila Cabello, Augie March and...Mariana's Trench?
So we actually got some pretty good quality this New Music Friday, Camila Cabello released two new songs from her forthcoming album released on January 12 while Augie March return and it really is time for everybody in Australia to stop sleeping on Canadian pop punk band Mariana's Trench.
Song: Never Be the Same
Artist: Camilla Cabello
This song is apparently the follow up single to "Havana" but gee I wish I liked this more. The rattling percussion and the static like buzz hat under pin the melody in the verses before Camila pulls out her best Kate Bush impression in the pre chorus and chorus. Not a fan at all, it's not the worst but it's not something I'm keen on coming back to.
Rating: 5/10
Song: Real Friends
Artist: Camila Cabello
The better of the two songs Camila released because this track is largely rooted in guitar and it just works for Camila's vocals and quite honestly it's a song that connects more for me that Never Be The Same at least for me with Cabello on the search for 'real friends' that she can talk random stuff with. This is a nice song and I really wish this had been the single!
Rating: 7/10
Song: Bootikin
Artist: Augie March
I feel guilty that I don't push near enough Australian music so when Augie March dropped the title track from their forth coming album I was not going to miss the opportunity because as usual Augie March have released a great song that is in part dramatic and speaks to elements of the modern world. This is just a great rock song, I haven't ever really been into Augie March but this song may well just change all that.
Rating: 9/10
Song: Rhythm of Your Heart
Artist: Mariana's Trench
Mariana's Trench are a Canadian pop punk band who for some inexplicable reason have only ever experienced success in their homeland and not ever in the United States or anywhere else for some reason. (Check out their 2015 album Astoria, you will not regret it for one second).
Their newest song "Rhythm of Your Heart" which isn't on Astoria is a very eighties sounding affair with Josh Ramsay (the lead vocallist and main songwriter) sounding like he is in love but knows it's probably not a good idea, this song should be a hit around the but given the fact it feels like their management isn't keen to promote them around the world....sigh.
Rating: 8/10
Best of the week: "Bootikins" by Augie March is getting it this week no questions asked. Awesome song. If people believe in good Australian rock music then they will buy this as it deserves to be a hit
Worst: "Untouchable" by Eminem. Sadly this isn't Em's best work. Feels like he is trying way too hard to be like the young guys in the rap game right now.
New Music Friday next week
Tomorrow is the final major album release day really before everything slows down for the Christmas break. Expect new albums from Eminem and G-Eazy plus a new EP from Charli XCX.
Song: Never Be the Same
Artist: Camilla Cabello
This song is apparently the follow up single to "Havana" but gee I wish I liked this more. The rattling percussion and the static like buzz hat under pin the melody in the verses before Camila pulls out her best Kate Bush impression in the pre chorus and chorus. Not a fan at all, it's not the worst but it's not something I'm keen on coming back to.
Rating: 5/10
Song: Real Friends
Artist: Camila Cabello
The better of the two songs Camila released because this track is largely rooted in guitar and it just works for Camila's vocals and quite honestly it's a song that connects more for me that Never Be The Same at least for me with Cabello on the search for 'real friends' that she can talk random stuff with. This is a nice song and I really wish this had been the single!
Rating: 7/10
Song: Bootikin
Artist: Augie March
I feel guilty that I don't push near enough Australian music so when Augie March dropped the title track from their forth coming album I was not going to miss the opportunity because as usual Augie March have released a great song that is in part dramatic and speaks to elements of the modern world. This is just a great rock song, I haven't ever really been into Augie March but this song may well just change all that.
Rating: 9/10
Song: Rhythm of Your Heart
Artist: Mariana's Trench
Mariana's Trench are a Canadian pop punk band who for some inexplicable reason have only ever experienced success in their homeland and not ever in the United States or anywhere else for some reason. (Check out their 2015 album Astoria, you will not regret it for one second).
Their newest song "Rhythm of Your Heart" which isn't on Astoria is a very eighties sounding affair with Josh Ramsay (the lead vocallist and main songwriter) sounding like he is in love but knows it's probably not a good idea, this song should be a hit around the but given the fact it feels like their management isn't keen to promote them around the world....sigh.
Rating: 8/10
Best of the week: "Bootikins" by Augie March is getting it this week no questions asked. Awesome song. If people believe in good Australian rock music then they will buy this as it deserves to be a hit
Worst: "Untouchable" by Eminem. Sadly this isn't Em's best work. Feels like he is trying way too hard to be like the young guys in the rap game right now.
New Music Friday next week
Tomorrow is the final major album release day really before everything slows down for the Christmas break. Expect new albums from Eminem and G-Eazy plus a new EP from Charli XCX.
Monday, 11 December 2017
ARIA Top Ten/ Chart Review: 11th December: New number one as two songs crash into top 10
This week saw plenty happen, not only do we have a new number one but we also have two songs crash into the top 10 with at least one looking likely to be a shot at climbing even higher so this week wasn't all bad and we had some new entries to boot including a song from an artist running hot right now.
The top ten lost "New Rules" by Dua Lipa which slipped to number 13 and 'Too Good at Goodbyes" by Sam Smith dropped to number 11.
So what's the new number one? Unfortunately it's the horribly bland and sappy "Perfect" by Ed Sheeran (Beyonce won't be credited on the track until next week) but there's no doubt that Beyonce appearing on a remixed version of the track helped push it to number one. It also comes as we learn that Sheeran is planning on a third remix of the song with Andrea Boccelli as if we actually wanted an even more sappy version of the track.
"Havana" by Camila Cabello slipped back to number two and given she has begun promoting her new single "Never Be the Same", I can't see this returning to number one especially when you consider what has momentum behind it.
The same applies for Post Malone and 21 Savage's 'rockstar" which slipped to number 3 and also Post Malone's "I Fall Apart" at number 4. These two songs have most likely peaked and while they may hang onto their position next week given streaming for both songs is pretty impressive.
Marshmello and Khalid arrive in the top 5 with "Silence, it climbs past Marshmello's hit with Selena Gomez "Wolves" at number 6.
I called it on Twitter last week, NF climbed into the top ten this week with "Let You Down" jumping four places to number seven.
What I didn't call was the surprise at number 8 with "Meant to be" by Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line being the biggest climber of the week by jumping from 26 to 8. It's the first top ten hit in Australia for either artist.
Then we have two songs that are pretty much on their way out anyway, Khalid's "Young, Dumb and Broke" dropping two places to number 9 and "What Lovers do" by Maroon 5 and SZA dropping two places to round out the top ten at number 10.
So what else was a big mover up apart from "Meant to be"? Oddly enough, a past number one "Shape of You" by Ed Sheeran jumped from 32 to 25 but that could be because of the current number one, "I Miss You" by Clean Bandit and Julia Michaels jumped from 46 to 28, "Go Bang" by PNAU jumped from 42 to 31 (Go Aussies!) but apart from those, no real major gainers this week.
As for a top ten entry prediction, look for "Let Me go" by Hailee Steinfeld feat. Alesso and Watt to enter the top ten soon.
As for the biggest fallers, that honour falls to Pink this week with her former chart topper "What About Us" dropping to 43 from 28 last week, it wasn't a good week for Pink at all even though her album returned to number one on the album charts with the title track "Beautiful Trauma" dropping from 25 to 36. "Mi Gente" by J Balvin and Willy William dropped from 33 to 40, "Walk on Water" by Eminem and Beyonce continues to under perform dropping to 38 from 24
There was one re-entry and surprisingly quite high up, it's also one of the worst Christmas songs known to man, "All I want for Christmas is You" by Mariah Carey re-entered at number 18.
Two new entries to the top 50 this week and I called out this song as being likely to be huge last, well "Candy Paint" by Post Malone has arrived at number 24, this song is showing all the signs of being BIGGER than both "rockstar" and "I Fall Apart" put together.
As for the other new entry, it's only G-Easy and Halsey's pipe dream of being the modern Bonnie and Clyde "Him & I" at number 37.
As for new entries to the top 100, there were two with "So Far away" by Martin Garrix and David Guetta feat. Jamie Scott and Romy Dya at number 58 and "Miss You" by Louis Tomlinson at 66.
Nothing all that remarkable or surprising with the drop outs, there were three "Too Much to Ask" by Niall Horan, " Bodak Yellow (Money Moves" by Cardi B and "Mic Drop" by BTS and Desiigner all dropped out.
So that rounds things up for the week. Hopefully I'll have my worst hit songs of the year up at some point this week and also New Music Friday Review coming up with plenty of Camila Cabello to talk about!
The top ten lost "New Rules" by Dua Lipa which slipped to number 13 and 'Too Good at Goodbyes" by Sam Smith dropped to number 11.
So what's the new number one? Unfortunately it's the horribly bland and sappy "Perfect" by Ed Sheeran (Beyonce won't be credited on the track until next week) but there's no doubt that Beyonce appearing on a remixed version of the track helped push it to number one. It also comes as we learn that Sheeran is planning on a third remix of the song with Andrea Boccelli as if we actually wanted an even more sappy version of the track.
"Havana" by Camila Cabello slipped back to number two and given she has begun promoting her new single "Never Be the Same", I can't see this returning to number one especially when you consider what has momentum behind it.
The same applies for Post Malone and 21 Savage's 'rockstar" which slipped to number 3 and also Post Malone's "I Fall Apart" at number 4. These two songs have most likely peaked and while they may hang onto their position next week given streaming for both songs is pretty impressive.
Marshmello and Khalid arrive in the top 5 with "Silence, it climbs past Marshmello's hit with Selena Gomez "Wolves" at number 6.
I called it on Twitter last week, NF climbed into the top ten this week with "Let You Down" jumping four places to number seven.
What I didn't call was the surprise at number 8 with "Meant to be" by Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line being the biggest climber of the week by jumping from 26 to 8. It's the first top ten hit in Australia for either artist.
Then we have two songs that are pretty much on their way out anyway, Khalid's "Young, Dumb and Broke" dropping two places to number 9 and "What Lovers do" by Maroon 5 and SZA dropping two places to round out the top ten at number 10.
So what else was a big mover up apart from "Meant to be"? Oddly enough, a past number one "Shape of You" by Ed Sheeran jumped from 32 to 25 but that could be because of the current number one, "I Miss You" by Clean Bandit and Julia Michaels jumped from 46 to 28, "Go Bang" by PNAU jumped from 42 to 31 (Go Aussies!) but apart from those, no real major gainers this week.
As for a top ten entry prediction, look for "Let Me go" by Hailee Steinfeld feat. Alesso and Watt to enter the top ten soon.
As for the biggest fallers, that honour falls to Pink this week with her former chart topper "What About Us" dropping to 43 from 28 last week, it wasn't a good week for Pink at all even though her album returned to number one on the album charts with the title track "Beautiful Trauma" dropping from 25 to 36. "Mi Gente" by J Balvin and Willy William dropped from 33 to 40, "Walk on Water" by Eminem and Beyonce continues to under perform dropping to 38 from 24
There was one re-entry and surprisingly quite high up, it's also one of the worst Christmas songs known to man, "All I want for Christmas is You" by Mariah Carey re-entered at number 18.
Two new entries to the top 50 this week and I called out this song as being likely to be huge last, well "Candy Paint" by Post Malone has arrived at number 24, this song is showing all the signs of being BIGGER than both "rockstar" and "I Fall Apart" put together.
As for the other new entry, it's only G-Easy and Halsey's pipe dream of being the modern Bonnie and Clyde "Him & I" at number 37.
As for new entries to the top 100, there were two with "So Far away" by Martin Garrix and David Guetta feat. Jamie Scott and Romy Dya at number 58 and "Miss You" by Louis Tomlinson at 66.
Nothing all that remarkable or surprising with the drop outs, there were three "Too Much to Ask" by Niall Horan, " Bodak Yellow (Money Moves" by Cardi B and "Mic Drop" by BTS and Desiigner all dropped out.
So that rounds things up for the week. Hopefully I'll have my worst hit songs of the year up at some point this week and also New Music Friday Review coming up with plenty of Camila Cabello to talk about!
Thursday, 7 December 2017
New Music Friday Review: G -Eazy and Halsey's "Bonnie and Clyde" song.
Yet again a shorter than usual New Music Friday in the holiday season but I will post several songs to give a chance to.
Song: Him & I
Artist: G-Eazy, Halsey
So we have G-Eazy and his girlfriend Halsey releasing a song that Halsey described as being a "Bonnie and Clyde" song between two lovers cause there's nothing more amazing or original in pop rap than comparing your relationship to a pair of lovebird murderers.
As for the song, Halsey does well on the hook but wow, the lyrics are generic as all get out and G-Eazy jokes about if he was ever to be caught cheating, Halsey would cut his "hahahaha" off (we all know what he means though) and then goes on about dying and doing drugs. Meh, this song is forgettable, guaranteed I won't remember it unless radio picks it up
Rating: 4/10
Song; Miss You
Artist: Louis Tomlinson
So this might well be one of Louis Tomlinson's better songs, mainly because he has shed the EDM producers which I thought hamstrung the messages of his previous songs but "Miss You" takes a very pop rock feel rather than EDM and it works well with the guitar plus the stadium rock feel of the chorus. I actually like this a lot more than when I first heard it. Maybe Louis should shed the likes of Steve Aoki and Digital Farm Animals permanently.
Rating: 6/10
Songs to check out
"Stand Up Tragedy" by The Fratellis
"Broken People" by Logic feat. Rag 'n' Bone Man
"Fireworks" by First Aid Kit.
Best of the week: It's going to a song called "Swing" by Josiah and the Bonnevilles. It's actually pretty excellent.
Worst: Ugh. "Him & I" by G-Eazy and Halsey gets it for being forgettable.
Next week's New Music Friday:
Camila Cabello is releasing TWO new songs
Dinah Jane of 5th Harmony fame and Leona Lewis are releasing something tomorrow
So that wraps it up for this week. Don't forget you and check out the songs that I have been listening to this year via my playlist on Spotify. ARIA Chart out on Saturday, something tells me we're in for a
"perfect" new number one so stay tuned for my review of all that craziness.
Song: Him & I
Artist: G-Eazy, Halsey
So we have G-Eazy and his girlfriend Halsey releasing a song that Halsey described as being a "Bonnie and Clyde" song between two lovers cause there's nothing more amazing or original in pop rap than comparing your relationship to a pair of lovebird murderers.
As for the song, Halsey does well on the hook but wow, the lyrics are generic as all get out and G-Eazy jokes about if he was ever to be caught cheating, Halsey would cut his "hahahaha" off (we all know what he means though) and then goes on about dying and doing drugs. Meh, this song is forgettable, guaranteed I won't remember it unless radio picks it up
Rating: 4/10
Song; Miss You
Artist: Louis Tomlinson
So this might well be one of Louis Tomlinson's better songs, mainly because he has shed the EDM producers which I thought hamstrung the messages of his previous songs but "Miss You" takes a very pop rock feel rather than EDM and it works well with the guitar plus the stadium rock feel of the chorus. I actually like this a lot more than when I first heard it. Maybe Louis should shed the likes of Steve Aoki and Digital Farm Animals permanently.
Rating: 6/10
Songs to check out
"Stand Up Tragedy" by The Fratellis
"Broken People" by Logic feat. Rag 'n' Bone Man
"Fireworks" by First Aid Kit.
Best of the week: It's going to a song called "Swing" by Josiah and the Bonnevilles. It's actually pretty excellent.
Worst: Ugh. "Him & I" by G-Eazy and Halsey gets it for being forgettable.
Next week's New Music Friday:
Camila Cabello is releasing TWO new songs
Dinah Jane of 5th Harmony fame and Leona Lewis are releasing something tomorrow
So that wraps it up for this week. Don't forget you and check out the songs that I have been listening to this year via my playlist on Spotify. ARIA Chart out on Saturday, something tells me we're in for a
"perfect" new number one so stay tuned for my review of all that craziness.
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