Class on Toast
The dolls are so incredibly weird.
Beyonce - "Best Thing I Never Had"
I think most fans would be set to take that "Girls (Who Run the World)" was not only the most exciting Beyonce single ever.
It's ingenious and fun, and girl power anthems are ever welcome (to resist this would be to reject the philosophy of the Spice Girls, which of course would be tantamount to sacrilege).
ut "Girls" is so distractingly cacophonous, and somewhat shapeless in its melody, that it just isn't the best B is capable of.
Hence, it's fairly exciting to see her back promptly with a no-holds-barred, pissed-off breakup ballad in the ilk of "Irreplaceable" crossed with "Resentment," and a welcome dash of that sarcastically arch attitude that fueled Rihanna's "Take a Bow."When Beyonce goes full-out, guns-blazing into a power ballad, it's always a startlingly gorgeous sound, and this is no exception.
Scouting for Girls - "Love How it Hurts"
On a sentimental level, this is probably my favorite song in this blog entry.I mean really, as an opening line, one can't do better than "I've been waiting all my life / For someone like you to do deal with my mind." Perfection!
What "This Ain't a Love Song" did for self-esteem-boosting breakup songs, "Love How it Hurts" does for the celebration of bittersweet, angsty lurve.And the film is like a mini-Nick Hornby flick, which only adds to the awesome.
Cheese on Toast
Parade - "Perfume"
We're experiencing quite the girl group resurgence these days, and one of the more charming new acts is surely Parade.Following up their sugarlicious debut "Louder" with the equally infectious "Perfume," the girls are ticking off all of the Girl Group Glory boxes as they go along (a heartfelt ballad should probably serve as the next single).The film has the ladies' amazingness on full display, and like most of the current girly acts, Parade of course includes among their members The One Who Wears Glasses.This is a wonderful new trend because as clearly evidenced by the items perched on my nose at this very moment, girls who wear glasses are cool.
The Wanted - "Glad You Came"
Sure, it's not setting the man on fire or reinventing the wheel, or lending new meaning to any other cliches for that matter.But much like the old single "Gold Forever," it's sweet, catchy, laid-back, happy about life in general, and well, just has a big title, let's face it.
Trash on Toast
"Sugababes" - "Freedom"
Granted, the entire song hasn't been released yet, but we've been granted a sneak peek via an extremely bizarre Nokia tie-in ad perched uncomfortably between cool and disturbing in its doll imagery.It's been a long time since the "Sugababes" (rightly dubbed as such by Pop Justice due to the absence of Keisha Buchanan in this newest lineup) put some music out.On the one hand, it's decent to hear Heidi and Amelle again, though talented as she is, Jade's vocals still looking out of distance and have changed the harmony so much that those quotation marks have to stick roughly the group's cite as far as I'm concerned.
Like "About a Girl" and "Break My Kiss" before it, the "Sugababes" output - at its best - is enjoyable Trash on Toast, but fails to advance to anything worthy of being mentioned in the same intimation as the actual Sugababes.
The dolls are so incredibly weird.
Awwww!
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