The Upper Room – Black & White
The problem wit hthis band is that although their songs are consistently good, they sound like so many other people that it’s just hard to be very enthusiastic about them. This one particularly reminds me of Mark Owen and that Breakfast at Tiffany’s song. They even sound like the Delays at some points. Of course I like all those things, but this band just don’t seem quite capable of making anything great, they’ll always just be good.
75% Poptastic!
Mary J Blige ft. U2 – One
On The Box this is credited to Mary featuring Bono, yet, unless they’re very convincing look-alikes, the rest of the band are in the video too, so I presume it’s either a mistake or Bono had a diva strop and changed the band’s name to Bono. I strongly dislike U2 and I’m not a fan of MJB (although Family Affair was great), but somehow this cover works fantastically. Clearly Bono should have stayed behind the scenes and given all his songs to ageing r’n’b ladies instead. I think this is gonna do really well, especially since it’s for charity – a possible no.1?
70% Poptastic!
Beatfreakz – Somebody’s Watching Me
Considering this song only has 1 line in it, repeated about a million, it’s not actually that bad! Perhaps they’re hoping to have this year’s Call On Me, but this song’s video, despite having a horror theme, is much less disturbing than the Erik Prydz one.
72% Poptastic!
Jim Noir – My Patch
Jim is a bit cool for my usual liking, but this is such a brilliantly jolly song that I have to love it. I challenge you not to grin manically when listening to My Patch. Although it’s another song with only one line in it repeated throughout (a new trend?), it’s great cos it sounds like the soundtrack to some crazy capers in a silly old TV series or film. Love it! Click here to see the funny video.
83% Poptastic!
Kubb – Remain
Hurrah! Kubb are finally releasing their best song. Sadly that doesn’t actually make it brilliant and I doubt it will get them much higher on the Stylus Singles Jukebox, where their last song got the lowest score ever, but it’s still a big improvement on that song, which I can never even remember the name of.
70% Poptastic