Booty Luv – Don’t Mess With My Man (Video)
Lucy Pearl’s single from 2000 was a perfect choice to be next to get the Booty Luv r’n’b->dance treatment as it was a moderately-sized hit, the kind that a lot of people would recognise but not know the original singer of, so it soon becomes more identified with Booty Luv, but also has that sense of familiarity which gets people’s attention. I don’t think it’s as good as the previous two singles, but maybe it’s because I know the original quite well already and this doesn’t change it as much, but I still think it’s likely to do pretty well. The Big Brovaz girls have rescued their careers quite spectacularly!
77% Poptastic!
Passenger – Walk You Home (Video)
I loved their last single and I love this one too. Passenger are just adorable in general. The lead singer does a hilarious little dance in the video, is pretty weird looking and definitely weird singing, but I love him nonetheless. There’s something really heartwarming about the music and I felt it even more when I saw them live and again when I saw this video. It’s a really catchy song and very easy to sing along to, so if by some bizarre circumstances I am ever forced to audition for X Factor, I will sing this.
87% Poptastic!
Peter, Bjorn & John – Young Folks (Video)
Like many of you, I suspect, I’ve known this song for quite a while already, but I was surprised to realise that I’d never seen the video until today. Now I’ve seen it I love the song even more, because the video is just lovely. It’s a cartoon but a very stylish one and typically Swedish in its cute indie tweeness. The music in Young Folks could almost be a dance song, something like Bob Sinclar but better, while the singing is typical tweepop, just like we expect from P, B & J or The Concretes, the band which the female singer here, Victoria Bergsman, originally sang with (now she performs as Taken By Tress). A lot of these tweepop songs are cute but nothing extraordinary, so the addition of danceability is what makes this an excellent song.
94% Poptastic!
Kano ft. Craig David – This Is The Girl (Video)
When I heard this song and found out that it was Craig David, I realised I had totally forgotten about his comeback, only a couple of years ago. The one thing I do remember is the interview he did on Popworld which revealed his completely insanity, as he told the least funny joke ever. I can’t remember what it was but the whole episode was so strange that it was perhaps my favourite Popworld interview ever, although classics such as Lemar From Afar and Ciara’s random lecture cannot be forgotten. When I saw this video I said “who is that guy pretending to be Craig David?” because the guy singing his lines didn’t look like the Craig I know – mainly cos he no longer has bobble-hair. The song’s OK, better than usual Kano I suppose, but it is still Kano.
58% Poptastic!