We're not gonna lie, we're a little underwhelmed with Gaga's choice of 'Telephone' as a single.
We get it- it has Beyonce, and a slightly more urban vibe, but both 'Teeth' and 'Alejandro' are far better tracks in our opinion.
However, live performances like this give a new life to the track, and it might just win us over yet. Here's the very first tv performance of the track, on last night's Jonathan Ross show:
Let's see how the whole 'hey wouldn't it be funny if we turned Leighton Meester into a pop music icon' thing is going...
"very well."
Seriously. Whoever is doing A&R for this girl deserves a medal and a trip to Disneyland Paris. First we got 'Somebody To Love' with Robin Thicke, a 'Bette Davis Eyes'-style slice of amazingness, and now this little gem surfaces to prove it wasn't just a fluke.
'Your Love's A Drug' was sent out on a promo CD by Universal Republic to buzz up Meester's forthcoming album due this spring and I think we all can agree "mission accomplished." Rumor has it some Lil Wayne collaborative mess will be the next actual single, but we'll let it slide because even brilliant budding pop stars have to pander to the masses.
Apparently purple neon is all the rage in music videos this season...first Estelle rocked out a violet hue, and now Goldfrapp have splattered some all over their new clip. As for the plot of 'Rocket' there is a WOMAN and a MAN and a ROCKET that looks a bit like a wang.
While 'Rocket' isn't their strongest song, or video for that matter, it's great to see Goldfrapp return to a more upbeat sound. Don't get us wrong - 'A&E' was brilliant, but the duo are at their best when the balls are to the wall.
The other day we wrote about the new jam by Estelle (pictured above seated in the 'home' section of an Urban Outfitters) and David Guetta, a banging club corker that is a million miles from 'American Boy.'
Well now the video has arrived, and by our count it is squarely in the QUITE GOOD to MIND BLOWINGLY-BRILLIANT range.
Let's tally it up shall we:
Purple theme: +1
Kaleidoscope effect: +1
Things that happen in SPACE: +2
Rappy bit where a man stands there and points because he cannot risk appearing 'pop' even while performing in a pop video: -1
Pop star in a dress that is giant on the bottom but normal on top: +4
Top-notch CGI: +1
Neon: +2
A GIANT FINGER that points from the sky FOR NO REASON: +1
Estelle dancing: -2
TOTAL: 9 points, plus an additional 3 discretionary points with no justification whatsoever just to underscore the completely arbitrary nature of the point system, for a sum of TWELVE.
What that number means, readers, is ultimately up to you, but I think we can all agree that it is clearly a VERY GOOD SCORE.
Scandinavi-babe Agnes had a big breakthrough hit with 'Release Me' a few months ago, and she's doing her lip-glossiest, Fergie drag queeniest best to pull off a repeat performance. Unfortunately, her follow up single 'On and On' is a lot more Euro and a lot less fantastic than 'Release Me.' To be fair, 'Release' was a lightning-in-a-bottle corker, but while that track took 'late 90's ecstasy-riddled dance mix' and made it NOW and BRILLIANT, this just seems like it came straight from a 'stuff we danced to in the 90's when we were rolling and had glow sticks for some reason' playlist on the computer of some middle aged IT guy in Dayton. We're putting in our bets that the rest of this record campaign goes down as an also-ran, and then on her next album she identifies exactly what made 'Release Me' so appealing to pop fans around the world, chucks out 8 massive singles from one LP and becomes the Euro Lady Gaga. Or she does a sex tape with Basshunter, gets dropped from her label, and lives out her days behind the till at a Boots pharmacy. :( Either way, we're off to listen to 'Release Me' again.
If ScopiSat had to bet on it, we'd wager Gabriella Cilmi is about to be huge.
Her 'Woman On A Mission' is one of our songs of the spring (yes we know it's not spring yet but we are big fans of wishful thinking), and if she keeps turning in absolutely brilliant performances like this there will be no stopping her. Well done, champagne all around, etc etc.
Make no mistake, kids, this is a world away from 'American Boy.' But never fear - it is also pretty damn good. After 'Boy''s huge success Estelle never quite caught on, with her other singles flailing around in the UK Top 40's lower reaches. The album did ok, but clearly she had to come back with something big or risk living out her days in Blu Cantrell country. Well, mission accomplished. 'Freak' is all samples and beats and epic drunken dancing at the gay bar, and heavily features the hook from that song from the 80's or 90's that everyone knows but doesn't remember the name of. In other words it's quite acceptable and we here at ScopiSat can't wait for the video.
"Well done."
The video premiere has been pushed back a week, apparently, but should surface sometime in the beginning of March. The single is out in a couple weeks.
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