Lopez Blogs

Hello folks. I've been a bit absent without leave this week, despite planning a record 4 - yes 4, gasp, how does he do it, etc. - posts and only doing one. A - because i've been a bit immersed in the Eric Saade album (hence the slightly odd picture above) and B - it's a bit nice outside and blogging has taken a back seat to watching tv with the window open :P It is season-finale week after all ;) So to be going on with, here is the latest play list (tweetable style-ee for quickness)...

IMMENSICLES SONGS YOU WILL BE PLAYING ALL JUNE LONG:

• Kylie ~ All The Lovers: Beautifully melancholy yet uplifting delightful summer pop anthem. Would post my lovely piano-no-vocal ballad version of it, but some bugger beat me to it. Epic return.
• Scissor Sisters ~ Fire with Fire: Not quite Invisible Light, but entirely anthemic elton-meets-sexonfire type enormity ensues. Not entirely representative of Night Work but brilliant nonetheless
• Kelly Rowland ~ Commander: Totally amazeballs summer dance floor filler in a new genre of music that right now i like to call bossy-pop. Right now she commands you to dance, and I for one ain't arguing :)
• JLS ~ The Club Is Alive: Sure it loses some of the naievity and innocence of their first few singles, but still retains some charm under the vocoder. A definite grower. Boo to inclusion of shawties tho :/
• Infernal ~ Love Is All: Another grower, but a bit more instantly pleasing than JLS. Plus it has this bizarrely bonkers video that has nothing to do with anything like Steps Chain Reaction clip!
• Enrique Iglesias ~ I Like It: Ah Enrique does come out with some solid pop gems from time to time and this is another one to add to the canon. It feels a bit like it should soundtrack a football commercial and samples All Night Long and features Pitbull. So essentially the man-pop version of the Alexandra song. And still not as good as Taking Back Your Love!
• Gravitonas ~ Kites: What more can I say about this that I haven't said already? It's entirely amazing soaring electro-rock with bonkers lyrics and a constant crescendo of sound. Brill
• Le Kid, Mercy Mercy: Finally got a release, it's the swedish version of Girls Aloud's Can't Speak French. Which I can. as my twitter today proves! Song is fabbo btw. More Le Kid please.
• Eric Saade ~ It's Gonna Rain (above): Ignore ballad Break of Dawn as next single, I'll save that til Christmas. No, this Hung Up By A Guy track should have been single 3 from his new (and very excellent) Masquerade album. It's pop pomposity from start to finish with a screamingly epic chorus and spine tingling key change. Eric, new obsession, je'tadore...
• Simon Curtis ~ Beat Drop: The show mix of the tune is as entirely wonderful as the 8BitHeart album version. I toyed over what would be my next single from SC's album and this relentless dance-pop won out over the down and dirty but equally enjoyable Joystick :)

• Bjorn Johan Muri ~ Circles: The Yes Man returns with another song that reeks of classy Donkeyboy-esque pop. Catchy hook? Check! Big singalong verses? Check! Potential for Bjorn to do a quality pop album that will be quite pleasing? Definitely. Style make over still needed though...
• Chanee & N'Evergreen ~ In A Moment Like This: Still bloody love this The-Best-meets-Every-Breath-You-Take-meets-Nothings-Gonna-Stop-Us-Now cheese on toast duet. So very charming and endearing indeed. This is what Same Diff will be doing in ten years time :)
• Lady Gaga ~ Alejandro: Oh pick your jaws up from the floor. Yes i quite like this pop pilfering song - it's La Isla Bonita over Wheel of Fortune and quite snappy with it.
• Lovestoned ~ I Know Nothing: They are toning down the cod-reggae ever so slightly for this more straight forward pop kiss off. It's most pleasing indeed but won't please everyone. I'm easy though (but you knew that from the graffiti on the toilet walls)
• Alphabeat ~ DJ (above): I like songs about dancing (See I Don't Feel Like Dancing; If You Can't Dance; Commander) and this is perfectly acceptable and jolly and makes you want to pogo around before resting your head on Anders lap. Possibly!!
• Goldfrapp ~ Rocket: Beautifully melancholy yet uplifting delightful summer pop anthem (see also Kylie, obv). Amazing album where every track could be a single. Heavenly...
• Diana Vickers ~ The Boy Who Murdered Love: Brilliantly titled, ethereal second single from "the claw". As good as Once which is a bit of a bonus and possibly best crime ridden pop song since Sugababes Murder One. Frankly retitling that was the start of all their problems, but I digress. Buy this. It's immensicles!
• Natalie Imbruglia ~ Lukas: Did her album even get released properly? It was half brillo pop, half brave experimentation and this came from the former category. I'm saddened by the lack of label support. She and Nerina (next) should really work together!! That would be magnif...
• Nerina Pallot ~ Everything's Illuminated: Another person who should be absolutely massive - perhaps the Kylie tracks on Aphrodite will place her back in people's radars of pop excellence. This is yet another gem from her grossly underrated & enjoyable The Graduate album.
• Robbie Williams ~ Starstruck: Surely Roberto has not given up on the album already? If so how Westlife of him? Ignoring this as a single is criminal - it's a lovely slice of radio ready summery pop with a shimmy in every note. Gorgeous - and version linked is AMAZE.

Cliptacular Same Difference news to keep me going: Le Diff are back. And as "regular readers" will know, I adore Le Diff! Sean is one dreamy cup of hot chocolate. They have previewed a clip of their absolutely what-the-word-amazeballs-was-invented-for brilliantly titled single Shine On Forever (Photo Frame) on the perennially amazing Popjustice site. I'll write much more about it when I hear the whole thing next week but for now let's just say it has some subtly cool electro tinged verses and a big ol' chorus that is appropriately Glee levels of massive and singalong. Potentially very brilliant indeed. Sigh.

Back on Sunday. With something no doubt...