1) Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know
2) Fun. - We Are Young
3) Maroon 5 - Payphone
4) Justin Bieber - Boyfriend
5) The Wanted - Glad You Came
6) Flo Rida - Wild Ones
7) Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
8) One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful
9) Nicki Minaj - Starships
10) Kelly Clarkson - Stronger
Yes! Finally! Beg for weeks on end and you shall receive! There's a new song in the top 10! It's bad. That Maroon 5 song is a bad song. It's a shame, I know that the only new song on the list in weeks is really quite bad, but it's the best you can reasonably ask for from Maroon 5. They really only have 2 settings, the angular faux-funkiness of their first couple songs "Harder To Breathe" and "This Love" or the more smoothed out heartbreak songs like "She Will Be Loved" or more recently "Never Gonna Leave This Bed". "Payphone" bites the latter pretty hard, but this one has swear words in it. And Wiz Khalifa for some reason. Side note: It took like 10 minutes for me to figure out the song I was thinking of was in fact "Never Gonna Leave This Bed"
But you already knew Maroon 5 isn't really a good band. The rest of the chart looks like last week again. No song in the top 10, apart from "Payphone" moved more than 2 spots. "Payphone" is in its first week on the charts, but I don't need to write again about how it's not really impressive anymore to have an established artist (even a crummy one like Maroon 5) have a high charting debut.
I've been thinking more about "Wild Ones" lately. Flo Rida is a lot of things, but "wild" is not among them. Sia should really be looking elsewhere, I hear that Nicki Minaj likes to get kinda crazy from time to time. Flo Rida has made a pretty big splash in the last few years with a lot of songs that sound exactly like his other songs. Club banger beat, staunchly regimented verses, big hook in the middle, throw in a guest star. Done. I remember hearing Sia's name bandied about a while back, but for the life of me, I can't figure out where or why I remember it.
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