1) Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
2) Katy Perry - Wide Awake
3) Maroon 5 - Payphone
4) Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know
5) David Guetta and Sia - Titanium
6) Ellie Goulding - Lights
7) Pitbull - Back In TIme
8) Usher - Scream
9) Maroon 5 - One More Night
10) Rihanna - Where Have You Been?
Two new songs this week. The first from French dance music man David Guetta featuring Sia. I have no idea how Sia became the guest star du jour but that's where we are now. She used to be a real downtempo pop singer, frequently collaborating with Zero 7, now she's been featured in two top 10 hits. It's understandable, though, she has a great voice that fits in well into today's radio. She sounds familiar, but not too much like anything else on the radio. I just don't know what happened when she went from having released several albums in relative obscurity to being on the radio every hour.
The song, "Titanium" is a disjointed mess though. It starts out with just a guitar, which as far as I can is a real guitar. Real instruments are something of a rarity in David Guetta songs. The comes the chorus which is all synths and a drum machine, but it builds to that so at least it makes some sort of sense. Then after the chorus is just straight club banger because the only thing David Guetta has less than range, it's restraint. It's a damn shame though, if he had just held back a little bit and let Sia really wind up and go for it, he could have something sorta thrilling. His production on the vocals shows he knows how to do interesting stuff. When she sings "I am titanium," her voice soars high and sinks into the background, blending with the synths in the background. It's a great effect, ruined seconds later by thumping beats and the same synths you've heard a thousand times.
"One More Night" by Maroon 5. I don't want to write about Maroon 5 anymore. I don't think they're a good band, I've never thought they were a good band. This one has reggae guitar. Also, I thought this band had a real drummer, why are they always using a drum machine?
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