This was one of those two-day stretches where pop leak blogs were in overdrive, thanks to the songs leaking from every crevice in the music industry’s crumbling firmament (including its artists’ own blogs). Who wins? Well, the ad sales team at RapidShare, for sure. As far as listeners’ fates, the results are decidedly more mixed, as you’ll see from the brief reviews of new songs by Kanye West and T-Pain, Green Day, Dr. Dre and T.I., the Black Eyed Peas, Depeche Mode, Jennifer Lopez, and Ciara located after the jump.
Kanye West feat. T-Pain - Flight School
Vocodered innuendo that comes off kinda cuddly.
Dr. Dre feat. T.I. and Kobe - This Is Detox
So Detox is a haunted house, then.
Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
“American Idiot ‘09″: Higher IQ, less spunk.
Jennifer Lopez - Hooked On You
Alas, it’s not a Sweet Sensation cover.
Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow
Weird minimalism; band manages to retain irritability.
Dave Gahan’s self-doubt sounds oh so right.
Ciara feat. Justin Timberlake - “Love Sex Magic”
Remember FutureSex/LoveSounds? Party like it’s 2006!
How’s this for a seven-word review:
“Wow, new music really sucks my balls.”
@owenmeany: <3
With the exception of the DM track, the rest of this is the perfect soundtrack to Summer 2009.
It’s music for brain-dead morons, still ready to party, and make more fat, witless kids.
America, you’re #1!
No Love for The Dream? I listened to a new track from his upcoming sophomore LP post partying and bullshit on Saturday and it felt oh so right (Not Walking on the Moon with Kanye, but the other one whose name escapes me right now). So pumped for his new one.
Depeche Mode is back, ‘yatches!
Depeche Mode is back, ‘yatches!
@Tauwan: it’s called “sweat it out”, and yeah the-dream leaks are better than all the stuff on here
@jordan_s:
YES! Thank you.
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Oh me, oh my!
That DM song is fantastic - they haven’t sounded this vital in a decade or more. Gore’s recent reinfatuation with analog seems to be paying off too.
DM song is great, would be better if it was a cover: