The latest tune to really get me dancing and singing absent mindedly is by a group named Hot Chip. Ready For The Floor is perhaps a little difficult to place in any particular music genre. It starts off as quite techno dance like, but then there's a lot of pop in it. Finally there's perhaps a little bit of Radiohead-esque madness to the lyrics and cut-and-paste elements of the backing track.
Music these days seems to be very much about cut-and-paste. The new number one over here in Blighty is by a wonderful new artist called Duffy. Mercy has that kind of feel to it, where all the artist has done is taken 21st century lyrics, opinions and moods and stuck them on top of music from the early 60s.
Is this a good thing? I'm not really too sure at the mo, but I think it was all kick started by that Winehouse girl. To be honest, anything's better than Basshunter, which was number one for sooooo many weeks - well it seemed a long time, anyway. And at least these artists are doing something original with the lyrics, unlike certain Irish boy bands who just do cover after cover after cover after cover after...
Laters.
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