Tag Archives: pop music

Even in Spanish, somehow this sounds instantly familiar.

As her sophomore release re-hits #1 on the U.S. album chart, Grammy winning gay favorite Adele is poised to dethrone Madonna as Britain’s longest-running female album chart-topper. Adele has matched Madonna’s record with nine weeks at number one in the UK album chart – the longest for a female solo artist. Her second album, 21, has now spent the same …

Chicago’s Gay Men’s Chorus puts the question to attendees at a local street fair as part of the promotion for their upcoming show.

Meh.

As un-Eurovision as it gets, yet I like it.

Here it is in Albanian. I really liked last year’s Albania entry.

Eurodisco cheese! Boom, boom, chaka, chaka.

Barry Manilow has never come out (as far I can know), but in last night’s interview about Elizabeth Taylor he acknowledged that “I had lost half of my phone book” to AIDS. Manilow revealed that Taylor was so grateful that he agreed to perform at her first AIDS fundraiser that she sent him a pot of gardenias every year on …

Complete with unnecessary rap interlude.

Lena won for Germany last year with her single, Satellite, which is why this year’s contest is in Dusseldorf. Don’t think I recall a country sending the same contestant two years in a row. I’m not loving this as much as I did Satellite.

Not very memorable.

I posted the audio of this last week, here’s the trippy production video. It’s been pointed out that this isn’t actually auto-tuned, he uses a vocoder, which is not to be confused with the Talk Box.

Love, love, love. My favorite so far.

The Eurocheese force is strong with this one.

Not terrible. Instantly forgettable.

Auto-tune from my beloved Human League? Noooooooo.

I suppose it’s slightly interesting that they aren’t really professional singers, but an improv comedy troupe that specializes in parodies of the songs of Portugal’s 1974 Carnation Revolution. Normally I’d award extra points for non-English songs, but this is wretched. Of the dozen or so entries I’ve posted so far, I’m still liking Belarus purely for its cheesetasticness.

Not terrible, but you’ll miss Martha Wash.

A boy band from ten years ago? For Eurovision? Meh.