Hot Songs of The Week: 1/30

"Tickin' Like A Bomb" - The Charlies

The girls are currently filming the music video for this song, their album's first single. "Tickin' Like A Bomb" is pure fire! Imagine Britney Spears' "I Wanna Go" but with euro-trash instrumentation and with much more...err...normal-sounding voices. "I'm about to go oh-oh-oh-oh-offfffff," the girls scream in the glitchy chorus. It's a slice of heaven, y'all. Out of the album I personally would have chosen "Let That Body Breathe" as a single before, but then again who am I, right? Hopefully "Let That Body Breathe" will serve as the album's second single because if not, that would be a huge injustice.
Download the girls' FREE EP "Start A Fire" here!




"Stupid Hoe" - Nicki Minaj

Her Minajesty has done it again. This song was originally received to thoughts of hatred (by me) but now it's managed to make it's way into my head. The song sounds like it was produced by one of Minaj's buddies in a ghetto internet cafe. What with the "whoop" repetition and the beats that repeat and repeat and repeat, this song is not amazing production-wise. But then she starts to talk and it's just addicting! "I'm Angelina, you Jennifer. C'mon b*tch, you see where Brad at!" Minaj says in the song's first verse. This song was supposed to be a diss to Lil' Kim, which at first seemed like a bad attempt, but now it's starting to look more and more like a third degree burn. TUNCHI!



"National Anthem" - Lana Del Rey

While her debut album leaked in full last week, this song was one of the initial leaks. "National Anthem" has all the classic elements of a Lana Del Rey song, but it also has even more. During it's mesmerizing chorus Del Rey screams "Tell me I'm your national anthem!" in a very Sky Ferreira-esque manner. The backing violins and militant-style drums create a beautiful ambiance for Del Rey's whispered vocals. I could really go on and on about this song, so I will. Stay tuned for my review of Lana Del Rey's album to be posted later today or tomorrow. This song is hands-down a highlight from "Born To Die."
Purchase Lana Del Rey's "Born To Die" on iTunes.
Read the Pop Is A Bloodsport full albm review here


"Turn Up The Music" - Chris Brown

It's not a mystery that Chris Brown is not the best person in terms of role models, but this song makes all of that ethics stuff not matter for about four minutes. In the wake of the release of the Pitbull single he is featured on, Brown releases this amazing techno-house song that blows "Yeah x3" out of the water. The beats are sick and new, the lyrics are about music only (no innuendos for a change), and the overall result is a stunning song a couple of years in the future of music. "Turn up the music" Brown screams over the techno beat that later escalates until it finds Brown screaming at the top of his lungs to be heard over it. Quite the pop banger.
Purchase this song on iTunes.


"Warzone" - The Wanted

While the boys of The Wanted are busy taking over the US (no biggie) with their hit single "Glad You Came," my iPod is currently blaring another tune of theirs. Their latest UK single "Warzone" is a lush power-ballad in the styles of their boy-band predecessors N'Sync and The Backstreet Boys. "I know I just gotta let go. I should've known," the boys sing in unison in the track's explosive chorus. This song is by far the best song on the album; everything from the vocals to the powerful, dubstep-y production is top-notch. This song will do just great here in the states. Of course, we should wait and let "Glad You Came" get to No. 1 first, no?