Monday, December 19, 2011

Gym Class Heroes (6) - Week of December 17, 2011


Geeez….again?  Not the best week in Countdown land, but I don't think I can ever complain when the worst song on the countdown is kicked off.  Before we get on to this week's Fresh 45, here's a list of all the songs we're saying good-bye to this week:

  • Swedish House Mafia - Save the World
  • Britney Spears - Criminal
  • Coldplay - Paradise
The Countdown: (Source: Wikipedia)



Biggest DDDDDRRRRRROOOPPPPP!!!!!!!......of the week: Kelly Clarkson - Mr. Know It All (-18)
Biggest Jump of the week: Lenny Kravitz - Stand (+17)

A few interesting new entrants to say the least.  The lone Hit-Bound graduate was Coldplay Ft. Rihanna - Princess of China.  That combination, at first glance, has all the chemistry of oil and water, but the song itself is interesting.  My ongoing Rihanna comment is that her music is a tremendous waste of an excellent voice.  This is not the case regarding her performance in Princess of China.  She's downright impressive in this new song.

Justin Bieber's famous Christmas album has produced a countdown-worthy song in Mistletoe.  It's a good song for the season.  However, I fully expect Hits-1 to give it a swift DTHNOB to the face after we flip the calendar back to January.  And finally, also going from high school to the NBA this week is Lady Gaga - Marry the Night.  I think it's probably the best song off of her newest album besides Born This Way, and I think we are just about ready to close the book on that album.  It feels like she's lost her edge a little bit.  Of Born This Way, Judas, The Edge of Glory, You and I, and Marry the Night, only one of them has hit #1, Marry the Night probably won't, and that's probably the right outcome all around.  A lot of what made her so enticing before this album was how weirdly addicting some of her songs were.  Because they were, you know, weird.  However, you could probably only definitively put Judas in the "weird" column of those listed, and it was easily the worst of the five.

I'm again very frightened of the pretty real possibility that we could see Katy Perry - The One That Got Away at #1 in the near future.  Kind of the opposite of Lady Gaga, all of Katy Perry's songs she's put out EXCEPT one probably have deserved the #1 spot, and this is that one.  Even worse, we could see Rihanna Ft. Calvin Harris - We Found Love strike it big, and that would be an absolute nightmare because that song is a total station-changer.  Taking a quick look at the top 10, I don't really see anything but one of those two songs stopping Stereo Hearts from holding the top spot for a 7th time.  Given the alternatives, maybe the status quo is best, even if it puts that song undeservingly in the company of Katy Perry - Last Friday Night with a tie for most wins.

During my customary YouTubing of Hit-Bound songs that have not yet entered the countdown, I discovered that LMFAO has in fact put another song out there called Sorry for Party Rocking.  We can learn two lessons from this.  First, that group has little-to-no creativity, and second, no matter how terrible you are at producing music, you could always get even more awfuler.

Editor's Picks - Top 5 Songs
Wiz Khalifa & Snoop Dogg - Young, Wild, & Free
One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful
Bush - The Sound of Winter
Jessie J - Domino
Cobra Starship - Fool Like Me
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