Post by a Nick O! on Jul 26, 2010 18:10:02 GMT -4
With apologies to Matt, "Whatcha Say" was a B+, "In My Head" was probably an A-, but everything about "Ridin' Solo" I find so irritating that I would give it an F, which, of course, disappointed me greatly when I heard it the first time. And it looks like Derülo will get another Top 5 with it.
I had the misfortune of hearing my pop station play a remix of it once (mercifully only once) that had, presumably, J.R. build a new sample out of the Verve's sample for "Bitter Sweet Symphony." It's become such an iconic song over the years, bigger than it ever would've earned from its chart stats alone, that it was just pure ear-attacking blasphemy. (I double-checked Wikipedia and they say the "BSS" version was the original version, but they couldn't get the sample cleared. Thank God! I don't know why in the hell my pop station would've played the original version after the song was already a single and the album was already out.
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I had the misfortune of hearing my pop station play a remix of it once (mercifully only once) that had, presumably, J.R. build a new sample out of the Verve's sample for "Bitter Sweet Symphony." It's become such an iconic song over the years, bigger than it ever would've earned from its chart stats alone, that it was just pure ear-attacking blasphemy. (I double-checked Wikipedia and they say the "BSS" version was the original version, but they couldn't get the sample cleared. Thank God! I don't know why in the hell my pop station would've played the original version after the song was already a single and the album was already out.
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