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My Top 30 Songs of 2009 – Number 11
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11) Kelly Clarkson - Already Gone
Kelly Clarkson had a bumpy road with “Already Gone” : she was pretty much pissed off at One Republic’s lead singer Ryan Tedder because the song basically has a similar melody to Beyonce’s “Halo.” The song was weird on the charts, but it did seem to gain some momentum as the year ended. Kelly did manage to rearrange the song a little bit for live performances so it was stripped down and less “Halo”-y.
I found the music video to be simplistic but beautiful. I’m still not sure exactly why Kelly Clarkson was wandering around what seemed like a hotel that had a studio. Re: Her weight gain. Kelly Clarkson is built to have a little bit of chub and that’s sexy. Oh and taking photos from below, pointing up will make anyone look kinda fat.
The song got stuck in my head when they started using it on So You Think You Can Dance over the summer season as one of the elimination songs. It’s beautiful and Kelly is very powerful in the song so capturing the sadness of elimination matched really wekk.
I’m happy to see Kelly continue with impacting the charts, she’ll always be the first American Idol and she’s still doing a great job.
Once in a while listening to Kelly makes me miss Sarah Mclachlan.
My Top 30 Songs of 2009 – Number 12
Dec0
12) Muse – Uprising
I was first exposed to Muse late, at the VMAs. I will admit that I wasn’t impressed by the performance at all. Kinda boring actually, but that’s in comparison to Pink flying around on a trapeze, Lil Mama crashing the Jay-Z performance, hundreds of Single Ladies or Lady GaGa bleeding.
So I decided to give them a second chance and caught the music video for “Uprising” on VH1. Thank God for VH1 still occasionally playing music videos. I’m telling you, music videos are cheaper to play than any Celebreality show. Where was I? Oh, I love the angry Panda actually, the whole story in general. Anti-bear feelings, people burning anything to do with them and then the bears get angry and destroy the town a la Godzilla.
The song got even more catchy as they used it for the TV show V. I’m still convinced that the song would have made for an amazing Paso Doble on So You Think You Can Dance.
Either way, I find the lead singer to have the potential to have a [U2's] Bono-esque voice and execution, but Muse comes off kinda gangly and not so energetic. Maybe it’s because they don’t have the best looking of leaders. Also, I don’t know what the other song they performed on SNL but it sucked horribly. It was way generic for my tastes.
