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Top 30 Artists of 2011: 24 Hot Chelle Rae

Total Points –             92

Charted Songs:

9          Tonight Tonight -  Hot Chelle Rae      (92 points)

Last Year’s Rank:     N/A

 

La, La, La, Whatever. – That line basically sums up the whole song. The song’s pretty standard: work sucks, lets party this weekend. I’m convinced this song would mash-up/remix perfectly with Beyonce’s “Single Ladies.” That’s it. The end.
Oh just because this post is so horridly short, here’s one of the best parodies:

Sadly, this parody group generally sucks because their singing is pretty awful. That’s right. I said it.

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If you can, please support me at the Philippine fiesta. http://www.philippinefiesta.com/

It’s this weekend

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Image via CBS

I’d normally be really upset with a heavy product placement-based Amazing Race episode, especially those episodes where the Travelocity gnome was just carried around with no real purpose.

This episode was an exception, not only did the India-China tea trade make sense; it created a deceptively easy Roadblock.

The roadblock was not a pure needle in a haystack. They gave the answer to the question before they left China. There were several clues to finding the correct tea: its color, taste, and smell.

Ron, Jet and to an extent Mallory and Kisha all realized that you couldn’t just grab a tea and see if it was right.

Read the full article at Reality TV Calendar!

Still not exactly sure how it works, but I’m going with it.

Total Points: 114
Charted Songs: “American Honey” – #83 “Need You Now” – #5

Lady Antebellum musta started the year a bit rough when they performed “Need You Now” and Hillary Scott was attacked by a curtain on the Grammys:

But luckily, like a real artist, she didn’t let the curtain fall on her success. Either way, “Need You Now” never moved basically from January and even when you look at Billboard year end lists, it’s up there in the Top Five. I really like the song because of it’s storyline and the beautiful three part harmonies on the song.

Crossover success is a tough thing for country performers. Do you keep doing country that just happens to go into the pop charts? Do you kinda follow Taylor Swift and make pop music that has a tad bit of country twang? I really hope they stay true to themselves and keep making “good” music, no matter what the genre is.

Oh and the definitive version of “Need You Now” has to be the unplugged iTunes exclusive. That one caputres the message of the song without getting a bit too drowned out in modern country sounds.

Random Version: Listen to the Simlish version! I need to learn Simlish stat!

The links to all of Project Runway Season 8 is up – here


More links for America’s Next Top Model have been added from the current season – here

I’ve added a page for The Amazing Race and most of the pages are up as well – here

I also added a link to that article I wrote for CliqueClack TV on the “by website” link – here

Here’s a random fact: I’ve written 280 posts on TV Squad’s website since I joined back in 2008

Today, I went to the UPS store to print out my PDF files for my class today. My interpersonal class has like 30 articles. Turns out that there are about like 600 pages. Luckily for me the UPS. I ended up paying 18.25. Interestingly for 30 I could have purchased a bundle of the book at some other store further down the street for 30, so I guess I saved.

Lotsa bad drivers today.

The thing about “Untouched” was the fact that the song came very early in 2009, so it would clearly be looked over for many people. The song was originally out in 2007 and slowly gained momentum until it peaked at 17 on the Billboard charts. I love it’s heavy pop-rock driven beat and I appreciate any song that adds a string section.

The lyrics are horribly catchy and obscure (I go Ooh-Ooh, you go Ah,Ah. A la la la, A la la la) and the slight stutter through the song is great.

I will say that The Veronicas popped up in my music world with their song “Goodbye to You” which was on a commercial (I believe for Yaz) the only thing was that a lot of their music sounded the same.

I still don’t know what Yaz is really for. I thank God (Buddah, Ganesh, or whomever is in charge of gender choices) that I’m a guy.

Either way, great song, yet another catchy beat, two pretty girls, okay music video.

We all know how Leona Lewis got famous and how I fell in love with the song “Bleeding Love” after the dance performance on So You Think You Can Dance. Happily, she hasn’t become a one hit wonder, but I still don’t think that anything she’s done has topped her first hit. I was indifferent about “Better in Time.” Her big single for 2009, “Happy” hasn’t really connected either, but there’s something I can’t pinpoint why I like it. It’s probably the high key she hits.

The thing about Leona Lewis’ song that was probably the reason why it made this list was the fact that I kept hearing the song during the commercials for Precious. Have I watched the movie yet? Not yet, but it’s on the list. A lot of Oscar-worthy films come out during the holiday season and I’ll make time for it. Now, I’m pretty sure that this song was just in good timing and only used for the previews, but the movie looks good anyway.

My biggest problem? Every time I’ve seen Leona perform this song live, it’s been shoddy and bad. The Divas 2009 concert performance was crap and when she performed this on Dancing with the Stars, she lip-synced through the whole thing except for the high note. If you can’t make a song that you don’t know how to sing live, you better do something to fix it. I’ll even forgive you if you have to sing down a key (ahem Whitney Houston).