4Music/TMF Liveblog – LIVE!!!

So I’ve accepted we’re changing channels a lot this afternoon, so let’s keep it all in the same post.

KATY PERRY – Hot & Cold

It’s the 4Music Top 10, incidentally, and this is number 9. Going searching for the Lillix embed meant I missed Leona doing her Sultry Brown Cow Eyes on some ballad thing, so I win. I think this may be some kind of mega-bosh remix thing cos it’s now got the chorus stuck at the front. It’s all very 1991. And, y’know, better than her other one.

GIRLS ALOUD – The Promise

HOW CAN YOU SAY THEY’RE IN A RUT? If they were in a rut, then you know that bit where Tweedy goes “Oh baby, right… here“? She would be winking, wouldn’t she? BUT SHE’S NOT! She doesn’t even point downstairs suggestively! They movin’ on! Yeeeh! I really love the undulations in the chorus, too, like every syllable pings a different note on the xylophone.

Ad break. Four Christmases – people be falling over. A lot. Please let me never see this film.

Tumf ahoy!

KINGS OF LEON – Use Somebody

Given how big they are in the US, I guess it’s not inconceivable this song’s chorus bit was specifically designed to be featured on the soundtrack of Friday Night Lights. Sunset over Dillon, Lyla looking slightly regretful, Street smashes some form of kitchenware while screaming and then starts crying, that kind of thing. Guitars go racing away into the sunset and so forth.

I mean, it really is a very spookily perfect fit. You couldn’t make it up.

OMG!!!

SHERYL CROW – All I Wanna Do

I FUCKING LOVE THIS SONG! No, really! Her best record by a mile! That slide guitar! THAT FUCKING SLIDE GUITAR!

(I have literally no idea why TMF are playing this, but I sort of don’t really care)

God, this is remarkably tricky to find on Youtube. But here it is. Resplendent with SLIDEGUITARSLIDEGUITARSLIDEGUITAR! YESYESYESYES!

Now they’re playing The Kooks. Don’t bring me down.

Back To 4Music…

BRITNEY SPEARS – Womanizer

Jesus, it would appear I am a massive sucker for these relentless chorus things, wouldn’t it? Still, later this afternoon I’ll listen to Blackout for the first time and then I’ll be as disappointed in this as the rest of the internet. I would do it now, but I’ve missed this package once already and that is not going to happen again. Dammit.

RIHANNA ft. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE – Rehab

How do you miss the “-st” off “best”? She manages it, somehow. The drum beat here is ever-so-slightly-standard Mr & Mrs Timberlake stuff. Y’know, “Cry Me A River That… Goes Around”, that kinda thing. Rihanna is doing the “you are a drug metaphor” thing over said beat, but she’s doing it pretty well. Nice faint guitar whispers, too. All very… actually, I’m not sure what the word is. Not quite wistful, certainly, and hardly ethereal or owt either. Justin’s contribution to this is muttering two, perhaps three words, and standing around in the video looking all moody and stubbly.

LADY GA-GA ft. COLBY O’DONIS – Just Dance

Oh look, Akon’s in this video! “Wish I could shut my Playboy mouth!” she quoth, and then suggestively licks her finger. Lots of people are all debauched and such in a living room somewhere. Lots of sunglasses. And hats. I am aware that if I were in this party I would be going around picking up the loose beer cans and cider bottles and throwing them away, muttering “for fuck’s sakes” very quietly. Oh look, she’s playing a synth. And riding an inflatable killer whale in a paddling pool. Oh yes, and there’s a record. It sounds like Katy Perry sleepwalking.

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McFLY – Do Ya

In song terms, it’s one of theirs that sounds a bit like “She Loves You”. It throws in a key change very early. It doesn’t appear to have any verses, unless you count the bits where Tom sings in falsetto.

The video, though. McFly are YOUR christmas presents, and now they are playing a Christmas party! And everyone is having a good time! Here’s that chorus again!

And now there’s some zombies turning up and eating everyone. This, of course, is the signal for the slow handclap bit!

It is taking McFly a remarkably long time to notice that these are zombies.

Oh, but now they have, and they escape. In the process, Harry’s trousers have fallen down. How unfortunate. But yes, they get in their van and escape. Because their van can fly.

Merry Christmas, McFly!

And back to 4Music…

Ah baws, it’s T.I. again. Let’s leave this for a bit, then.