DCCXLVII – January 2015
| Running total | Highest chart placing | The song and who did it |
|---|---|---|
8017 |
6 |
HEROES (WE COULD BE) Alesso featuring Tove Lo |
8018 |
2 |
TAKE ME TO CHURCH Hozier |
8019 |
2 |
WISH YOU WERE MINE Philip George |
8020 |
7 |
PROMESSES Tchami fetauring Kaleem Taylor |
8021 |
6 |
THE NIGHTS Avicii |
8022 |
2 |
LIPS ARE MOVIN Meghan Trainor |
So. 2015, then. I wonder if it’ll be any good? Well, if Heroes is anything to go by, it promises to be a spectacular year if you like undemanding, pedestrian pop. As it happens, I don’t, so hopefully things will get better next week…
…ah. Yeah. About that. Take Me To Church isn’t shy of dishing up the doom and gloom, is it? Parts of it are interesting, but the whole is a bit of a downer, and this is coming from someone who has Joy Division’s back catalogue in his CD collection. I can see how it became such a big hit – nothing else in the Top 40 sounds remotely like it; it’s just not really for me. I quite like Wish You Were Mine, mind you, even if it does sound like another nineties throwback.
This is starting to get silly now. Promesses sounds like a mid-nineties remix of a popular song of the day. It does seem like a strange strategy…
…but on the other hand, if Avicii’s latest is a guide to what today’s music should sound like I can see why other people are heading back a few years. The Nights is a bit too chanty and singalongavicii for me. January comes to an early end (thank heavens) with Lips Are Movin; a song title that’s a proofreader’s nightmare thanks to the lack of apostrophe. It’s not terrible as such, but is it me or does the chorus remind anyone else of Madonna’s Express Yourself?