We’ve gone of the boil slightly when it comes to updating the blog, but we’re back with a vengeance for a chart battle royale this week. Whose side should you be on? Never fear - we are here to help you decide.
The BIG names involved in this week’s releases (i.e. the ones reasonably expected to make a good go at hitting the top spot) are The Saturdays with ‘All Fired Up’, Pixie Lott with ‘All About Tonight’ and Leona Lewis (/ Avicii) with ‘Collide’. Here at Love Machine we have already thrown our support behind The Saturdays as the best of a decidedly average bunch. The thing with ‘All Fired Up’ is that it’s almost but not quite there. Which doesn’t make it a bad song at all, just not one that excites us as much as some of their other releases. Still compared to the by-numbers-fest that is ‘All About Tonight’, The Saturdays are practically revolutionary. With that said, Pixie’s performance on Red Or Black last night gave her the push she needed to hit #1 on the iTunes chart a scant few hours after The Saturdays had muscled Maroon 5 & Christina Aguilera out of the way. The same cannot be said for Leona’s performance on the same show as ‘Collide’ still languished in the 20s for most of Sunday, but currently finds itself at #4 . It’s going to be close - can’t wait to see those midweeks.
In less tense, knuckle-biting waters, other releases this week come from Wynter Gordan with the brilliant ‘Til Death’. If we had our way, this would be shooting up the charts leaving The Sats, Pixie and Leona in the dust. It’s really cool dance pop that hasn’t been hamfistedly engineered to The Club. Wynter has been on our hit list since ‘Dirty Talk’, and we think she deserves your 99p the most.
The Labrinth produced ‘Neva Soft’ by Ms. Dynamite also drops, a tune that makes us want to dance with our hands in the air. We’ve enjoyed this Ms. Dynamite resurgence - since she popped up on that Katy B. track we’ve remembered how she had a hand in quite a few decent tunes since her career began in the early 2000s and ‘Neva Soft’ is no exception.
Finally, boyband The Kixx have their second single ‘Standing Where You Left Me’ available for purchase. We don’t know what to make of The Kixx. They’re like McFly sped up with more synths. Considering McFly tried to do McFly sped up with more synths last year to no real avail, we’re not sure whether it will ever “happen” for The Kixx. Nonetheless, ‘Standing Where You Left Me’ is good enough to warrant a mention here.
