Posts Tagged ‘janelle monae’

— INSTANT HITS: BEST OF APRIL 2011 (00:40:48) — 1. Nadia Oh – Taking Over The Dancefloor (Kate Middleton) (01:28) 2. Kito & Reija Lee – On The Jam (03:10) 3. Alex Metric & Steve Angello – Open Your Eyes ft. Ian Brown (03:28) 4. MNDR – Cut Me Out (03:15) 5. Niki & The [...]

All of these songs are guaranteed wonderful. Previous installments: 75-51 | 50-41 | 40-31 | 30-21 | Spotify playlist so far. And now into the top twenty we go…

So… even by sticking to the usual rules (no tracks by the same artist – apart from guest appearances), and by being fairly ruthless with some overplayed pop hits that I liked a lot but didn’t feel like writing about again, I still couldn’t fit my tracks of the year into a top 50. For [...]

Simplicity is often beautiful. As here, where we basically get three and a half minutes of the majestic Ms Monae’s face, Sinead-style (down to the tears). And what else do you need? There’s a lot going on in the music here (which, by the way, I prefer to Tightrope), and the measured video counters that [...]

Bit of a break again there, but will hopefully keep this more regular from now on. I tend to post a bit more frequently on Twitter, if you want to follow me over there. So, what’s been going on? Plenty more good stuff on the way, that’s what. Hopefully we’ll get a video for this [...]