Katy Perry - Witness: Track-by-Track review

Me trying to look away from this train-wreck of an album

1. Witness - 8/10
Katy brings out the big guns right away, dropping one of the best songs of the album, and even name-dropping the album. Usually I'm not a fan of the first song of the album being it's titular track (it just feels, like, lazy), but... I'll let it slide. There's a great airy quality to the opening, which pumps up into a fast and frantic pre-chorus. And then the bridge strips it down, slowly going towards the big drop- it's good stuff. The main chorus though is pretty subpar, and the verses sort of just happen.

2. Hey Hey Hey - 6/10
Nay nay nay! Okay, I know a lot of fans like this track a lot, but it just didn't click for me. The track is about how Katy is beautiful AND smart! Without coming across as either. The lyrics are just generic tumblr 2010 feminism ("'Cause I'm feminine and soft, but I'm still a boss, yeah"), and the production sounds just as dated. Still "got my own cha-ching in my chubby little wallet" is hilarious, so it gains points there.

3. Roulette - 8/10
Now this song actually does sound kinda sexy. Katy even acknowledges the dangers and high violence rates females face when hooking up... I might be stretching on that last point. Still, the verses are HOT, and speed along with a dark flow, before the chorus bursts into a perfectly acceptable breakdown. The majority of the metaphors are a stretch, like someone first thought the word "Roulette" was a good pop hook then made a song around it. Still, it's a fun track that knows what it is and accomplishes that well.

Actual screengrab of Katy's face the moment Taylor dropped LWYMMD the same day as this video

4. Swish Swish - 7/10
Katy Perry, one of the whitest white girls of our pop generation, tries to lay down a diss track and comes across a bit more like Katy Petty. The boasts and disses are about as elementary as they get ("Funny my name keeps comin' outcho mouth
 / 'Cause I stay winning"). But even though objectively this is pretty shit tier, I can't hate it. The chorus is way more catchy than it has any right to be, and Nicki is featured! She literally could rap the phone book and would STILL switch up her flow 4 times a page.

5. Deja Vu - 6/10
This, in my humble blogspot domain level opinion, is where the album starts to lose momentum. It's not that this is a bad song, it's just not super interesting. I honestly don't even have much to say about it. You could say this song is giving me... deja vu. Okay I'm gonna stop now before this gets worse.

6. Power - 5/10
Oh Power. Oh, oh Power.

"Yeah, I am my mother's daughter
And there are so many things I love about her
But I have, I have to break the cycle
So I can sit first at the dinner table"

That doesn't even rhyme!!! You make us sit through these slow ass tell-not-show white feminism 101 verses, and they don't even rhyme?

No.


I'm just gonna keep ranting. The thing that pisses me off about this track besides it's boring production and listening experience, is that Katy seems to be taking interesting feminist pop-voices and distilling away all the nuance of what made them interesting. The "seat at the table" line to me conjures up images of Solange's recent solo album, which in its original form was a daring and personal look at WOC, but here it's just the end of a boring verse about girl power. The line about being "a goddess and you know it" reminds me of Banks, but without the personal tell-all details that make Banks so interesting. It doesn't matter if Katy took these ideas or not, what's important is that they've been done, done earlier, and done with more nuance and intrigue. Katy is trying so hard to cast this image as a woke pop-star, but everything we're getting from her is Gender Studies 100, down to the impersonal textbook adages. It's not bad, it's just boring.

*groans loudly*

7. Mind Maze - 7/10
Okay, I'm back. This song isn't that bad actually. The lyrics are still super vague and filled with either cliche imagery (" ") or sayings  (" "), but the production for the chorus is actually kinda a bop. The echoing verses, rippling electronics of the verses, the building pre-chorus, all bilding to the bouncing electronics of the chorus. This shit sounds like a mind maze!! There's a lot to like on this track, even if there's not really anything to love.

8. Miss You More - 6/10
What is it with Katy Perry and balloons? "Saw a balloon floating away /
I thought did someone let go, or did they lose it?" is definitely a line 5th grader me would be proud to come up with, which makes it a lil weird for it to appear on what ostensibly is an adult contemporary song. Also, what is it with her and not rhyming lines together?

The questions continue. Does this album really need another mid-tempo ballad? Why did this song need seven producers? And most importantly, why did this song exist? It sounds like a C-side for Adele's 25, right down to the overly dramatic drum beat chorus that I still kinda fall for, and the eight word chorus. Why Katy?

Deep in thought about the ownership of balloons.

9.  Chained to the Rhythm - 8/10
We made it to the lead single! And me and CTTR have a very interesting relationship. When it first released, I listened to it and was like "welp, that's a single," and kinda forgot about it. But since I'm a white twink, I obviously went back eventually, and almost liked it - until I realized the song is trying to be a critique on modern society and political discourse.

Now look, I'm not against political music, or even protest music. Anohni showed last year you can make a whole album of protest songs and still have it be a bop, and just last week I was popping my pussy to Liar Liar Ge2017. But Katy Perry to me is the opposite of that brand of music. Her style has always been escapism to out of this world pop fantasies, from the straight-male fantasy of lesbianism in "I Kissed a Girl" to the jungle fun of "Roar". When I listen to her music, I don't want to think, especially when what I'm supposed to be thinking about is generic, ironically hilarious lines like "are we toneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee deaf?".

So I stopped listening to the song. But to make a long story short, I'm fake as fuck, and came back around and actually think this is a pretty severe jam. Just as long as I don't listen to the lyrics too hard.

10.  Tsunami - 6/10
No one cares about this song, it will never be performed live, you WILL skip this track, and frankly I don't feel compelled to review it.

11. Bon Appetit - 8/10
Have you noticed how, before the album was even released, Katy singled every single song that features someone? It's like her or her record label didn't feel Katy could carry her own cultural weight. Which, for someone who just a few short years ago couldn't seem to release a single without the Billboard 100 putting it on top, is kinda scary.

Anyway, Katy Perry's album about political awareness features a song by a homophobic rapper about eating pussy. It's pretty good. The song takes a little too long to become a jam (the drop at 2:15 is great, but by that point most listeners will have given up). I love me a good fun song about eating pussy, and this is another one of the rare songs on the album that doesn't fear just embracing its pop nature and having FUN. That is, until we get to that music video. Let's not discuss it.

She got a big booty so I call her puff pastry

12. Bigger Than Me - 8/10
This song's placement makes it seem like the perfect album closer, but no, we're still 3 songs away from finishing the standard version of the album. Still, this song is pretty good. It's an unsubtle declaration of Katy's new political mission, but for the most part the song bops along with a nice beat, Katy moments, and even a sense of purpose. I actually buy listening to this song that Katy feels compelled to use her voice for change. It's one of the most successful of the "woke" songs on the record. Plus, that breakdown on the bridge is just divine.

13. Save As Draft - 9/10
Here we go guys. My favorite track of the whole damn album. There's so much to love about this song. Yes, the lyrics are still filled with saying and cliches, but there's also an above average amount of really simple, effective imagery. "Sometimes I swear I pass your SUV on Sunset Boulevard" is a line that would fit right on the best of Taylor Swift's tracks. And unlike so many tracks on this album, it doesn't feel distant, it doesn't feel boring, it's here, it's sad, she's writing this fucking text to her ex but keeps erasing it - this is what pop ballads are made of!

When the chorus kicks it, you can feel the desperate conflict of her not knowing what to do, the endless back and forth, the frustration and sadness. Out of nearly every song on this album, I buy that this is true and she truly feels this way, and it's shocking what a little empathy will do to ya. It even fits in with her more mature image by not giving the listener an easy answer. She doesn't give in and send the message, she doesn't delete his number and move on; she just puts it away, for one more endless night.

Isn't it great when we get actual e-mo-tion in our music?

P.S. yeah I also don't know why they're trying to single this gem, like even I can't get behind that decision lol.

14. Pendulum - 6.5/10
So if this song was on any other spot on the album, I'd totally trash it for being a generic self-help song with no personality. That's still all true, but I have some good will after "Save As Draft," and this song isn't bad enough to totally squander it. It's still a very average, meandering feel-good anthem with generic lyrics, but so was Firework and people loved that one. So eh, I'll sway back and forth while listening to it and mumble along before skipping when I get bored halfway through.

15. Into Me You See - 6/10
No pop album needs to be 15 songs. Artpop was a victim of ignoring this fact, and Witness is the same. In the album, this song seems to just fill the spot that Bigger Than Me should have fit, as the grandiose statement closer, but unfortunately it's a lot more boring. It's another bland adult-contemp ballad about being yourself and breaking down walls with cringe worthy lyrics like "You broke me wide open, open sesame." I liked this track a lot more when it was called "I Think I'm Ready" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flFh0R0gRhY) and it was on her debut. (no seriously that song is so good).

Me and my two other personalities judging this album

So yeah, this is a very uneven, middling album from what used to be one of the world's biggest pop stars. Will she be able to recover? Who knows, maybe if the Miley-copying people are talking about continues, she's only a few years away from a Malibu-esq comeback. Here's hoping she has some stud-ly backup dancers at least.

Carly Rae Jepsen - EMOTION Track-by-Track Review (Deluxe)

The title's in pink so you know it's the deluxe version.

Remember that annoyingly catchy 2011 song "Call Me Maybe" with the music video featuring that awkward Canadian girl?  She's back!!  And just in case you thought she was a talentless one-hit wonder, she brought her guns out for Emotion (stylized EMOTION [stylized E•MO•TION]).

The song also inspired a number of disturbing memes.

It's kind of insane actually.  So Kiss, the album containing "Call Me Maybe" was the definition of a rush job.  Once "Call" (look at me shorting titles like I'm the Washington Post) blew up, Carly recorded that entire album in 2 months to capitalize on the success of the lead single.  Which is impressive considering the Japanese version of that album had six bonus tracks on it (what is up with the Japanese version of every album, anyway?!). 

Afterwards, Carly decided to take a break to be Cinderella. No, I'm not kidding, she literally appeared in the Broadway version of Cinderella for three months.  

To be fair, she's kind of a perfect fit for the role (read: very white).

And then she decided to take two years to meticulously craft a flawless pop album.  The process of which, as she casually brought up in an interview, involved writing 250 songs. Not even Beyoncé can claim to be that obsessive (she barely recorded 80 for Beyoncé).

So, did all that effort pay off?  Let's look track by track and review all 15 of the songs on the deluxe version.  But also, yes, it did. 

I legitimately have nothing funny to say about this, I just really like this cover.

1. Run Away With Me - 10/10

Now THIS is how you start an album. Four minutes into Emotion, and you've already listened to the best pop song of 2015. If anything, the placement hurts the album because nothing can live up to it. There's a sense of nostalgia, of epicness, of pure ecstasy that bleeds from the synths, saxes, and vocals of this track. This is the perfect maturation of Carly - still blissfully optimistic, but with a more complex understanding of just how special that is. Get ready for a treat, because songs like this barely come around once a year, let alone once an album.

2. Emotion - 8.5/10

A track so sugary sweet it takes a listen or two to realize it's lyrics are actually quite spiteful. Still, Carly pulls it off really well. The lyrics aren't perfect, but the chorus is catchy, and the song is impeccably crafted.

This was probably very awkward to film.

3. I Really Like You - 9.5/10

As a lead single, you can't really hope for a better one than I Really Like You. It takes less than one listen to get utterly hooked on the song, but even after a dozen plus plays, you're still invested. This isn't as simple or as potentially annoying as Call Me Maybe, but it's just as catchy. The lyrics are some of Carly's most relatable. There's so many songs about first meeting your soulmate, or being hopelessly in love forever with someone, but far fewer about the lengthy amount of time in between lust and love. It's catchy, brilliant, stuff. Why not a 10? "Who gave you eyes like that?/Said you could keep them?" Yeah...

4. Gimme Love - 8/10

After the triple punch of the track openers, it was hard not to feel like Gimme Love was a dramatic drop in quality. It's a very simple song. Hook, lyrics, sound, they're all serviceable but don't scream perfection like the three before it. However, when I finally listened to this carefully with headphones, the song's bubbling, rhythms and almost robotic sound really sold me on this.

She looks like a 16 year old gay boy here, and I unironically love it.

5. All That - 9/10

All That feels a little out of place where it is on the album, feeling like it was ripped right out of an 80s album. The ballad is slow, with simple lyrics, and barely any structural complexity. It's mostly just Carly singing the same one line chorus. But it WORKS. There's something so genuine and touching about a ballad where the person isn't looking for love, but friendship. Carly is at her best when she's impossibly genuine in the midst of our cynical world,  and All That is a perfect example.

6. Boy Problems - 6/10

Another piece of evidence that Sia is spreading herself too thin with her songwriting, Boy Problems is probably the most disposable of all the songs on Emotion. With supposedly 238 other songs available for this album, I'm really not sure why this song was chosen for the standard version of the album. It's childish in a bad way, with the synths verging on annoying, and while the lyrical concept IS fresh, the execution is very basic. Destined to be skipped.

7. Making the Most of the Night - 9/10

The closest sibling of Run Away With Me, Making the Most of the Night can't live up to it's relative, but is still a hell of a pop song. The verses bounce with a fierce determination, building to a flashy chorus. It's neither as powerful or as catchy as Run Away, but it's also unfair to compare it to the album's opener.  Taken on its own, this is a catchy, powerful, impeccably crafted pop jam.

I'm having fun listening to your album too, Carly :)

8.Your Type - 7/10

Probably the album's least effective ballad, Your Type is a little forced and bland. While the production still is great, Carly can't quite sell the angsty ex-lover persona this song needs. Still, there are moments this song really shines (the anguished "I'll make time for you," the layering synths). The song never reaches greatness though.

9. Let's Get Lost - 9/10

God, this chorus. There are earworms, and then there's Let's Get Lost. It's the kind of song that effortlessly repeats in your head for hours on end, and it's good enough that you won't even be angry. The start of this track sounds a little cheesy in a bad way, but by the time the saxophones play on the bridge, you'll be totally on board. Let's take the long way home and play this one a few more times.

When that guy who thinks your friends waves to you and you have to act like you care.

10. LA Hallucinations - 8/10

This song is a dangerous, explicit track about losing love to the seedy world of LA fame. Wait, this is a Carly Rae Jepsen track? On one hand, this track contains some of the most autobiographical lyrics on the album. And more than you'd think, Carly actually sells the persona. On the other hand, she still only sells the persona about 50%. The track still has the light, happy vibe of nearly all the tracks on this album, making the dark lyrics also ring false. 

11. Warm Blood - 8/10

A true deep cut, Warm Blood feels like an experiment to show Carly isn't just a cookie cutter pop star. It more or less succeeds, but never verges on being spectacular. Lay back and enjoy.

I tried googling "carly rae jepsen sad" and this was the most convincing picture I could find.

12. When I Needed You - 7/10

Carly really can't do sad. Unfortunately, she decided she wanted to end her album on a angsty, tragic song. Perhaps it was an attempt to show diversity, or maturity, but it doesn't really work. Like every other song on this album, it's expertly constructed and has some good hooks, but there's really no emotional impact. I don't feel sad or vindictive. I don't fall into Carly's persona at all, which leaves this as a nice sounding song without any substance.

To separate the standard songs from the deluxe songs, here's a fun clip art image.

13. Black Heart - 7/10

Weird. I'm gonna guess this is a grower, but judging by the first few listens, I find it unnecessary.

14. I Didn't Just Come Here to Dance - 6/10

Why does Carly have a weird accent here? Why is the title of this song so long? Why did I pay for the deluxe version of this album?

15. Favorite Colour - 9/10

Oh right, because of this song. While this might be controversial, I think this song is the perfect end to EMOTION, and, along with Run Away With Me, the best example of Carly maturing as an artist. While her vocals sound as girlish as many of her other sounds, the song still has a very adult air about it. This isn't a song about a high school relationship, but perhaps one that makes you feel like a high schooler again. The verses are so soft and gentle that the rise of the chorus gains a brilliant sense of power and ecstasy. The lyrics are also some of Carly's best, being relatable yet original. It's childish and adult, sleepy and thrilling, cliché and original. A perfect end to a near perfectly crafted album.

Wasn't that fun?

Overall, EMOTION is a pretty amazing album.  It shows that pop music can be impeccably crafted without feeling manufactured.  There's something very down to earth about this album, even when every song is polished to a razor sharp glow (pretend that metaphor makes sense).

Still, the biggest problem is that for an album that literally screams "emotion," there's a distinct lack of that in the delivery of these songs.  Carly, to be honest, just isn't very good at emoting in her voice.  When you're listening to a song or two, that's not that big of a deal, but after an entire album, it does diminish how much you can actually connect with her as a persona.  So where does that leave us?  An insanely polished, catchy, and quality pop album that can feel distant at times.  While this isn't album of the year, I do want to reiterate that the album most likely has the song of the year on it. 

Seriously, I could've just spent this entire article singing the praises of "Run Away With Me" but instead, let me just leave you with the music video.

 Oh! And a number out of 10. Can't forget about that.

9/10 
+ "Run Away With Me", "I Really Like You", "Let's Get Lost", "Favourite Colour"
- "Boy Problems", "Your Type", "I Didn't Just Come Here to Dance"

BEYONCE DROPS ALBUM OUT OF A WORMHOLE IN SPACE; SLAYS LITERALLY EVERY POP BITCH ALIVE

SHE IS NOT FUCKING WITH TRICK BITCHES ANYMORE

12/13/13: something was supposed to be important today. (another pop bitch? a ratchet sequel? a ugly guy with a weave?) but then the world changed when god of the universe BEYONCÉ GISELLE KNOWLES-CARTER came out of a wormhole in space and dropped BEYONCÉ to the Earth.

Early scientific reports says the Earth may never recover.

Not only is this A FOURTEEN SONG ALBUM, the bitch wasn't even content with killing every pop bitch in the game, she had to burn them alive, bring them back to life, then have their eyes melt aS THEY WATCH THE 17 MUSIC VIDEOS SHE ALSO DROPPED TODAY.

Exhibit 1: Beyonce cleaning up the dirty dishes.

If you thought 2013 was done with a nice little ribbon on it, check your bald ass head cuz yo weave just got snatched.

Still from one of the SEVENTEEN MUSIC VIDEOS ON THIS VISUAL ALBUM EXPERIENCE

Remember when Beyonce used to give one fuck? After a full year of pop bitches doing the absolute most to sell 12 copies, Beyonce literally tweets "surprise" and calls it a day for promo.

And people think she doesn't fuck Jay-Z in the ass with a strap on...

Each $5 she sold cost $100 to market. Thirst knows no limits.

Literally she named a song ***Flawless because two * weren't enough and hAS A FOURTH OF THE SONG BE A SPOKEN WORD FEMINIST SPEECH.

The last thing you see before Beyonce turns yo' bitch ass to stone with her black voodoo magic.

I truly thought Beyonce was done.

Oh

how

wrong

I

was.


Oh oh yeah, and the musics pretty good too.

BEYONCÉ SONG LIST
1. “Pretty Hurts”
2. “Haunted”
3. “Drunk in Love” (Featuring JAY Z)
4. “Blow/Cherry”
5. “No Angel”
6. “Yoncé/Partition”
7. “Jealous”
8. “Rocket”
9. “Mine” (Featuring Drake)
10. “XO”
11. “***Flawless” (Featuring Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
12. “Superpower” (Featuring Frank Ocean)
13. “Heaven”
14. “Blue” (Featuring Blue Ivy)

BEYONCÉ VIDEO LIST
1. “Pretty Hurts” – Directed by Melina Matsoukas
2. “Ghost” – Directed by Pierre Debusschere
3. “Haunted” – Directed by Jonas Akerlund
4. “Drunk in Love” – Directed by Hype Williams
5. “Blow” – Directed by Hype Williams
6. “No Angel” – Directed by @lilinternet
7. “Yoncé” – Directed by Ricky Saiz
8. “Partition” – Directed by Jake Nava
9. “Jealous” – Directed by Beyoncé, Francesco Carrozzini & Todd Tourso
10. “Rocket” – Directed by Beyoncé, Ed Burke & Bill Kirstein
11. “Mine” – Directed by Pierre Debusschere
12. “XO” – Directed by Terry Richardson
13. “***Flawless” – Directed by Jake Nava
14. “Superpower” – Directed by Jonas Akerlund
15. “Heaven” – Directed by Beyoncé & Todd Tourso
16. “Blue” – Directed by Beyoncé, Ed Burke & Bill Kirstein
**BONUS VIDEO – “Grown Woman” – Directed by Jake Nava

PYD (feat R Kelly) review - Be Justin Bieber's girlfriend and get really bad misogynistic sex in return

Now that Justin Bieber finally popped his cherry by going to Brazil and sleeping with a prostitute, he's now convinced he's the expert of all things sex, as "PYD" clearly shows. PYD stands for "put you down" btw, which made me think this was an anti-bullying song for a while.

*Sigh*. Can I just listen to the iTunes snippet and pretend to have listened to the whole song and trash it? No? Ugh fine, gimme a second.

Browsing the YouTube comments while listening to this diarrhea.

Top of the iTunes - Week of 11/18

This segment reviews the top 10 U.S. iTunes songs of the week.

iTunes Top 10 for 11/18 (taken around 4pm)

As thanksgiving (and more importantly, Black Friday) inches closer, the pop industry is churning out even more trash than usual. After all, executives need Christmas presents too ($$$). This week saw a massive influx in music by boys who are only popular because 13 year old girls want to have sex with them. Other than that, some pretty interesting reshuffling has happened. Where did all the females go? Let's find out, and start the impressions.

1. One Direction - Diana (review)

One Direction is top dog this week utilizing their massive fan-base of sexually frustrated Tumblr users to push this new release to the top. It's.... eh. More than the usual eh of One Direction. (maybe it's a grower?)

Lbr, this is the only reason they're successful.

So even though One Direction is literally used as a euphemism for anal penetration in my friend circle ("I heard One Direction coming from my quad mate's room yesterday"), I actually listen to a few of their songs, especially this era. I got addicted to "Best Song Ever" once I found out I could play ukulele to it really easily, and I finally listened to "Story of my Life" and thought it was Spotify-worthy.

However, I can't really get into this song. Even looking beyond 1D's usual teen-Robin-Thicke lyrics. Like, it probably wasn't best to admit "you don't even know me" and then proceed to talk about sexing her up, and wanting to save her from her actual boyfriend. Also, do all five of them wanna have sex with this girl gang bang style, or are the rest just being musical wingmans?

"Don't worry! We'll save you from making your own choices about who you want to date!"

Anyway, the chorus is only decent and the verses are really dull. Next.

[WAIT-UNTIL-YOU-DIRECTIONER-FRIENDS-FORCE-YOU-TO-LISTEN-TO IT]

2. Justin Bieber -  PYD (feat. R Kelly) (review)

Can I just listen to the iTunes snippet and pretend to have listened to the whole song and trash it? No? Ugh fine, gimme a second.

Browsing the YouTube comments while listening to this diarrhea.

Looking at hot guys to try and distract myself.

Fuck this song is five minutes I did not plan for this.

Thinking up an R Kelly pee joke during his verse.

Okay so yeah, it still sucks.

[SHADE IT]

3. Eminem - The Monster (feat. Rihanna) (review)

Eminem's pandering-to-the-charts song drops two spots, but we all know JB and 1D's songs are gonna fall out of the top 10 by tomorrow, so it's still pretty much on top.

"Must not... look grateful..."

I added this song on Spotify and have listened to it a bit (19 times). However, it's started to get pretty boring already. Eminem's verses are cute and all ("Hit the lottery, oh wee", "guess beggars can't be choosey"), and Rihanna is on the chorus, but it all feels really light. Which is weird for a song about suffering from multiple mental illnesses. Idk. Eminiem's gonna slay the charts with this, but I'm gonna keep listening to "Beautiful Pain" instead.

[SPOTIFY IT]

4. Lorde - Royals (review)

Can we talk about the music video for a second? Like

1. How the US version is literally the same thing except we see Lorde's face more. Just shows how celebrity obsessed this country is compared to the rest of the world.
2. The two dudes in this.

Does anyone else ship them? No? Okay.

   3. Why are they boxing in a suspiciously unfurnished house? Like for a song about just being a normal                teenager, nothing they do in this music video is what any real teen does. 

Completely normal behavior.

[BUY IT]

5. OneRepublic - Counting Stars (review)

It'd take a really long time to count the stars. Like a seriously long time. Although I guess it'd probably take the same amount of time as counting dollars for OneRepublic with this song continuing to make bank.

I should probably talk about the music video, but I need a few more days to process it.

Uhh...

[SPOTIFY IT]

6. God$ha - Timber (feat. Shitbull) (review)

That girl's spray tan is as brown as wood.

God$ha continues to explode expectations and dominate the world with this pop masterpiece. In 100 years, historians will study this song for insight into the deep cultural values of early 21st century America. This song will play on the oldies station of Pandora. Ke$ha will be immortalized in ice so she can still smash out a hit every few years. And Warrior will still have sold less than 20 copies.

[BUY IT]

7. One Direction - Diana (review)

One Direction is top dog this week utilizing their massive fan-base of sexually frustrated Tumblr users to push this.... wait a second, what the fuck is this song doing at #7?!

Okay, so after thoroughly investigating, it seems that this version of the song is from the standard version of the album, while the one at #1 is from the deluxe version.

Also, both versions are exactly the same.

So pretty much, bitches be so thirsty they're buying this trash heap of a song twice in the hopes that Harry will let them suck his dick.

Not sure I'm seeing the appeal.

[STOP IT]

8. Imagine Dragons - Demons (review)

The cutest song of 2013 continues to get cuter. I've been blasting this song since last week, and still haven't gotten bored. Plus, the music video.

It's literally in memory of a guy who died of cancer, and consists of showing how their fan's lives are all fucked up (skinny guy hates being skinny, dad's an abusive drunk, etc).

Unaltered "Demons" music video screenshot.

[BUY IT]

9. Passenger - Let Her Go (review)

I really wanna like this song. Passenger has been around forever and now he finally is getting his first hit, the song's lyrics are well crafted, and it's great to see folk music making a (super minor) comeback.

But his voice is so annoying like holy fuck.

[SPOTIFY IT]

10. Katy Perry - Roar (review)

All I have to say about the song this week.

[SPOTIFY IT]

Obscure Indie Gems: aka any song not in the top 10

50. Lily Allen - Hard Out Here: I was gonna make a full review of this song. I still might. But basically all you need to know about this song is the chorus is seven words and feminists, argued, a lot, about, this, song.

88. Sia - Elastic Heart: I finally got around to listening to this. Gonna play this song like 10 times once I publish this post to wash the taste of "PYD" from my mouth. (also, I'm totally convinced this would be a great song to make love to, even though the lyrics aren't very applicable for that act.)

NES Ambassador Games - Fun Glitches to Try on Your 3DS

I started this article like two years ago and never finished it. Cleaning house, here it is.

Glitches!
As mentioned before, these versions are direct NES ports of the games. Basically, a ROM dump. That means that all the glitches and bugs that were present in those games should work on your 3DS. This is really exciting for me, as I love trying out glitches. Here are a few of my favorites for you to try:

Top of the iTunes - Week of 11/11

This segment reviews the top 10 U.S. iTunes songs of the week.

iTunes Top 10 for 11/11 (taken around 5pm)

On this lucky week (make a wish!), let's look at what songs are currently making bank in the top 10. This week isn't All Bad, as some Royal tunes are Roaring  and.... okay whatever, let's just skip to the impressions.

1. Justin Bieber - All Bad (review)

The newest entry in the "Music Mondays" series, Bieb's attempt to make his fans buy 10 singles and then also buy the album, "All Bad" is a title reflecting on his music.

Ha.