Happy New Year everybody! 2007 was named Year Of The Dolphin by the United Nations Environment Programme, it was Year Of The Pig in the Chinese calendar and, my favorite, European Year Of Equal Opportunities For All! I didn’t know years got themes, is that new? I like it, it sounds like a communist hippie came up with it. I have no idea what they thought was going to happen after they gave the year such a magnificent moniker. I don’t think anybody else knew the EU thought up themes for us either, so I have a feeling that we didn’t get more equal opportunities than other years, but it’s a nice sentiment. This year’s theme is Intercultural Dialogue! Right … or as they say in Swahili: Vizuri. Anyway, it’s still a little early for nostalgia, but let’s have a look at the songs that rocked our world last year.
Here’s the World’s Top Ten most popular singles of 2007 according to the United World Chart:
10. Mika - Grace Kelly
9. Plain White T’s - Hey There Delilah
8. Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around Comes Around
7. Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend
6. Timbaland ft. Keri Hilson & D.O.E. - The Way I Are
5. Maroon 5 - Makes Me Wonder
4. Gwen Stefani Ft. Akon - Sweet Escape
3. Fergie - Big Girls Don’t Cry
2. Nelly Furtado - Say It Right
1. Rihanna ft. Jay-Z - Umbrella
All in all a good bunch! I do however have an inherent aversion to Fergie and Avril Lavigne’s lyrics are so painfully bad that it hurts me a little to listen to it. Oh and, “Hey There Delilah” makes me yawn. It’s monotonous and dreary, there’s no change in mood or pace, but it’s good music for pondering life, or ending it. Alright I’m sorry, I started out positive but it turned into a bitter moan fest. The rest really is testimony that 2007 was not a bad year in Pop music, maybe a bit unadventurous, but not bad at all. We got Mika who sounds like a Bee Gee channeling Freddy Mercury with “Grace Kelly”. And there’s Gwen Stefani who shows a hint of Kylie post-Neighbours with “Sweet Escape”. It doesn’t touch Gwen’s best work, but it is sweet. I didn’t really get Akon’s popularity, but he does deliver the good pop, so one of my new resolutions is to stop bitching about him. And then there’s Justin. He could sing about the traffic, for all I care, and I’d listen to it and like it. But there can only be one who rules all! This year Rihanna sang her way into our collective cerebella-ella-ella. Though “Umbrella” is a great song, I can do without the barrage of cover versions by Biffy Clyro, McFly, My Chemical Romance, fellow chart mates Plain White T’s, that pretty Youtube chick and more, Mandy Moore.
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January 25, 2008 at 6:24 pm
patricia
yes justin timberlake rocks!! not so sure about the trffic part though… Riannahs song i like but i reaally don’t understand the video.aren’t Timberlake and timbaland supposed to be a dou, or a group, or somin’? I mean look at there name’s for pete’s sake!!