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http://pitchfork.com/news/53021-listen-kat...-for-no-reason/

 

once again, super good.

Love this. :heart:

I like this a lot for a Katy ballad :o Really interesting production and it's good to hear her on something a bit more stripped back. Not quite '5AM' but it is so baffling how everything after 'What Love Is Made Of' has been so superior to it. Will never know how that got to be single #1.

The best song she might ever have made.

This track is absolutely amazing. I feel like I don't have the words to describe how much I love it, the lyrics are so good! I have LOVED some of her back catalogue but I think this could be her best yet. Just amazing. This needs to be absolutely massive.

 

I do prefer this version to the one linked in the first post though, but both are amazing.

 

Out of the singles, I'd have to rank them in this order:

 

Crying For No Reason

Broken Record (Just amazing, so catchy and the video is dark)

Perfect Stranger (Really love the lyrics and the production!)

(Aaliyah) [Great track, putting a modern spin on 'Jolene']

5am (Really good, catchy. Solid record)

Katy On A Mission (So refreshing, you can listen to it again and again)

Witches' Brew (Pretty much a perfect pop record)

Easy Please Me (Excellent production and beat, lyrics slightly cringeworthy)

Lights On (I don't mind it but I find it a little too repetitive)

What Love Is Made Of (A bit underwhelming but alright)

01 Crying For No Reason

02 5am

03 Perfect Stranger

04 Easy Please Me

05 Broken Record

06 Katy On A Mission

07 Lights On

08 Aaliyah

09 What Love Is Made Of

10 Witches' Brew

 

I don't even dislike Witches' Brew, it's just not really my thing.

01 Crying For No Reason

02 5am

03 Perfect Stranger

04 Easy Please Me

05 Broken Record

06 Katy On A Mission

07 Lights On

08 Aaliyah

09 What Love Is Made Of

10 Witches' Brew

 

I don't even dislike Witches' Brew, it's just not really my thing.

 

Witches' Brew bottom? Be gone with you! <_<

Really like the 'complete' ballad version, but there's just something about the first one posted that just has this 'Katy B' thing to it.

This is amazing :wub:

Finally made me buy tickets to her show next year, I just have to see her.

01 Katy On A Mission (11/10)

02 Aaliyah (10/10)

03 5am (10/10)

04 Lights On (10/10)

05 Witches' Brew (10/10)

06 Broken Record (9/10)

07 Easy Please Me (9/10)

08 What Love Is Made Of (9/10)

09 Perfect Stranger (8/10)

 

I can see Crying for No Reason appearing ~6 but it's too early to tell!

 

EDIT: About the actual song, it's great to hear something a bit different from her and I think it works really well :wub:

Edited November 17, 201311 yr by Rabbit Heart

Absolute stunner AGAIN.

 

Up there as my most anticipated album of 2014 now.

Absolute stunner AGAIN.

 

Up there as my most anticipated album of 2014 now.

basically.

 

this woman has been absolutely flawless bar 'what love is made of' which EVEN THEN is like a 7.5/10 moment... strong lowlight.

listened to What Love Is Made Of last night and it's not even a bad as I remember! she is just mental.

I was a bit wary of the hype surrounding this, but it's pretty beautiful. She just keeps DELIVERING, loved both her previous singles this era to pieces and it looks like this one is going the same way.

 

Definitely need the album after this.

If there's any justice in the world, this will go down as a pop classic.

I am AGOG at how good this is. It encapsulates everything a ballad should be with some really interesting production too.

 

This would be a huge global #01 if someone like Katy Perry sang it. But then it wouldn't have those emotional nuances and subtly that Katy B brings to her music continually.

it's not very often you listen to a song and on first listen it totally takes you over and have such a strong emotional response to it. 12.5/10.

Just heard Greg James play this and just... WOW.

 

She's releasing it Jan so I'm confident it'll be as big as 5AM if not bigger. If radio really picks it up, could it challenge for #1?

I have a feeling it'll go Top 10 just from Radio 1 playlisting it to be honest.

01 Katy On A Mission - 11/10

02 Perfect Stranger - 10/10

03 Broken Record - 9/10

04 Aaliyah - 8/10

05 Witches' Brew - 8/10

06 Crying For No Reason - 8/10

07 5am - 8/10

08 What Love Is Made Of - 7/10

09 Easy Please Me - 7/10

10 Lights On - 5/10

 

A rather fabulous discography actually. 'Crying For No Reason' is lovely, I would have loved a bit more Katy B edge into it though which could have made it a 9 or 10. I think it will grow even more though. 'Lights On' is the only song that just hasn't been up to it for me - shame it's her best performing single!

Edited November 19, 201311 yr by Davidson