Ashley

The cover's cool. Very Holga-esque.

This is her performance from the Spanish equivalent of Hope For Haiti. This performance blows I'll Stand By You out of the water. She needs to start performing her own songs with this arrangement. Y2n8-3W1iWk

I think she did a good job: nr058Vb95A0

I was looking forward to these few months as a period unaffected by Simon Cowell after the complete saturation of X Factor but alas...I guess we just can't escape.

It was funny when people we were watching it for free on TV but the prospect of people buying this makes me physically sick.

Oh no, what's happened to Girls? The version with the Harpsichord-like instrument on the chorus was so much better. I'm glad the album version of Hollywood has the "air hostesses" bit in it...I love that verse so much and always miss it in the single version. Hermit the Frog sounds really good...I was never bowled over by the demo but now I'm really drawn to it after listening to that snippet. The final version of Numb sounds pretty amazing as well. All the new songs sound pretty good as well. The only one that sounds a bit meh is Rootless, but I'm not going to judge it from 30 seconds.

Good song, good video. It's nothing amazing but it'll do the job and get the song some TV plays.

He's the guy from Talking Heads, no? Not heard yet...any link to a stream? Edit: Heard it...meh...found it a bit grating TBH.

Can't believe it's struggling to get top 10 :o It has to get there by Sunday or they're pretty much finished.

I really hope it's true. The thing is, Sony have officially confirmed that Gypsy is the next UK single which means Men In This Town could be the next US single but that's so stupid because Men In This Town is such a Euro single. Gypsy is just going to be a big flop - I don't get why they are so determined to release it when every review and poll has highlighted Men In This Town as people's favourite song from the album.

Shakira Releases Gypsy on April 5th! 18/01/2010 Shakira has announced the release of the 3rd single from her stunning album She-Wolf! Gypsy will be released in the UK on April 5th but if you can't wait until then you can always pick up a copy of She-Wolf to hear it! We'll be back soon with more Shakira news! Team Shakira x http://www.sonymusic.co.uk/news/15765/ Ugh...guess it's true then. I was really hoping they'd go for Men In This Town. I guess the video will be out late Feb.

The video for this is a mess. Trying to turn a music video into a mini film doesn't work.

Oh No! has been added to the iTunes tracklist for the Family Jewels. Also, there's a track called the Family Jewels but I'm not sure whether that's going to be a video or a booklet or something or maybe another song?

Breakin Dishes is always mentioned in these types of threads but I really don't understand why...as a decentish album track I can understand (although I think Lemme Get That and Sell Me Candy Are Better) but as a single it never would've worked. It doesn't have any decent hook or any interesting production to compensate for the lack of melody. Maybe I just don't get it. Another thing I noticed in this thread is the amount of people saying Lady Gaga - Paper Gangster. I downloaded the Fame when it first came out in Canada so never got the new tracks (except Starstruck) so thought I better get this Paper Gangster and it's pretty good, even though it could without RedOne's "trademark" horn. But does anyone else think it kinda sounds like The Vengabus? "Don't want no paper gangster" - "The vengabus is coming"???

Just bought Echo as well - mainly because a decent mp3 seems to be impossible to find but I really love it. It's about the only decent proper new song out at the moment so I hope it does well.

Just realised how amazing the bridge of this is. My other fave pop song at the moment is Ego and the bit that lets it down is the bridge which is more just a shouty section.

Sorry, but I can't help it. I can appreciate the music but not the artist. The truth is she got a bit of a free pass to where she is. She may've worked hard on her album, but she skipped all the process that was needed to get to the point where she was even allowed to make an album.

Once sounds great. She would've been up there with Ellie Goulding and Marina if there wasn't the X Factor tainting her credibility. And as much as I like her, it still taints my view of her.

Shakira needs to release Men In This Town now.

I don't think so. I think this is going top 10 pretty easy. I see it on the video channels all the time and seem to hear it on the radio all the time too. I think it's a great little catchy pop tune.

Gabriella Cilmi - Got No Place To Go Kate Nash - We Get On Beyoncé - Radio Black Eyed Peas - Dum Diddly Christina Aguilera - Slow Down Baby Shakira - Animal City Shakira - Men In This Town Fergie - Here I Come Gwen Stefani - The Real Thing Keri Hilson - Get Your Money Up Keri Hilson - Aliented Kelly Clarkson - Gone Lily Allen - Friday Night Santogold - Shove It Santogold - I'm A Lady Sugababes - Never Gonna Dance Again Ting Tings - Fruit Machine

I saw Hollywood for the first time today on Viva. Kinda weird seeing a Marina song after Jay Sean.

I had never actually heard any Sade before this but Soldier of Love is seriously amazing. I saw it on a Lost promo and instantly went "I need to have this!" I would hope this could go top 10 but I reckon top 20.

I posted somewhere that I wasn't really looking forward to this album because I wasn't too keen on the direction she was going in post-Kala. But this is EXACTLY the direction I wanted her to go. I always enjoyed her more laid back tracks like Sunshowers, Paper Planes and Take It Easy and really wanted to see what she'd be like doing some nice trippy song like this. It's perfect.

Doesn't sound like much of a progression from her first album, but that's not a problem cuz her first album was amazing.