It was just about a year ago when most of us first heard of Iyaz via his debut single “Replay”, which ruled the airwaves all last fall ultimately reaching the top of the Billboard Pop chart. The Beluga Heights (j-j-j-j-j-r) artist and Sean Kingston protege (wait, Sean Kingston’s old enough to have a protege?) followed that song up with the lovely “Solo”, which copped a hook from Janet Jackson but failed to really take off at radio this spring; he’s since made guest appearances on singles by two teen pop newcomers, Charice and Auburn. Here he’s returning with his third single, another summery sweet, and squeaky clean Carribean-flavored dance pop dittie that should go over well with all the kiddies. And by kiddies, I mean toddlers. How big is Iyaz’s love for you? Sooo big! How big is Iyaz gonna spend it up? Sooo big! How big a hit is this song going to be? Sooo… err… well, we’ll see. (Aww, man, not “we’ll see”! I hated when my mom said that!)
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First Look: Miranda Lambert “Only Prettier”
Election season is ramping up and many commentators are pointing to 2010 as a pivotal year for women in politics, what with Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann and Sharron Angle and Carly Fiorina, and that one from South Carolina that was accused of having an affair but couldn’t possibly have had an affair because she’s, like, totally married and stuff and her husband is totally hot. Haters just be jealous. Miranda Lambert is taking notice with the fourth single off her latest album Revolution. As a former Nashville Star finalist (she placed third in the show’s debut season), Lambert has certainly experienced her fair share of the vicissitudes of the Amer’can voting public. “Only Prettier” is a gloriously old-school country rocker, a stomping celebration of catty girl politics loaded up with adorably venomous one-liners and winking, semi-sincere appeals to hatchet burial, echoing the same promises politicians trot out every election season – “oh, let’s shake hands and reach across those party lines.” Oh yes, let’s do. And let’s spike the punch while we’re at it. The song’s perfectly complimentary video finds Lambert and her band on stage playing at a 50s era high school prom where two rival cliques – the debutantes and the bad girls, both played by the same quartet of actresses led by Lambert herself – go head to head (under a gymnasium arc d’ballon) in a battle for social supremacy. And as it turns out, they’re all just two sides of the same coin.
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The Monday Morning Awesome: Craig David “Hot Stuff (Let’s Dance)” (2007)
20 years ago, I remember getting pissed off hearing Vanilla Ice on the radio because, for the first two or three seconds, “Ice Ice Baby” always had me fooled into thinking I was about to hear “Under Pressure”. Oh, the crushing disappointment! In 2007, Craig David fooled me into thinking I was about to hear David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” – only he took that song’s iconic intro and hook and gave the whole thing a glittery make-over that still drives me wild (in a good way) every time I hear it. Happy Monday, people!