justin timberlake - can't stop the feeling (trolls OST)
setting up a most likely entertaining soundtrack for the upcoming animated film trolls, justin timberlake returns with this max martin summer anthem that you'll be hearing ALOT of in the coming months! featuring his co-stars anna kendrick, gwen stefani, james corden, kunal nayyar, ron funches and icona pop, the whole gang gather up to bop to this uber catchy pop number. will we be getting a proper JT album then? that remains to be seen.
sia feat sean paul - cheap thrills
sometimes a song just needs a little bit extra to push it into that hitzone. such is the case of sia's current single 'cheap thrills' which in it's original version is perfectly catchy, but somehow sean paul's additional verses just kicks the cheese factor into an awesome zone and well... maybe rihanna or icona pop wouldn't have said no then.
icona pop - all night
nothing like celebrating ball culture again for a whole new generation (since we lost so many great belles to AIDS in the 90's). bless the swede gals icona pop to bring this world to a mass audience. just in case you wanna know who strutted in this video, they are: chi chi, pony, jeremy, marie, derrick, javier, gisele, mother leiomy, princess lockeroo and father jose.
icona pop - all night
whew... icona pop were on the verge of being a one hit wonder. thank goodness they dropped 'girlfriend' as the follow up single and came up with this singalong number for the masses. i'm really hoping there's more to these gals than this kind of dance pop, but for now it's still summer and i need a bounce soundtrack!
robin thicke - i love it (icona pop cover) (live @ bbc live lounge)
turning the lyrics around, it's now a sexy r&b middle age crisis theme song! who knew?
dj earworm - summer mash '13
he's baaack! and just in time for the heart of summer!
mashup list:
Armin van Buuren feat. Trevor Guthrie - This Is What It Feels Like
Bastille - Pompeii
Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams- Get Lucky
Demi Lovato - Heart Attack
Icona Pop feat .Charlie XCX - I Love It
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Ray Dalton - Can't Hold Us
Pitbull feat. Christina Aguilera - Feel This Moment
Rihanna feat. David Guetta - Right Now
Robin Thicke feat. T.I. & Pharrell Williams
Will.i.am feat. Justin Bieber
Zedd feat. Foxes - Clarity
icona pop - girlfriend
though it's not as strong as 'i love it', this BFF (and possibly sapphic) anthem is a wonderful companion piece for this swedish duo!
As we get closer to the Top 10, one wonders how pop icons like Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Ellie Goulding and Ed Sheeran all got shafted into the Top 20 instead! Of course they all offered some serious tracks for the year (Riri with her club anthems, Taylor supplying some of the best pop ballads - and the heartbreaking Ronan, Ellie bringing her form of future pop and Ed just writing endless hit after hit) but somehow it still wasn't enough to break the 10.
As for the rest of the Top 20, they offer up a wonderful 'best of' 2012: Jake Bugg (the best old skool rockabilly young singer of the year! his energy is amazing!), Conor Maynard (the best pop boy vocalist out at the moment), Bastille (the best indie pop dude of last year and maybe this one!), Icona Pop (the best kick you in the neck bratty bitch song of the last year!), 2ne1 (the best kpop song of last year - it's 5 songs in one and all of them are catchy!) and Grimes (the best hipster girl pop song of the year - literally EVERYONE i know sings along to this song when they hear it).
icona pop - i love it
with all the zeal of a sassy b*tch you never really want to know (but secretly love), THIS is easily on the shortlist of one of the best songs of the summer! of course hipsters have been bopping to this since may, but i say, better late than never! produced by patrik berger (robyn) and written by the buzzed artist charli xcx, just turn this mutha up yo!
