Once again my opinions are inevitably going to differ from other people, but I'm not trying to convince anyone something is good or rubbish, I'm simply giving my opinion.
Here is the top 20 from this week in with my verdict on each record:
20. Jess Glynne - All I Am
Jess Glynne has only been round for 5 minutes but has already had 7 number ones. The first one was "Hold My Hand" and this sounds pretty much the same. It's basically a dancey tune with some annoying over the top vocals
Verdict - Rubbish
19. XXXTENTACION & Lil Pump ft. Maluma & Swae Lee - Arms Around You
XXXtentacion came to most people attention when he was shot dead earlier this year. He's had number of posthumous hits since then. I was under the impression he was a rapper but it doesn't sound like he's rapping on this. In fact despite their being four people on the track it sounds like its the same person "rapping" throughout, very boring.
Verdict - Rubbish
18. Dean Lewis - Be Alright
No this isn't Ed Sheeran, just someone who sounds like him. This was a number one in his native Australia but hasn't managed it in this country yet. I find it rather dull to be honest.
Verdict - Rubbish
17. DJ Snake ft. Selena Gomez, Ozuna & Cardi B - Taki Taki
What the fuck is this? It's like DJ Snake came up with some really annoying sound and decided to recruit the 3 most annoying singers/rappers or whatever they are that he could find to provide some dreadful vocals. Absolutely terrible song.
Verdict - Rubbish
16. Jonas Blue, Liam Payne & Lennon Stella - Polaroid
Definitely the best one in the countdown so far, which isn't saying much. My thoughts before listening to it was "oh no not another one by everyone featuring everyone else" but this is actually alright.
Verdict - OK
15. Kanye West & Lil Pump - I Love It
Another song with Lil Pump as a featured artist. Kanye West is one of these artists I'd love to hate but I do own his first 2 albums. I don't consider this one to be a good tune, but it's funny and nice and short and better than most of the rubbish in this countdown so far.
Verdict - OK
14. MK, Jonas Blue & Becky Hill - Back And Forth
Now we have Jonas Blue featuring a second time. The other day I was watching a Dance music show from 2001 and someone mentioned something MK did in the 90s and said "where is he now?", well here he his. Take the vocals out and this could be a good tune, but given we do have the crap singing I can only call this OK.
Verdict - OK
13. Sigala, Ella Eyre & Meghan Trainor ft. French Montana - Just Got Paid
Oh no, it's that god awful Ella Eyre who ruined every tune she sang on when she was with Pete Tong and his orchestra a couple of years ago. Her singing is just as annoying here and she seems to have the lions share of vocal duties in this tune. Terrible.
Verdict - Rubbish
12. Freya Ridings - Lost Without You
We go from a few songs that feature a lot of people to a song that not only is by one person but it sounds like she literally is the only person on it. She plays the piano and that is the only instrument I can hear in the song. Unfortunately the result is a song that's pretty boring.
Verdict - Rubbish
11. Silk City & Dua Lipa - Electricity
This is the best record in the countdown so far. It has a good beat, nice bit of piano and something good to dance to. Unfortunately like many other Dance records of the modern era it suffers from shit vocals so on that basis it just gets an ok from me.
Verdict - OK
10. Post Malone & Swae Lee - Sunflower
Now we have Swae Lee appearing for a second time in this countdown. Once again I'm not sure whether this is supposed to be singing or rapping, but whatever it is it's bloody boring.
Verdict - Rubbish
9. Halsey - Without Me
Many of the records in the countdown so far have either been annoying or boring. This record somehow manages to be both. A boring backing track with an annoying almost chipmunk sounding singer. Also swearing in a pop song just sounds ridiculous, leave it to the rappers.
Verdict - Rubbish
8. Kodak Black ft. Travis Scott & Offset - Zeze
There's not an awful lot wrong with this record. The rappers are clearly rapping, it's quite catchy too but I just can't bring myself to like it for some reason.
Verdict - Rubbish
7. Jess Glynne - Thursday
The second appearance of Jess Glynne in the countdown, it's getting ridiculous now how many acts are appearing twice. As soon as I hear the opening line "I won't wear make up on Thursday" I think oh dear. It doesn't get any better, I'm just finding myself waiting for the song to start which it semi does after 3 minutes, but it's a load of crap basically.
Verdict - Rubbish
6. Dave ft. Fredo - Funky Friday
A rapper called Dave, I find that quite amusing. This is actually ok, proper rapping, lyrics that mean something and no annoying singers collaborating. Doesn't quite have that wow factor to make it a good tune, but its not bad.
Verdict - OK
5. Rita Ora - Let You Love Me
I remember hearing "Hot Right Now" by DJ Fresh back in 2012. DJ Fresh was someone I'd been listening to since the 90s when he was part of Bad Company. I thought not a bad tune but that singer is bloody awful, that singer was Rita Ora. Unfortunately she hasn't gone away, still releasing shit song after shit song and this is the latest of those.
Verdict - Rubbish
4. Calvin Harris & Sam Smith - Promises
I've often wondered whether Calvin Harris actually likes the music he makes. This is a man who went from making his entire debut album on his own in his bedroom to having a variety of shit big name vocalists on all his big hits and has become the richest DJ in the process.
Verdict - Rubbish
3. Little Mix ft. Nicki Minaj - Woman Like Me
When Snoop Dogg, an American rapper, collaborated with Olly Murs, an X Factor contestant recently people seemed to be very surprised. Now we have Nicki Minaj, an American rapper, collaborating with Little Mix, X Factor contestants, but nobody finds that odd it seems. Maybe that says something about Nicki Minaj's credibility as a rapper more than anything. I expected this song to be rubbish and I was right.
Verdict - Rubbish
2. Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper - Shallow
Lady Gaga does country music, oh dear. That's all I have to say about this record.
Verdict - Rubbish
1. Ariana Grande - Thank U Next
I'm wondering whether the charts is now a measure of how shit a song is these days. It's like people say have you heard that dreadful Ariana Grande song prompting someone to take a listen and therefore enhance its prospects in the charts. I thought it would be difficult to have a song in the countdown worse than the Halsey song but I think this might have achieved it.
Verdict - Rubbish
Using the same scoring system of giving the records which were good 1 point each and those which were OK half a point, the final score is 2.5/20, or 12.5%.
A big victory for 1998 then, which almost seemed inevitable. Ok I was still a teenager in 1998 and I'm now much older than the current target market.
But whilst we like to say music was better in our day whilst looking through rose tinted specs and we're quick to write off modern music without even listening to it, this is a song by song comparison.
Granted some music can take time to get into, and who knows maybe one or two of the OK songs may turn into good songs over time. However many of the records in the current Top 20 are unbelievably bad and I can't see myself ever liking them.
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