Let the 'Beat control your body

^{Wednesday January 6th 2010}  

The ’90s are back.
After Aqua’s return to planet pop in 2009, 2010 is promising us comebacks from Whigfield, Ace Of Base, The Vengaboys ánd the 2 members of 2 Unlimited, who aren’t allowed to call themselves 2 Unlimited anymore. (in case you haven’t heard it yet, this is their, not very convincing comeback single)

While all of the original ’90s acts seem to have updated their sound to something more ’10s in hopes of being successful again, surprisingly Alphabeat have decided to go back to a sound that’s pretty much typically ’90s for their latest album, The Spell.

And yes, their new single & video Hole In My Heart is even more 90s-tastic than The Spell was (though there’s more than a hint of the ’80s as well).

There’s a lot of Anders in this song and video, which is sort of a good thing (he’s rather cute) but at the same time a bit too much, because there’s always something rather weird about the way that guy moves and looks. Yes, we get it, Stine flying through his body might have something to do with it, but we take it she hasn’t been doing that in their past 6 videos as well.

We need a resolution!

^{Tuesday January 5th 2010}  

We’re a little late, but first of all, happy 2010 to everyone who didn’t get our new years tweet!

Not unlike many others we have a few resolutions for this year, our main one being to make Popsessed.com even more enjoyable for you all.
We’ve been around for three months now, and we’re starting to get a clearer idea on what does and doesn’t work, so we’ve already made quite a few plans on how we’re going to change the site this year to make it even better. But before we start shaking things up, we’d like your opinion on how you like your pop blogs.

Below is a 20 question survey that should take only a few minutes to fill in. You don’t have to be a (frequent) visitor of Popsessed to answer most questions. Just let us now what you’re ideal pop blog looks like, and we’ll try our best to become that blog for you!

That’s it!
Thanks a lot, and we hope you’ll enjoy our site even more in 2010!

Where do we go from here?

^{Tuesday December 29th 2009}  

It’s up to you!
We’ve (almost) finished our Year 2000-special, and plan on continuing with the other 9 years (meanwhile there’ll be normal updates as well). We originally planned on going through them year by year, but since the end of 2009 is getting very near it might make sense to first focus on the past year, before continuing with the pop history of this decade.
Then again, we might be more able to properly judge this year’s material when it’s sinked in a bit, and it’s not like there aren’t enough ‘end of the year’-lists around right now..

So we figured we’d just ask our readers what they prefer!
It’s all up to you to decide what will be the main theme of our posts for the next few weeks…

2000: The Singles List

^{Tuesday December 29th 2009}  

And the first song of the year from this decade is….

Samantha Mumba - Gotta Tell You
Released: 2 June 2000 > Uk Peak Position: #2

Why did it win?
- As you’ve read before we’re suckers for songs with an ‘if only you knew how much I love you’ theme, and this is definitely one of the best in it’s genre.
- It’s one of the strongest debut singles in pop.
- It’s not only got a killer chorus, but some killer verses and a great middle-eight as well.
- The video is pretty great as well. We’d love to have made our own version of it as a tribute, but we’d probably end up eating through a straw if we did.
- Had Britney released this it would have been a worldwide #1.
- We’re glad she didn’t cause if anything makes this song stand out it’s Miss Mumba’s vocals.
- It still sounds as great and fresh as it did back then after almost 10 years.
- We could talk for hours about it’s greatness, but the only way to see what we mean is to just play the song.. so hit that button and enjoy!!

Here’s our full Top 100 of 2000:


We’ve also created a special archive where all our Remembering The 00’s-posts will be collected!

And now we’ve finished this countdown we’re really curious where you agreed and disagreed on our list, and what are your favourite songs from 2000!

2000: The Singles List (#2)

^{Thursday December 24th 2009}  

Why did it make the Top 10?
This is pop gold. From the piano intro through a bunch of verses and choruses, that keep building up, all the way to the piano outro, everything’s in the right place. Lyrically this is basically Push The Button 2000. The lyrics ooze confidence (‘you want me, so let’s not play hide and seek’), but the heartfelt way it’s sung reveals the real sentiment of the song is pure desperation. These girls are getting tired of playing ‘hard to get’ and still not getting the guy. Vocally the girls are pretty much on top of the game on this one as well, and if we disregard the video Come And Get Me has aged incredibly well. It truly hurts and confuses us this was their lowest charting single.

Do we like the group as much as the song?
Cleopatra were good fun at the time, but no.. We don’t think they’re even half as good as this song suggests. Not many groups are though.

Is it their best song?
Only by a mile.

Is it one of the decade’s finest moments?
Hell yeah! You’ll definitely be seeing this one back in our ’00s Top 100.