Kylie's latest, released less than a week ago.  The official video hasn't been released but I will post it once it does.  :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_jbqQPyFkU

From January 2014,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh1j6USUC9Q
Silver Timothy - Damien Jurado

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRJOk7z4mws

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LMFAO!

This song came out in 2012 but Platinum Blonde hadn't made a video since Beautiful which had been released in August of 2012.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NdR71bozts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRIIHEndqbE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc7SfWGT-ak

Kylie's latest, released less than a week ago.  The official video hasn't been released but I will post it once it does.  :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_jbqQPyFkU

Here it is!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL6FaI-wJxs

This song was originally recorded in 2006, but didn't chart in the US until late in 2013.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz2GVlQkn4Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHkozMIXZ8w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi2Cbu7C8mk

Son Lux & Lorde from his EP Alternate Worlds "Easy"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AlKUKxgg4U#t=126

Kylie knows how to be sexy without taking off everything and licking a hammer...  Here is her latest single, "Sexersize".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3VjJKKVNew

Shakira - Empire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QapfTGTXbxc

How do you like the vibe that 2014's music provides?


Now that 2014 is a quarter of the way over, I can say that the vibe so far is terrible. Whether I listen to the hip-hop or top 40 station, there seems to be no good songs and they keep playing the same crap over and over. There are only a few good songs worth mentioning:

- "Drunk in Love" by Beyonce
- "Dice Pineapples" by Rick Ross
- "Adore You" by Miley Cyrus (that's actually the first Miley song I like)

It could be because things aren't going well in my life this year, so maybe the music just sounds like crap, or it could be that this year is just crap all around.

Now that 2014 is a quarter of the way over, I can say that the vibe so far is terrible. Whether I listen to the hip-hop or top 40 station, there seems to be no good songs and they keep playing the same crap over and over. There are only a few good songs worth mentioning:

- "Drunk in Love" by Beyonce
- "Dice Pineapples" by Rick Ross
- "Adore You" by Miley Cyrus (that's actually the first Miley song I like)

It could be because things aren't going well in my life this year, so maybe the music just sounds like crap, or it could be that this year is just crap all around.


Yeah.  I agree with you there.  Except for Platinum Blonde there really isn't anything that's even worth mentioning.  :(

Now that 2014 is a quarter of the way over, I can say that the vibe so far is terrible. Whether I listen to the hip-hop or top 40 station, there seems to be no good songs and they keep playing the same crap over and over. There are only a few good songs worth mentioning:

- "Drunk in Love" by Beyonce
- "Dice Pineapples" by Rick Ross
- "Adore You" by Miley Cyrus (that's actually the first Miley song I like)

It could be because things aren't going well in my life this year, so maybe the music just sounds like crap, or it could be that this year is just crap all around.


It's not just you, it really is crappy this year. And if it isn't crappy, it's cliche and boring as hell.

Sad, especially considering that years that end in 4 seem to be lucky for me. (i.e. born in 1994, 2004 was one of my favourite years, etc).

I disagree.  So far I think 2014 is much better than 2013.

Shakira F. Blake Shelton - Medicine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgEDnIbvepM

I've enjoyed what radio has been playing this decade so far.....but this year is just.....dull.


But music in general is continuing to improve IMO.....especially Hip-Hop and R&B....both are going back to their roots and aren't concerned with catering to Pop radio.

I agree with the people on here saying that 2014 has been pretty dull so far for music.  I don't think it's been bad.  In fact, a lot of the stuff coming out right now isn't outright bad.  However, it just...I don't know, just doesn't really stick out to me.  Maybe it will get better, so far it's off to a duller start than the past few years were. 

That said, I do agree with those who have said that the radio is better this decade than last decade.  Top 40 radio is genuinely listenable in the 2010s, at least for me.  And I say that as a 00s teen.  With the exception of rock music, almost every mainstream style of music has improved in the 2010s.

I agree with the people on here saying that 2014 has been pretty dull so far for music.  I don't think it's been bad.  In fact, a lot of the stuff coming out right now isn't outright bad.  However, it just...I don't know, just doesn't really stick out to me.  Maybe it will get better, so far it's off to a duller start than the past few years were. 

That said, I do agree with those who have said that the radio is better this decade than last decade.  Top 40 radio is genuinely listenable in the 2010s, at least for me.  And I say that as a 00s teen.  With the exception of rock music, almost every mainstream style of music has improved in the 2010s.


I think this year doesnt quite stick out because we're in that point where certain music trends are going away, some are coming in and theres no definitive sound in this point in time. 2008-early 2013 was littered with auto-tune, 808s, and EDM influences. That's going away, well, at least in top 40 world it is. There have been a lot of trends in music that have been coming and going, and nothing has stuck yet, i feel.

I haven't been listening to the radio much lately either, but whenever I do, it's the same overplayed crap I heard just a few months ago. Is there really nothing new?

Katy Perry - Birthday
Katy plays a few interesting characters in this.  Including an old cougar who pops out of a cake!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEUg7OplvIQ

Katy Perry - Birthday
Katy plays a few interesting characters in this.  Including an old cougar who pops out of a cake!
I kinda like it, the beat is very funky.

Ahem!

Like I said "Except for Platinum Blonde there's really nothing out there that's even worth mentioning." Ahem. Ahem.  :P

@ the discontent, the music industry died in the mid2000s.  THE major rock radio station where i live has completely stopped playing new songs in 2008, they were just trickling in before then; it has become a early 2000s and classic rock station. 

New study (2012) shows teens listen to music most through YouTube, radio still dominates music discovery
http://www.altpress.com/news/entry/new_study_shows_teens_listen_to_music_most_through_youtube_radio_still_domi
what are we gonna do?! i do admit that is exciting watching old media and consumerism go away, all the while global extreme poverty is being eradicated. it's a tough job,

it's a tough job, but today WE are the A&R persons Post-Music Industry. I found a whole lotta obscure good songs from the 80s-2000s that are good enough for radio, linked @ my blog below.


Local H - Team
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnALjPUtrDY
cover a song from Lorde, the artist of the minute in the mainstream.  it's alright.


my 2010s music playlist and other music playlists sorted by decade
postmusicindustry.blogspot.com

Is it just me, or has there been a noticable shift in Top 40 radio over the last month or so? I stopped listening for about a month, and started again over the last week and it seems....different. I can't really explain it, but I like it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xg-Wk2DEXs
  - Freddy Scott, This Is A Trent Reznor Video

"Chandelier" by Sia has grown on me. It's outrageously catchy.

It reminds of me a 2010's take on a 90's, maybe even 80's pop song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz2658gzOuM

Powerman 5000 - How To Be A Human

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR7qwu8grWo

No 2014 music thread would be complete without this:

Dotan - Home (to date)]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2ZB7WF_Hko

"Stay with Me" is a song by English recording artist Sam Smith from his debut studio album In the Lonely Hour (2014). It was released in the United Kingdom as a digital download on 18 May 2014. "Stay with Me" is a gospel-inspired ballad that details the protagonist pleading with his one-night stand not to leave him. The song was written by Smith, James Napier, and William Phillips, with Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne also receiving co-writer credits due to the song's similarity to Petty's single "I Won't Back Down".

The song has become Smith's most successful single to date, peaking at number one in the UK Singles Chart (becoming his third chart-topper there, second as a solo artist), topping the charts in Canada and New Zealand, and reached number two on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. It has also reached top 10 status in over twelve countries worldwide, becoming his most successful single to date. In February 2015, "Stay with Me" won the Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year.

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Released January 2014, "Everything Is Awesome" is the Grammy and Oscar nominated song featured in The Lego Movie. It was written by Shawn Patterson, Joshua Bartholomew, Lisa Harriton and The Lonely Island. The single and pop version featured in the end credits of the movie was produced by Mark Mothersbaugh and performed by Tegan and Sara in collaboration with musical comedy trio The Lonely Island.

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I quite liked that Dotan track.  I love hearing what the world outside of North America gets in their charts, cause it's often better than what we get. 

That being said though, here's a trio of popular Canadian tracks that I quite enjoyed in 2014.  I am quite surprised these first two did not chart outside of Canada.  They both sound like the kind of music you would normally see in (at least) the UK Top 40  ...

Tegan and Sara - Goodbye, Goodbye
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Lights - Up We Go
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Hedley - Heaven in Our Headlights
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