like:
-la roux - bulletproof, makes me feel like i am in h&m or some shit but that's ok
-lady gaga - alejandro, this song is silly, i like to mock it and it is fun
-katy perry - teenage dream, california girls, both guilty pleasures

farts (tolerable):
-maroon 5 - misery, if only they were a little less vanilla, they could make some real funk/house/soul
-eminem - not afraid, i wish he didn't have such shit taste in beats so i could take him out of tolerable and put him in 'love' category
-alicia keys - unthinkable, talented girl sells herself short to fit the pop model

shit:
-katy perry - california girls, because it sounds too much like tik tok and snoop dogg is on it
-zac brown band - autotune + country is shit, no matter how subtle the autotune. it would have made tolerable otherwise
-eminem ft. rihanna - love the way you lie, again, i wish he didn't ahve such shit taste in beats and rihanna sucks
-anything that uses a ukulele. ukuleles are not bad themselves, but the way they are used in current pop songs, it's all fucking cheap sentimental garbage

vomited diarrhea:
-everything else

yes

see i have no hopes for usher or will i am. usher, his bread and butter to me was

Usher: You Don't Have To Call

and that period of slick glitzy yet soulful r&b is past. as for will i am (a sellout), i expect him to forget his past and put out generic bland drivel so that he can have lots of money.

but alicia keys, she is just too talented. her music is really great, but it sounds like it's been put through a pop marketing filter. i'd like to hear what would happen if it was just her on the piano, maybe a live backing band, and none of those polished atmospheric bullshit parlor tricks. of course you can't fault her for doing it like that, but then you can't fault will i am for wanting some retirement money either. i guess i am just more interested in what alicia keys is capable of than will i am.

I don't have a problem with Will I Am changing his tastes, that's okay. I just disliked how that song with Usher was so silly and simple compared to other stuff both guys have made this year. I was actually diggin the new Black Eyed Peas stuff. Sure it was different, but whatever.

"OMG" sounds like a joke song you'd find on youtube or some shit yet it's ahead of anything else they've done this year on the charts. It sounds like they got fuckin drunk and just made a really dumbass house song and the record execs just decided that THAT was gonna be the song on the album they were gonna push. Nothing wrong with a novelty song I guess, it just bugs me that the record companies are trying so hard to push songs that are just that: NOVELTIES, songs that you just joke around about or put as yur ringtone to encite laughter when somebody calls you, something that just kinda becomes a comical fad that will die out when the next funny urban jingle rolls around. It seems like the record label would rather push a song that's a joke more than serious and more complex tracks or a whole album just because it works better as a single that people will buy off itunes for 99 cents constantly as a laugh or can sell as a ringtone and make just about as much money as selling a whole cd without having to spend money on promoting the CD or making it. Nobody really listens to whole albums anymore or wants to.

true, there are plenty of pop songs that were the shit back in the 1990's that you don't hear that much anymore, except on one of the retro stations. Which reminds of a scene in the Boondocks cartoon where a rapper, Thugnificent, goes on DJ Vlad's show to promote his new album. DJ Vlad goes on asking about how Thugnificent feels being an "older cat" and responds to some of what he says with words like "whoo talk about old skool" The Thugnificent proceeds to say in "You know my first joint was only four years ago right?" When I look at the Thugnificent character, he embodies kind of the Crunk and Dirty South style that was popular when I was about 14 or 15. Looking at the Top 40 I listened to last night...it seems like the style of music that kids who are 14 or 15 today, while I'm 19 now, are listening to on the pop charts is starting to become more and more of a dubstep, electro, style stuff with a few disco house songs thrown in. When I was just starting Highschool, everybody was into wildin' out with the Dirty South style. When High School was ending, Common's Universal Mind Control and Kanye's 808's and Heartbreak had just come out and now it seems like that Dirty South style is taking a back seat more and more to new skool electro-pop hits and dance songs with 4 by 4 beats that sound like some weird kinda Disco House.

Edit; Not that I still don't hear any dirty south style beats, just that now it feels like everybody's trying to put an electro or some kinda of disco or house twist on their stuff to stay in the game. Which is why I don't get too mad at Will I Am.